Haunted by whispers and a hovering sense of secrecy that recalls Soviet Russia’s repression, Gone Missing presents five characters wandering through an unfamiliar, ominous forest. Through the dancers’ movements and a stage full of fake snow and a backdrop of twisty pine trees, this dance-theater work suggests snowy storms and treacherous ice and a sense of natural and psychic desolation. Gone Missing is structured as a series of vignettes inspired by Edward Gorey’s darkly witty illustrations and text. Karinne Keithley’s original score integrates Russian folk songs created and performed live by the dancers.

Choreography Ivy Baldwin
Performed by Ivy Baldwin, Lawrence Cassella, Mindy Nelson, Katy Pyle and Jennifer Uzzi
Sound Design: Karinne Keithley
Lighting Design Joe Levasseur
Costume Design the Company
Set Design Joe Powel

Premiere Dance Theater Workshop, 2006

“… both women’s dances are so smart and so well executed and so full of stimulating invitations for thought…”
– The New York Times

“Still, thinking back over 2006, I remember a few instances of transformation. One is Ivy Baldwin’s GONE MISSING at Dance Theater Workshop.”
– Movement Research Online

“… a wonderfully haunting dance-theater piece… Baldwin shapes a few images and ideas with clear yet delicate strokes.”
– The Village Voice

Gone Missing was originally presented and commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop’s Bessie Schoenberg/First Light Commissioning Series with funds from the Jerome Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Karen Stavisky, Andrew Rauhauser, The Field and creative residencies at Dragon’s Egg, Mystic, CT. and Nazareth Dance Academy, Rochester, NY.