The 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 seventh 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 Maryland

Activities and Accomplishments:

Educational 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.

Performances These have been in traditional, non-traditional, and site-specific venues; architecturally and culturally informed lecture-demonstrations; and collaborative showcases. In one performance that highlights the blending of physical movement with that of the built environment and demonstrates the risk-taking capacities of the dancers, the company members, working inside an imposing church structure, jumped, glided, stretched, melted, and hung from openings 12 feet off the ground.

Collaborations The company frequently presents festivals, like the "Creative Convergence Festival" to create networking possibilities among other arts groupgs. Also, check out SquidWorks to find out more!

Education of youth about healthy alternatives to violence and drugs. ClancyWorks is the Company in Residence for the DARE® (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Dance Program in the public schools of Baltimore, MD. The workshops are co-taught by ClancyWorks Company members and Baltimore County Police Officers.

Arts Education programs The company provides master classes, workshops, after school programs, school assemblies, and youth mentoring for Montgomery County, the Baltimore County, and Fairfax County public schools.

Intensive workshops Workshops include participants of all ages and all levels of ability and highlight the company's mission by combining artistic creation, community building, and education.

Other work Panel discussions; adjudicating the work of emerging artists; coaching young artists; facilitation training; and participatory key-note addresses.

ClancyWorks company members think outside of the box. Out of the ordinary workshops include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Progressive Dance Techniques such as Contemporary Modern, Break Dance, Ballet with BodyWork, Contact Improvisation into Performance Partnering
• Improvisation and Creating Spontaneous Performances
• Composition and Crafting Choreography
• Site Specific work
• Teacher and artist training
• Partnering on an organizational level
• Arts in Education (connecting art to standard curriculum)
• Arts and Activism
• Arts Facilitation and Feedback
• Writing about Dancing
• Relaxation, Recuperation and BodyWork techniques