 ClancyWorks Dance Company: Classes & Workshops
Adrienne Clancy and Members of the ClancyWorks Dance Company are available for traditional dance technique classes in contemporary modern, jazz, ballet as well as their trademark Partnering into Performance Workshops.
Partnering into Performance Class description
Adrienne Clancy and members of the ClancyWorks Dance Company pride themselves on their interest to teach to a wide array of individuals with a range of experiences with dance from the novice to the professional dancer. Important in Clancy's vision is the ability of the individual to remain human as they learn to strengthen their dance technique. In order to help participants develop a greater understanding of the class lessons, we engage the students through dialog that helps to deepen the awareness of the individual as well as the multiple implications of the dance exercises.
The Partnering into Performance Workshop will be a chance to learn more about Adrienne Clancy and her company's approach to partnering and using partnering and improvisational principles as a baseline for choreography. Clancy's approach to partnering blends concepts based on contact improvisational techniques, structural ideas based on architectural concepts, partnering principles learned from her experiences as a company member of the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company and community building principles based on her experience working with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.
Although each workshop is tailored specifically for the topic addressed and the needs of each population, you can count on a general teaching pedagogy that will be incorporated into every class session.
In all Partnering into Performance Workshops Members of ClancyWorks will:
- Lead a warm-up that will educate the participants about the importance of refining, strengthening, respecting and caring for a dancer's tool, the human body.
- Structure improvisational exercises that will help the participants to connect to one another, build community connections and trust in the group that will highlight mutual respect and understanding of different ethnic and racial cultures while at the same time teach the participants about craft and composition in choreography.
- Use the above structures to help the participants strengthen their unique artistic voice, build self esteem and confidence while empowering the participants to develop their understanding of choreography and collaborate to create compositional sequences
- Provide time in each workshop for the participants to share their work through immediate informal performances and to participate in constructive artistic feedback.
- Evaluate and analyze the work in order to deepen the participant's understanding of the formal elements involved in the compositional craft of choreography while at the same time strengthen the connections to one another as members of a community.
- The format of the feedback utilizes an affirmative manner of supporting the participant's work with the audience highlighting the positive aspects of a dance viewing and framing their feedback in relation to the dance improvisation and choreographic concepts taught in each workshop and how the work relates to other life skills and practices.
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