Building Racial Equity in the Arts through Dance
Partnering
The Dance Educators Training Institute
Benchmarks
Seniors Organize with the Arts to Rejuvenate
ClancyWorks Dance Company is a contemporary modern dance company that shifts perceptions through performance!
Our choreographies are powerful, physically challenging and provocative while sensitively human and thoughtfully emotional. Through its many performances, ClancyWorks Dance Company explores human relationships, relevant social issues, cultural identity, and communication patterns within unique partnering and dynamic movement based on architectural constructs, physicality and empowering imagery.
Our Repertory is available for theatrical presentations, festivals, university and collegiate residencies, school assemblies, and events.
If you’re interested in auditioning to dance with ClancyWorks, please contact info@clancyworks.org with a resume and cover letter, and include “Audition” in the subject line.
NOTE: We are always interested in meeting great dancers and future auditionees. Even if you’re not able to join our company in the current season, please do let us know you’re interested and feel free to attend our upcoming auditions and/or events should schedule & space permit.
Arts in Education
At the heart of the unique and dynamic partnering work inherent in our repertory and performances is an underlying message of teamwork, trust and collaboration. These are just a few of the vitally important values that we incorporate as lessons for students from kindergarten through high school (K-12) in our highly successful and inspiring Arts in Education (AIE) afterschool, residency and assembly programs.
Community Engagement
At ClancyWorks we bring our unique technique classes and partnering experiences to our community. This includes open dance classes and workshops as well as programs at senior centers and more. Join us for an exciting, stimulating, and dynamic dance experience!
ClancyWorks Dance Company reaches thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds, bringing high-quality dance performances and programs to the DC metropolitan area.
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Professional Development
We believe that significant growth and change takes place when people are passionate and engaged in their own artistic and professional development. ClancyWorks is dedicated to helping professionals acquire new pedagogical and work strategies, develop new tools and techniques through movement and dance, and stimulate creative ideas and practices. In each professional development workshop, we include our core principles of teamwork through collaboration, increasing cultural awareness, building community and mutual trust, and shifting perceptions through dance.
Our professional development courses can be tailored for the following communities and groups:
DETI is just right for all dance educators, including public school teachers. Join us for a summer dance education experience like no other!
Through intensive workshops, BREA gives participants tools to confront their biases and deconstruct racism in the world around them through dance. Find out more today!
Partner with us to develop specialized events using dance and movement to address issues facing your organization.
Regardless of movement ability, training, or background, we create effective workshop experiences for any and all populations. Contact us today to discuss your needs.
Awards
Events
We host classes, workshops, and community events to help everyone get moving and shift perceptions through dance!
ClancyWorks prides itself on our professionalism in performance, executing physically demanding and visually stunning moves with excellence. We bring that same dedication to excellence to our high-quality teaching for dance students of all levels and offer classes and workshops in a variety of dance styles. Some include Hip hop, Contemporary Modern, Improvisation, Step, Jazz, Partnering, and Latin Dance Forms.
Connecting the Community: A Wheaton Celebration
Get Involved
Looking for ways to get involved with ClancyWorks Dance Company? We have opportunities for volunteering, internships, and jobs.
Keep in Touch
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