ClancyWorks Dance Company

10/06/2026

Inspired by the question, “What shocks are we absorbing?”, The Resilience Project by ClancyWorks Dance Company examines how we adapt to chaos on a personal, social, and global level. In this photo, dancers Nikki Morath, Devon Steeltoe Wallace, Mathew Heggem, and Alex Alletto twist and leap in various stages of weightlessness, each frozen in the moments before absorbing their own kinetic shocks.

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📸 Nikki Morath, Devon Steeltoe Wallace, Mathew Heggem, Alex Alletto in The Resilience Project, ClancyWorks Dance Company. Photo Credit: Fernando Silva

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10/03/2026

To every dance educator who joined Adrienne's “Supporting Older Adult Rejuvenation” presentation at NDEO 2026—thank you. 💚

We’re grateful for your time, curiosity, and dedication to making dance accessible across generations. Sharing ClancyWorks’ approach to movement with older adults—and connecting with educators who bring their own experiences and perspectives—is what makes gatherings like this meaningful.

This year’s theme, SYNERGY, speaks to the possibilities we create together. Every educator carries the potential to bring new ideas into their community, creating more opportunities for expression, connection, and belonging through dance.

Thank you for being part of that exchange and for the work you do every day.

Attended Adrienne’s session? We’d love to hear one idea you’re taking into your teaching. 👇

09/25/2026

Dance can bring us together at every stage of life. 💜

We’re proud to share that Adrienne Clancy Ph.D., Founding & Artistic Director of ClancyWorks Dance Company, is presenting “Supporting Older Adult Rejuvenation” at the 2026 National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) National Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico!

This work reflects a belief at the heart of ClancyWorks: older adults deserve meaningful opportunities to move, create, and connect.

📅 Tomorrow, Saturday, September 26
🕗 8:00–9:10 AM
📍 Room: Taos

Attending the conference? Join Adrienne for this movement session and help keep the conversation about dance across generations growing.

What role has dance played in connecting generations in your community?

09/22/2026

Every lift begins with trust.

In these excerpts from Love Strings, bodies support, yield, and rise together. As fabric unfolds across the stage, connection becomes something we can see.

Performed as part of ClancyWorks Dance Company’s December 2, 2012 Millennium Stage program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, this work holds a meaningful place in our history.

To perform there is to contribute to a living artistic legacy: a place where distinct voices can be heard and audiences can encounter experiences beyond their own. Dance brings that possibility to life through the simple, profound act of reaching toward another person.

We revisit this performance with gratitude for the artists and audiences who made it possible, and with renewed belief in the arts’ power to shift perceptions and bring people together.

Share this with someone who believes in the strength of connection.



Video Description:

Edited excerpts from ClancyWorks Dance Company’s Love Strings, performed at the Kennedy Center on December 2, 2012. Under blue and violet stage lighting, two dancers lift and turn together in front of a suspended, web-like fabric backdrop. The scene changes to an ensemble moving through partnered rolls and floorwork. Dancers then gather the edges of a large pale, translucent sheet and spread it across the stage. Dark navy borders frame the footage. On-screen text identifies the company, work, venue, and performance date. Three messages appear in sequence: “The beauty of trust.” “The courage to connect.” “The arts bring us together.” Original performance audio accompanies the excerpts.

09/21/2026

The sun rises and sets over a world of different stories. The arts bring those stories together, honoring what makes us unique and uniting us through the humanity we share.

08/31/2026

What can we build when we trust one another?

At ClancyWorks Dance Company, partnering is more than a choreographic tool. It reflects the values at the heart of our work: trust, collaboration, communication, strength, and connection.

In performance, we lean, lift, resist, support, and move together. That same spirit carries into our educational programs, community engagement, and professional development work.

Dance gives us a way to explore how we relate to one another—and how much becomes possible when we are willing to connect.

We don’t just make movement. We build relationships, challenge perceptions, and create space for possibility.

