General Info

ClancyWorks Dance Company is a collective of performing artists directed by Adrienne Clancy. The members of our company have more than seventeen years of dance and choreographic experiences and have held major choreographic, performance, and administrative positions in numerous nationally recognized companies, festivals, and universities.Specific to Clancy's creative process is an exploration of architecturally informed partnering work that is developed with a group of diverse dancers. Her company's approach to partnering is simultaneously dynamic and sensitive ; highly physical yet at the same time extremely human. Central to the mission of ClancyWorks Dance Company is the use of dynamic people partnering in order to exemplify an environment of mutual respect and to create empowering images that embrace diversity and build community.Now in their ninth season as a Maryland based dance company, ClancyWorks is the Company in Residence for the D.A.R.E. Dance Program in Baltimore, MD and conducts Arts Education programs in collaboration with the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore Public School System, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and Fairfax County Public School System. Current projects for the Company and its members include: presenting national and local performances ; conducting numerous workshops to participants of all ages and all levels of ability at national conferences, universities, public and private schools K-12 ; participating in panel discussions ; adjudicating the work of emerging artists ; and coaching youth artists as performers, educators and choreographers. In the past five years that the company has been founded, the members have conducted residencies, performed, and have had Clancy's Work presented in Texas, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Louisiana, Indiana, Illinios, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington D.C., and MarylandEducational residencies around the country. ClancyWorks has successfully completed over 150 residencies structured in a variety of formats to address the specific needs of participating communities. Locations have included Texas, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland.