Redtail Artist-in-Residence Ivy Baldwin Shares VIdeo Created at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
Redtail Choreographer-in-Residence Ivy Baldwin shares a video from a rehearsal at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) from October 2021. Below Ivy shares a few words about her time at JCAL and her new work in process.
From Ivy Baldwin, November 2021:
Six months ago, after our year-long, unwanted break from live dance, I was finally able to be back in a dance studio again—what a joy! My Redtail Artist Residency at JCAL in Queens began with one week working alone, followed by two weeks with performers Saúl Ulerio and Kayvon Pourazar. Since then, joined by our fourth cast member Katie Dean, we’ve continued to rehearse in NYC, developing Welwitschia (working title), which will premiere in late 2022, commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater, at their beautiful new home, also a part of the increasingly vibrant Queens arts scene.
We’re still in the early development process of this new work. Our process thus far has included exploring concepts of deep time, transmitted evolutionary knowledge, solastalgia (existential distress caused by environmental change), and “The Oldest Living Things in the World”, a project and book by conceptual artist Rachel Sussman. (Sussman makes photographic portraits of organisms that have been alive for 2,000 or more years, presenting a portrait of our planet in peril, yet offering hope that long-term survival is possible.) We’re embracing the challenge of making ephemeral art about existential ideas. These disparate concepts are intentionally structured to collide with each other in the form of movement, sound, images, and narratives.
In lieu of a public showing, I want to share a video of an open rehearsal/showing we did for long-time colleague and dance videographer, Peter Richards on October 20, 2021 at JCAL. In this video link, you will see performances by Saúl Ulerio, Kayvon Pourazar and me (look out for performer Katie Dean in future iterations of this work); Music by Justin Jones; Video recording by Peter Richards.
If you would like to follow or support this project, please visit www.ivybaldwindance.org.
IVY BALDWIN is a NY-based choreographer and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance. Since 1999, she has created 17 works for IBD, including most recently, commissions from BAM, Philip Johnson Glass House, The Joyce Theater, Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory, and Manitoga. Baldwin has received many awards, fellowships, and residencies including from the Guggenheim Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Jerome Foundation, NYFA, MacDowell, Yaddo, MASS MoCA, LMCC, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, and Gibney Dance-in-Process. IBD has also been presented in Germany and Romania, and nationally at Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, American Dance Institute, REDCAT, La MaMa, E.T.C, and New Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Baldwin has taught around the U.S., including Bard College and The New School.