What does trust mean to you?

Share a word or thought in the comments.

Learn more about ClancyWorks Dance Company at www.clancyworks.org

08/28/2026

DETI 2026: The Impact Continues

This year’s Dance Educators Training Institute created space for educators to move, reflect, question, and grow with purpose.

Through cultural exchange, somatic practice, dialogue, and embodied learning, participants left with ideas that will continue beyond the workshop — into classrooms, rehearsals, studios, and community spaces.

Behind every inspired student is an educator who has been supported, challenged, and renewed. DETI helps dance educators grow as mentors and leaders, carrying new ideas, deeper reflection, and transformative practices back to the students and communities they serve.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who showed up with intention — our teaching artists, participants, partners, collaborators, funders, and supporters. Your presence and support helped make DETI 2026 a meaningful experience rooted in culture, care, reflection, and transformation.

Watch the DETI 2026 recap video and see how the work continues.

Teach. Cultivate. Transform.




Alt Text Description:

Recap video for DETI 2026: Dances of Resistance, presented by ClancyWorks Dance Company in partnership with Baltimore County Public Schools and Community College of Baltimore County. The video features dance educators participating in movement workshops, reflection, and cultural exchange through Capoeira, Frevo, Samba, Irish Dance, and Somatic Movement. Text overlays highlight participant reflections about culturally relevant teaching, listening more deeply, asking thoughtful questions, and bringing new ideas back to students. The video closes with gratitude for the teaching artists, participants, partners, funders, and supporters who helped make DETI 2026 impactful.

08/21/2026

What does it mean to truly support another person?

For ClancyWorks Dance Company, partnering is more than a choreographic technique. Through **architecturally informed partnering**, dancers lift, balance, resist, surrender, stack, and build—using physical relationships to explore trust, vulnerability, negotiation, and connection.

Sometimes the architecture is a wall. Sometimes it is a stage structure. Sometimes it is another human body.

Across the ClancyWorks repertory, these relationships ask us to consider not only how we move together, but how we create space for one another without losing our own.

After 25 years, we’re still exploring what can happen when movement becomes a way of seeing relationships differently.



Alt Text Video Description:

A vertical video slideshow presents three archival performance photographs from ClancyWorks Dance Company, highlighting the company’s architecturally informed partnering. In the first image, dancers in red, burgundy, and dark gray costumes perform beside a tall gray brick wall. One dancer is held upside down with her feet pressed against the wall while other dancers support her, and another dancer is lifted diagonally against the wall farther back. The second image shows two dancers dressed in black on a dark stage around a transparent rectangular platform. One dancer sits elevated on the structure while reaching upward as the second dancer, seated on the floor, mirrors the gesture. The final image shows three dancers against a vivid blue stage background, with two standing dancers supporting a third dancer horizontally and upside down across their bodies. The photographs transition smoothly with subtle motion while maintaining their original proportions.

08/20/2026

FROM THE CLANCYWORKS DANCE COMPANY REPERTOIRE

On Taking Steps to Climbing Mountains

Choreography: Adrienne Clancy
Performed by: ClancyWorks Dance Company
Dancers: Glenna Blessing, Aaron Draper, Adriane Fang, Mathew Heggem & Allison Cook Pearsall

Albuquerque Journal hailed it as a “top-notch technical and dramatic performance.”

A ClancyWorks Dance Company repertory work exploring inventive partnering, shifting perspectives, and the ways we navigate the personal, institutional, and ideological obstacles placed before us.



Alt Text Description:

A shortened performance clip from ClancyWorks Dance Company’s On Taking Steps to Climbing Mountains shows five dancers moving among several tall wooden ladders on a dark stage. The dancers climb, reach, balance, and weave around the ladders at different heights, repeatedly shifting their positions and relationships to the structures and one another. Warm stage lighting highlights the dancers and ladders against the black background as the ensemble creates changing pathways and sculptural formations.

08/19/2026