Jacorey Moon | Digital Marketing Associate
December 1, 2023
Adrienne Clancy Ph.D., M.F.A., M.A. (Director) is Founder of ClancyWorks, a non-profit performance company based in Maryland. Clancy has been choreographing professionally for the past twenty years, and has earned a reputation as the “wizard of invention,” from the Washington Post. Her choreography has been presented across the United States and internationally in: England, Israel, Japan, Israel, Poland, Mexico and Paraguay. Her participation in international festivals includes: being the youngest choreographer to present at the Suzanne Dellal International World Dance Competition in Tel Aviv (1992); being honored as the sole student choreographer to represent the United States in the International College Dance Festival held in Kobe, Japan (1993) and then extending the tour of her work to include Tokyo and other Japanese cities; having her work tour nationally and internationally (Poland, 1999) alongside the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.
Prior to directing the ClancyWorks Dance Company, Adrienne worked as a company member for the following choreographers: Bella Lewitzky, Liz Lerman, Bill Evans, and Nora Reynolds- Daniel; and performed the works of Bebe Miller, Joe Goode, Victoria Marks, Maida Withers, Gesel Mason, Monstah Black, Jeffery Gunshol and many others. She earned a Ph.D. and an M.F.A. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University, and an M.A. in Dance from the University of New Mexico with an emphasis in Dance History & Criticism. She 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 October 2017, Adrienne Clancy was presented with the MD Council for Dance Award for Outstanding Service Contributions to Dance in Maryland. Additional recent highlights and honors include Dr. Clancy’s presentation at the 2016 TEDx Midatlantic Conference on the power of arts integration and being commissioned to set a dance work on international dancers in the UK (2019). Awards for teaching include receiving the 2014 Montgomery County Executives Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (Education Award), the NDEO’s 2013 Outstanding Dance Educator of the Year Award.
