alison clancy

Alison Clancy is an interdisciplinary artist integrating music composition, choreography, and film. Her solo performances weave tapestries of electric guitar into expansive, brooding drone-psyche Americana, with recordings spanning trip-hop, shoegaze, dark disco, and ambient experimental work. Her dance films subvert classical ballet technique to illuminate each body's authentic story. The 2022 recipient of the New York State Choreographer's Initiative Award, she also dances at The Metropolitan Opera, where she has performed the longest Principal Dance Solo in Met Opera history. She grew up off-the-grid in rural Northern California; that duality of stress and tranquility comes through in all her work.