Adrienne Clancy, Founding & Artistic Director of ClancyWorks Dance Company, is a proclaimed “wizard of invention,” by the Washington Post. As a “tour de force of unpredictable partnering,” her work explores architecturally informed partnering developed amongst diverse artists. Assured to be simultaneously dynamic yet extremely human, the choreography exemplifies an environment of mutual respect and creates images that embrace diversity and community awareness.
Over the past twenty years, Clancy has choreographed and performed throughout the world: She was the youngest choreographer to present at the Suzanne Dellal International World Dance Competition in Tel Aviv; and, the sole student choreographer to represent the United States in the International College Dance Festival in Kobe, Japan, which toured to Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Adrienne has taught and performed at the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia and toured her work along side the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (LLDX). As a member of LLDX Clancy has taught modern dance techniques for the Dance and Community Partnerships Workshop at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Her choreography has been performed internationally in England, Colombia, Paraguay, Israel, Mexico, Japan, and Poland.
Clancy was a member of the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company; a Rehearsal Director, Project Director, and Company Member for the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; a principal dancer for Nora Reynolds Dance and RoCoCo Modern Dance Company; and guest artist for: Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Victoria Marks, Bill Evans Dance Company, Paradigm Dance Company, Doug Hamby Dance, and Cathy Paine Mixed Media.
Clancy is currently working on a PhD and recently completed her MFA in Dance from Texas Womans University. Clancy holds a BFA in Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and a MA in Dance, History & Criticism from University of New Mexico. Clancy continues to write, most recently penning the foreword for Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a book written by Bill Evans and published by the National Dance Association in 2006. In addition, she has been commissioned to write for the Oxford University’s International Encyclopedia of Dance. She currently teaches at American University (DC), George Mason University (VA), and the University of Maryland College Park (MD).
As the Founding and Artistic Director, Adrienne Clancy dedicates her artistic life to ClancyWorks: a Maryland based non-profit company consisting of highly qualified local and national artists. Through the motto: Shifting Perceptions Through Performance and Education, ClancyWorks uses the arts as a vehicle to develop mutual understanding and advance positive social action.
