Ivy Baldwin Dance premieres It’s Only Me, set to an original score by Justin Jones, which explores violence and intimacy and the animal versus human instincts living inside all of us. Inspired by the thought that “If it is only you, then there is nothing for anyone to be afraid of,” It’s Only Me is a dark, intimate, funny, and sometimes dangerous work for Lawrence Cassella, Erin Owen, and Zachary Steel.

Choreography Ivy Baldwin
Performed by Ivy Baldwin, Lawrence Cassella, Erin Owen, Zachary Steel
Music Composition Justin Jones
Lighting Design Carrie Wood
Costume Design Mindy Nelson

Premiere Dance New Amsterdam, 2007

“The sophisticated compositional divergences call attention to the less-controllable personal ones.”
– The New York Times

“If you want to catch a glimpse of where dance and performance are headed, look no further than Ivy Baldwin’s Ambient Cowboy.”
– Gwarlingo

There are a few lovely moments in Cowboy when Baldwin, with her keen eye, captures something ordinary in a way that’s so right it becomes extraordinary.
– The Huffington Post

Ambient Cowboy was commissioned by New York Live Arts DTW Commissioning Fund, and is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation. It was developed, in part, at a creative residency at the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center through a partnership with New York Live Arts, with support from the New York State DanceForce with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program. Ambient Cowboy was made possible, in part, by grants from the Jerome Foundation and the William and Karen Tell Foundation, a creative residency at Dragons Egg in CT., and by Ivy Baldwin Dance Commissioning Circle members Kathleen Williams and Mark Abel, Michael Grossman, Olivier Rustat, Robert and Judith Baldwin, and Smooch Cafe in Brooklyn.