Premiere of Keen (Part 2), a new dance by Ivy Baldwin (BF '09, '12)

Choreographer Ivy Baldwin’s latest work, Keen (Part 2), is commissioned by the Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory Theater and The Joyce Theater. This new dance for the Abrons Playhouse builds upon Baldwin’s recent Keen (Part 1) for the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT. Keen (Part 2) is performed by Baldwin, Anna Carapetyan, Eleanor Smith, Katie Workum, and 10 additional NYC-based performers, with a score by Justin Jones, lighting by Chloe Z. Brown, costumes by Mindy Nelson, and set design by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen. Keen (Part 2) grows out of an open-eyed exploration of that which we uncomfortably avoid: the contours of grief — the rites and rituals, spoken and unspoken, public and hidden, age-old and brand-new. Presented as part of Joyce Unleashed, The Joyce’s off-site series of experimental dance, choreographer Ivy Baldwin’s latest work, Keen (Part 2), is co-commissioned by Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory and The Joyce.