ClancyWorks

The Artist

“When Adrienne Clancy hits a wall, literally or figuratively, she doesn’t retreat. She climbs it.” So says the Washington Post.

As creator-choreographer-dancer of a “tour de force of unpredictable partnering,” Adrienne Clancy leads ClancyWorks performers and audience through one-of-a-kind explorations of architecturally informed partnering developed among diverse artists.

With its enviable 21 year record of success, ClancyWorks company members personify the value of thinking outside of the box. They has presented its work in traditional, non-traditional, and site-specific venues, and as part of culturally informed lecture-demonstrations within collaborative showcases.

Simultaneously dynamic and emotionally perceptive, Clancy’s choreography exemplifies an environment of mutual respect and creates images that embrace diversity and foster community awareness.

Adrienne Clancy

The Artistry

ClancyWorks Dance Company was founded by Artistic Director Adrienne Clancy in 2001. As the company’s Founding and Artistic Director, Adrienne Clancy dedicates her artistic life to ClancyWorks, a Maryland-based non-profit company of highly qualified local and national artists.

Clancy and her acclaimed ClancyWorks have been committed since Day One to meet the increasing public demand for excellence in the performing arts by presenting high quality dance performances and educational programs of the highest order.

Company performances have been presented in Australia, Colombia, England, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania , Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C.

Central to ClancyWorks’ mission is expanding the relevance of dance in people’s lives, by demonstrating how creative movement can be used to solve conflicts, develop community cohesion, improve academic achievement, and promote civic responsibility.

The company is particularly known for its exploration of “architecturally informed” partnering work: a unique way of bringing people together within dance, not only an aesthetic statement, but also as a source of powerful images that embrace diversity and exemplify trust.

Love Strings-ClancyWorks Dance Company from Adrienne Clancy on Vimeo.

Photo Credits: Enoch Chan Photography, Natalia Mesa

Sponsor Opportunities

Special ClancyWorks opportunities offering corporate sponsors broad reach to local and regional cross-generational preferred audiences, their families, their friends, media, and businesses

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The ClancyWorks ASPIRE Afterschool Dance Program: Students in the ASPIRE Afterschool Dance Program have the opportunity to perform in an informal presentation showcasing the knowledge gained during the classes for their peers, teachers, family, and the greater community!

Residencies and Workshops: in-school residency plan based on our highly successful ASPIRE program to help students achieve greater academic knowledge, build community awareness and social skills, improve attendance and focus, and address 21st century learning skills. The program culminates with an informal performance showcase by the students, to demonstrate their knowledge gained during the residency, for family, fellow students, teachers, administration and community members.

Partnering Into Performance: Uses movement exercises and dialogue to demonstrate that partnering with others can help them accomplish greater goals than they could individually.

Choreographic Commissions: Creating dance pieces incorporating ClancyWorks partnering techniques and repertory.

Clancyworks’ Unique Dance Program for Seniors:  offering therapeutic as well as physical benefits, providing a comfortable setting for revisiting and attempting new movements with laughter and socialization to enhance overall quality of life.

“The excitement for movement was incredible. During the workshops, people were moving what they could, many with wheelchairs, walkers, and canes. For many, the performance was their first experience of live dance.” Chuck Thornton, Director of Marketing & Development at B’nai B’rith Homecrest House

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What Others Say 

“Physical and conceptual vigor…Shadows spilled across the stage, bringing mythical dimension.” The Richmond Times Dispatch

“Calmness and fluidity combined with Clancy’s intense physicality… Gravity-defying moves, creative lifts and intricately woven phrases…” Washington Post

“Exciting and vibrant piece of dance architecture…fresh combinations constantly appealing to the eye.”  Albuquerque Journal

“Adrienne Clancy gave partnering new meaning.” Washington Post

“When Adrienne Clancy hits a wall, literally or figuratively, she doesn’t retreat. She climbs it.”  Washington Post

“Spotlight-grabbing moves with fabulous partnering.” Los Angeles Times

“Enter Clancy world. It’s an endless pas de deux, trios, quatre, cinq and six conjured up in mists and shadows by wizard of invention Adrienne Clancy. Dancers project an enchanting quality of selflessness …a tour de force of unpredictable partnering…” Washington Post

“…notable was…the layered aspects of female bonding in ClancyWorks Dance Company’s “Driven [by the female heartbeat].” –Sarah Kaufmann, The Washington Post, 10/9/10 acknowledging ClancyWorks in a review of the 2010 VelocityDC Dance Festival