Press

Gone Missing

Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
March 1-4, 2006

"A double bill I saw recently at Dance Theater Workshop (Ivy Baldwin Dance & Kate Weare) can stand for an entire generation of choreographers."

The New York Times: Sunday Arts & Leisure
March 12, 2006
Excerpt from If It's Physical, It's Dance by John Rockwell

"... both women's dances are so smart and so well executed and so full of stimulating invitations for thought..."

The New York Times
March 3, 2006
Excerpt from Secrecy in the Snow, Followed by Desire in the Flesh by John Rockwell

"Still, thinking back over 2006, I remember a few instances of transformation. One is Ivy Baldwin's GONE MISSING at Dance Theater Workshop. The lights came up on performers frozen in snow-covered tableaux, evoking travelers on a large ship drifting into unknown waters, and I was hooked. I wasn't the only one; the focus of this moment commanded a palpable hush from the audience. The quiet mystery of the wintry landscape coupled with the heart-wrenching, pathetic humanity of these under-dressed, under-equipped travelers created a hypnotic environment where punctuating expressions of desperation were continually silenced, as if covered over by a fresh blanket of snow. As some of the lost travelers met icy ends, our view began shifting with clever spatial manipulation taking us under as well as above the frozen landscape. Hints of Russian dialogue further proved the humanity of these wanderers ö connecting us to them at the same time distancing our American ears. This gorgeous, poetic journey was sweet, heartbreaking, and utterly captivating."

Movement Research Online Correspondence
2006, an ongoing retrospective
by Sarah Maxfield

"... a wonderfully haunting dance-theater piece... Baldwin shapes a few images and ideas with clear yet delicate strokes."

"The five amazing performers... speak out loud in terse Russian."

The Village Voice
March 15, 2006
Excerpt from In The Cold by Deborah Jowitt

"Gone Missing traded in simple movement and visual pleasure... through disarming childlike devices, Baldwin simulated the experience of being read a bedtime story..."

Gay City News
March 9, 2006
Excerpt from Storytelling with the Body
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa