Ivy Baldwin/Ivy Baldwin Dance Keen [No. 2] Abrons Arts Center, NYC Photo by Maria Baranova
Ivy Baldwin is a NY-based choreographer and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance. Since 1999, she has created 17 works for the Company, including 10 evening-length. Baldwin has been commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2014 BAM Next Wave Festival), Philip Johnson Glass House, The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Barnard College, The Wooden Floor, Dixon Place, and Dance New Amsterdam. Baldwin has received numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (Choreography, 2014), Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Marble House; and been an Artist-in-Residence with BAM (2014 BAM Fisher AIR), Movement Research, ArtistNe(s)t (Romania), Sugar Salon, The Yard, and Abrons Arts Center. Baldwin has received funding from the Jerome Foundation, William and Karen Tell Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Dugas Family Foundation, Lumpkin Family Foundation, Puffin Foundation,The Fund for Good Work, and Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; and creative residencies from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mount Tremper Arts, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), American Dance Institute, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Kaatsbaan International Dance Center/NY Dance Force. Her work has also been presented by Tanz im August Festival/Danceoff! (Germany), Dans Contemporan International Festival (Romania), REDCAT (CA), Irvine Barclay Theater (CA), American Dance Institute (MD), The Painted Bride (PA), Appel Farm Performing Arts Center (NJ), Lincoln Center Out of Doors/Danceoff!, Symphony Space, 92nd St. Y, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Danspace Project, P.S. 122/Catch/COIL, and La MaMa, E.T.C. Baldwin worked with choreographer David Neumann (2014-2016) on An Octoroon and Futurity (SoHo Rep) and Hagoromo (BAM, ADI, Pocantico Center). Baldwin has been a guest artist/faculty at The New School/Eugene Lang, Barnard College, Hunter College, Rutgers University/Mason Gross, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts, Iowa State University, and Long Island University. She is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts (MFA).