QUARRY BY IVY BALDWIN DANCE

Annual Performance - September 21 & 22, 2019

On September 21 and 22, 2019, Ivy Baldwin Dance presented Quarry, a site-specific performance work at Manitoga. Quarry takes inspiration from Wright’s desire to blur lines between outside and inside, nature and the man-made, and from his deep commitment to experimentation with form and material. It seemed vital to Baldwin at that moment in history to examine the arc of humans’ relationship to nature and, through Quarry, to contextualize the lessons of Wright himself - “long before climate change was a presence in every conversation, Wright lived a metaphor in miniature by confronting and resuscitating a ravaged landscape, integrating thoughtful architecture and the loving restoration of its native surroundings.” At the fall premiere, Quarry magnified Wright’s vision and Manitoga’s dramatic variations on scale and intimacy as the audience experienced the property and performers from great distances, overlooking the Quarry, on mossy roofs, and into the surrounding woodlands.

Quarry was choreographed by Ivy Baldwin and featured performances by Katie Dean, Kay Ottinger, Kayvon Pourazar, Tara Sheena, Eleanor Smith, Saúl Ulerio, and Katie Workum. Music composition and sound installation was by Baldwin’s longtime collaborator Justin Jones with musician Lathan Hardy. Costume design by Mindy Nelson and Baldwin, and set construction by Michael Drake. The work was developed during creative residencies at Manitoga, Marble House Project in Vermont, and at Yaddo, Mount Tremper Arts, and Gallim Studio in New York. In April 2020, Baldwin will travel to the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities in Bogliasco, Italy for a month-long Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship in Dance. 

“Baldwin’s wide-ranging imagination and affinity for the surreal lead her down a different path for each new work.” – The New Yorker

“The sorrow of Manitoga is that it was built so long ago and if this had caught on [building with natural materials, and designing in accordance with nature], what a different place we would be in,” says Baldwin “But the beauty here pushes back at that hopelessness. Making art at this moment is hard but fear also pulls out human resilience and hope.” - The Highland Current, September 2019

ABOUT IVY BALDWIN

Ivy Baldwin is a NY-based choreographer, performer, teacher and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance. Since 1999, she has created 17 works for IBD, including most recently, commissions from BAM (Next Wave Festival), Philip Johnson Glass House, The Joyce Theater, Abrons Arts Center, and The Chocolate Factory. Baldwin’s work, Keen [No. 2], wass nominated for a 2018 Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design. Baldwin has received many awards and fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and NYFA, among others. IBD has also been presented in Germany and Romania; and nationally at ADI, New Museum, MASS MoCA and REDCAT. Baldwin teaches around the U.S., including Bard, Barnard College, Rutgers University and The New School. Baldwin holds degrees from North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts (MFA).

ABOUT IVY BALDWIN DANCE

Ivy Baldwin Dance has been presented in New York City by BAM, Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory, The Joyce Theater (Joyce Unleashed), Dance Theater Workshop, New York Live Arts, La MaMa, E.T.C, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival/Danceoff!, Dixon Place, 92nd St. Y, Symphony Space, P.S. 122/Coil/Catch, Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research at the Judson Church, among others, and nationally and internationally at American Dance Institute (MD), Philip Johnson Glass House (CT), REDCAT (CA), Irvine Barclay Theater (CA), Appel Farm Performing Arts Center (NJ), The Painted Bride (PA), Tanz im August (Danceoff!) (Germany), and Dans Contemporan International Dance Festival (Romania). The Company has enjoyed creative residencies at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Mount Tremper Arts, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dragon’s Egg, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

PRESS
Mysterious Excavations: Ivy Baldwin Dance’s QUARRY at Manitoga by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone (Brooklyn Rail, October 2019)
Ivy Baldwin Dance And Manitoga Present The Premiere Of QUARRY by Julie Musbach (Broadway World, July 2019)
Manitoga Summer 2019 and Artist Residencies interview by Sarah LaDuke (WAMC, August 2019)
Quarry Dance by Alison Rooney (The Highlands Current, September 2019)
11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend (The New York Times, September 2019)
Out of Town: Ivy Baldwin Dance by Brian Seibert (The New Yorker, September 2019)

Photography by Maria Baranova: Dancers at Manitoga, Summer 2019; Ivy Baldwin Dance: top row / L to R: Eleanor Smith, Kayvon Pourazar, Kay Ottinger, Tara Sheena; bottom row / L to R: Saúl Ulerio, Katie Workum, Katie Dean