 |
|
 |
|
|
Adrienne Clancy, Founding & Artistic Director: In the past seventeen years Adrienne Clancy has toured nationally and internationally as a member of the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company; been the Rehearsal Director, Project Director, and a Company Member for the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; performed as a principal dancer for Nora Reynolds Dance and RoCoCo Modern Dance Company; and danced as a guest artist with Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Victoria Marks, Bill Evans Dance Company, Paradigm Dance Company, Doug Hamby Dance, Cathy Paine. Adrienne has been choreographing professionally for the past sixteen years, and has had her work presented internationally in Israel, Japan, Poland, Mexico and Paraguay. She was the youngest choreographer to present at the Suzanne Dellal International World Dance Competition in Tel Aviv (1992) and was honored as the sole student choreographer to represent the United States in the International College Dance Festival held in Kobe, Japan (1993). In the USA Clancy's choreography has been presented in California, New Mexico, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, Texas, and New York. Over the past few years Adrienne has directed many community arts projects, directed both site specific events or formal concert performances, and has led numerous workshops both nationally and internationally in Modern Dance Techniques, Partnering and Contact Improvisation, Choreography, Composition, Collaboration Building Skills, Movement into the Educational Curriculum, and various methods of facilitating artistic feedback sessions, including the Liz Lerman Critical Response Process. During the summer of 2000 she was on faculty at the prestigious Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival for the Dance and Community Partnerships Workshop. Adrienne spent July of 2003 teaching and dancing at the Open Look Festival held in St. Petersburg, Russia. Adrienne taught for two years at the University of New Mexico while she earned a Masters Degree in Dance, emphasis in Dance History and Criticism. In 1991, she received a B.F.A. in Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. Adrienne has been a guest artist and/or has been commissioned to set dance works for Goucher College, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Texas Christian University, Texas A & M University, Essex Community College, Towson University, Carver Center for Arts & Technology, Patapsco Center for the Arts, and the University of New Mexico. She has served on the faculty at Goucher College in MD (2004-2005); George Mason University in Virginia (2003-2004), Essex Community College in MD (2001-2003); George Washington University in Washington DC (2001-2002); University of Maryland Baltimore County (2001-2002). In addition to directing ClancyWorks Residencies, Adrienne is on the faculty at George Mason University (VA) as well as the Fairfax Academy (VA). Adrienne serves on the Executive Committee of Alternate ROOTS as the Treasurer of the organization. Charlotte Sommers, Managing Director, has held management positions with arts organizations throughout Maryland and Washington, DC, most recently as Director of Development at Joy of Motion Dance Center. Previously, she held positions as Director of Development for Imagination Stage, Marketing and Development Director for Young Playwrights' Theater, and Executive Director of the Frederick Arts Council. She has been a grant panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council and has served on numerous arts organization boards. In addition to her arts management consulting work for a wide variety of organizations, Charlotte is a freelance arts journalist whose features and reviews have been published in the Baltimore Sun, Bethesda magazine, Dramabiz magazine, The Washingtonian, and Washington Theater Review. She holds a BA in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University and an MA in Arts Administration from Goucher College. Board of Directors |
||
|
|
|
