Here Rests Peggy is a dance that marches along through time, pushes and pulls, smacks you around, leaves, and returns for more.  The performers appear, reappear, and disappear, both physically and emotionally.  Removing their skin of normalcy they embrace exposure and explore twisted humor, violence, and human fragility.  Inspired by Baldwin’s research fellowship in Bogliasco, Italy, Here Rests Peggy is a dance influenced by the constant crashing of the Ligurian Sea, the dramatic and stylized world of German Expressionist film, and the fascinating life and collection of Peggy Guggenheim.

Choreography Ivy Baldwin
Performed by Ivy Baldwin, Lawrence Cassella, Eleanor Smith and Katie Workum
Music Composition Justin Jones
Lighting Design Chloe Z. Brown
Costume Design Walter Dundervill
Set Design Anna Schuleit

Premiere The Chocolate Factory Theater, 2010

“fabulously enigmatic”
– The Village Voice

“Baldwin’s rich, sensitive, and thoughtful choreography and mise-en-scene will keep you more than interested and-probably better-eagerly grasping at tendrils of recognition that strafe off her lovely piece, leaving you in a rapt state of fascination and curiosity for the duration of the show.”
– Culturebot

“Saturated with unspecified drama and hyper-physicalized emotion”
– Dance Magazine

Here Rests Peggy was commissioned by the Chocolate Factory Theater and made possible, in part, by the Bogliasco Foundation Jerome Robbins Fellowship in Dance at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, William and Karen Tell Foundation, IBD Commissioning Circle Members Olivier Rustat and Kathleen Williams & Mark Abel, creative residencies at Dragon’s Egg in Mystic, CT and by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program. Ivy Baldwin Dance is a 2010 recipient of Building Up Infrastructure Levels for Dance (BUILD), a program of New York Foundation for the Arts.