Mammal Mountain, a multidisciplinary dance commissioned by NYU Skirball (premiere April ‘26), includes long-time collaborators: performers Eleanor Smith, Anna Adams Stark, Darrin Wright, Saúl Ulerio, and choreographer Ivy Baldwin. It takes inspiration from Ken Russell’s 1969 film adaptation of D.H Lawrence’s Women In Love, specifically Gudrun’s “dance with highland cattle”—a ritual between woman and animal, of seduction, submission, fear, sensuality, aggression. Visually, the dance incorporates mammalian hides, specifically cows—used as second skins, physical terrains, paintings, weapons, and objects of desire. Ivy Baldwin is a NY-based choreographer, performer, educator, and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance, Inc. (est. 1999). Commissions include BAM Next Wave, NYLA, Chocolate Factory, Abrons Arts Center, Joyce Theater (Joyce Unleashed), American Dance Institute, The Philip Johnson Glass House, Russel Wright Design Center, and LaMaMa. Select awards include Guggenheim, Bogliasco and Jerome Foundation Fellowships, Gibney DiP, NYFA, LMCC, 92Y, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Movement Research. Her work has been presented by The New Museum, MASS MoCA, REDCAT, and Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago, and internationally in Germany, Romania, and Italy.
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