Ann Sofie Clemmensen’s choreographic enquiry is an ongoing exploration of the tension produced between a body in action, the space it occupies, and the time in which it exists. This artistic interest is sustained by her profound curiosity about movement and the moving body’s creative potential. Her creative process involves improvisation and task-solving as tools to create movement material for dance—foregrounding an atmosphere of playful curiosity in which every single joint offers its own specific possibilities, and where rhythms, dynamic qualities and mutual relationships with space and external forces are recognized and translated into structured movement phrases. Her movement vocabulary embodies rhythms of fall and recovery with a keen sense of the interplay between weight and weightlessness, along with an embodied curiosity juxtaposing abstract and linear bodylines. While everything is about the body and textured abstraction and multi-layered movement, her work seeks to propose an interchange that can be meaningful to the audience.

Ann Sofie Clemmensen, native of Denmark, is an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Dance. Ms. Clemmensen holds a BA from the Norwegian College of Dance, a first-class honor post-graduate degree from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK) and an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University. Her choreography has been presented at the Davison Theater at Riff Center and the BalletMet Performance Space in Columbus OH, the Louis Armstrong Theatre in Allendale MI, American Dance Festival (ICR), Ullens Contemporary Dance Center in Beijing China, Movement Research at Judson Church, and other venues. Her creative research has received support from the US Embassy in Copenhagen, Columbus Dance Fellowship, and OhioDance. Residencies include Dance All Year Long (Odense, Denmark), American Dance Festival (IRC), Grand Valley State University, and Old Dominion University (VA).