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Adrienne Clancy, Founding & Artistic Director. Proclaimed “a wizard of invention,” by the Washington Post, Adrienne Clancy is a Maryland based dance artist. 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 nineteen 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. In addition Clancy has taught modern dance techniques for the Dance and Community Partnerships Workshop at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. 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 a MFA in Dance from Texas Womans University. In the fall of 2008 she will earn the MFA, and she anticipates completing her PhD in fall of 2009. 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. While earning her Masters, she was on faculty at University of New Mexico and has taught at Goucher College, George Washington University, University of Maryland Baltimore County and She has taught at George Mason University since 2002. 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 ClancyWorks uses the arts as a vehicle to develop mutual understanding and advance positive social action. Charlotte Sommers, Managing Director, has held management positions with arts organizations throughout Maryland and Washington, DC, most recently as Director of Development at Joy of Motion Dance Center. Previously, she held positions as Director of Development for Imagination Stage, Marketing and Development Director for Young Playwrights' Theater, and Executive Director of the Frederick Arts Council. She has been a grant panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council and has served on numerous arts organization boards. In addition to her arts management consulting work for a wide variety of organizations, Charlotte is a freelance arts journalist whose features and reviews have been published in the Baltimore Sun, Bethesda magazine, Dramabiz magazine, The Washingtonian, and Washington Theater Review. She holds a BA in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University and an MA in Arts Administration from Goucher College. Board of Directors |
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