Upcoming & Present

Here Rests Peggy

Premiered and Presented by the Chocolate Factory Theater
October 20-30, 2010

Choreographed by Ivy Baldwin in collaboration with the performers

Performances by Ivy Baldwin, Lawrence Cassella, Eleanor Smith & Katie Workum

Sound Design by Justin Jones with additional music*

Set Design by Anna Schuleit

Lighting Design by Chloe Z Brown

Costume Design by Walter Dundervill

Stage ManagerRandi Rivera

Here Rests Peggy was made possible, in part, by the Bogliasco Foundation Jerome Robbins Fellowship in Dance at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, William and Karen Tell Foundation, IBD Commissioning Circle Members Olivier Rustat and Kathleen Williams & Mark Abel, creative residencies at Dragon's Egg in Mystic, CT. and by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program. Ivy Baldwin Dance is a 2010 recipient of Building Up Infrastructure Levels for Dance (BUILD), a program of New York Foundation for the Arts.

*Sounds borrowed from: Apollo 11, David Bowie, Classroom Materials Co., Claude Debussy, Theresia Demar, Dimension 5, Tod Dockstader, Arthur Greenhall at the Detroit Zoological Park, Lucille Jones, Sammy Kaye, Wayne King and His Orchestra, Paul R. Krause, Henry Mancini, Paul McCartney, Francois Petrini, Prince, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, and Unknown.

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Bear Crown

Premiered March 18-21, 2009 at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC.

Choreographed by Ivy Baldwin

Performances by Ivy Baldwin, Anna Carapetyan, Lawrence Cassella, Mindy Nelson and Katie Workum

Lighting Design by Chloe Brown

Costume Design by Alice Ritter

Sound Design by Justin Jones

Set Design by Mendel Rabinovitch

Bear Crown is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop's Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from the Jerome Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Judy and Steven Gluckstern through the David R. White Producers Circle. Additional support was provided by the William and Karen Tell Foundation, Ivy Baldwin Dance Commissioning Circle Member Olivier Rustat, and the Dugas Family Foundation. Bear Crown was created, in part, through an ArtistNe(s)t Residency, a program of the Swiss Cultural Programme at the George Apostu Cultural Center in Bacau, Romania. The Company's residency in Bacau was made possible by a generous grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Bear Crown was created, in part, with a space grant from BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

Directly inspired by a one month residency in Bacau, Romania, Bear Crown investigates the cause and effect of great transformation - personal, cultural, emotional - and the inevitable deterioration of what is often deemed powerful, beautiful, and grand. Cannons, harmonicas, sounds of warping metal, and Bonnie Tyler ballads accompany the performers of Bear Crown as they show off their muscles, flirt shamelessly on bear crown rugs, skip nostalgically, and manhandle each other a bit too much.

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