Cindy Cummings is an American-Irish
choreographer
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...
and contemporary dancer.
She is a member of
Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists.
Early life and education
Cummings was born in
Wenatchee, Washington.
[https://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/members/cummings/] She pursued studies in dance and theatre at the
University of Oregon, and in
New York City.
Career
Cummings began her career in 1986.
She has been based in
Ireland since 1990,
and her first Irish performance was in ''Zero Crossing'' at the
Dublin Theatre Festival that year.
She has worked in theatre, television and film, mostly on collaborative productions.
Her work was described by the Centre Culturel Irlandais as "working on the vulnerable and mutable place of the body within contemporary society using play and humour as tools for creative interrogation."
Plays and interactive performances she has performed in include Jody O’Neill's ''What I (Don’t) Know About Autism'' (the Abbey Theatre),
''Habit Performing'', ''One Night Stands'' with Tommy Hayes,
''The Big Chapel X'' (Asylum Productions at the Abbey Theatre),
''Triur Ban'', ''The Secret Project'', ''Toupees and Snare Drums'', ''Tracing Houdini'' and ''Baby Jane''.
She played Rossa on the Irish children's TV show ''
The Morbegs
''The Morbegs'' is a children's television programme which was transmitted every weekday (and occasionally aired on ''The Den'') in Ireland. The show originally started on 30 September 1996 and ended on 15 May 1998 but continued in reruns until ...
''.
She acted in the film ''We All Come From Somewhere''
and performed an interpretative dance as a TEDx presentation.
Major collaborations have included multi-year work with composer and artist Todd Winkler of Brown University, Connolly and Cleary of Paris, and Jools Gilson and Richard Povall.
She has performed as part of a trio known as ''The Vintage''.
She also tutors, including at KCat in Callan, County Kilkenny, and Inclusive Dance Cork (IDC),
and has also taught or tutored at the Samuel Beckett Centre within
Trinity College Dublin, the
Gaiety School of Acting
The Gaiety School of Acting (GSA) is a drama school located on Essex Street West in Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland. It was founded by theatre director Joe Dowling in 1986.
Organisation and location
The Gaiety School of Acting was founded in 198 ...
and the NAYD.
Her work is also used in courses taught at
Yale University,
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and
Columbia University.
She was for a period co-director of the Fumbally Court Studio in Dublin,
and was in 2014 one of three artists-in-residence at the
University College Dublin College of Science.
Recognition
In 2007 Cummings was elected to the Irish affiliation or academy of artists with a substantial body of work,
Aosdána.
Personal life
Formerly based in Dublin,
Cummings now resides in County Kilkenny.
She sometimes works as a river guide in
Montana.
References
External links
Cummings on Irish Playography*
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Wenatchee, Washington
University of Oregon alumni
American female dancers
American emigrants to Ireland
Irish female dancers
Aosdána members
Contemporary dance choreographers
Irish women choreographers
American women choreographers
American choreographers