Adrienne Clancy, Ph.D., M.F.A., M.A., is Founder and Director of ClancyWorks, a Maryland‑based dance company. Called the “wizard of invention” by the Washington Post, she has created work for over twenty years, presented across the U.S. and in England, Israel, Japan, Poland, Mexico, and Paraguay, with early international recognition in Tel Aviv, Kobe, and Tokyo.