Sumi Clements

Co-Founder, Artistic Director, Choreographer

Performances:

About

Sumi Clements received her BFA in Dance from the University of California at Santa Barbara where she was the recipient of the Patricia Sparrow Scholarship & Corwin Award for Choreography. She subsequently moved to New York where she was a member of Peter Kyle Dance and involved in various projects around the city before returning to study at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Upon receiving her MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography, she went on to co-found Summation Dance, showing work at Jacob’s Pillow, BAM, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Judson Memorial Church, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, the 92nd St Y, Baruch College, La Mama, FlicFest at the Irondale Center, and Dance New Amsterdam, among others. She currently dances for Crossman Dans(c)e, has worked with Gerald Casel Dance Company and Sarah Holmes Danceworks, and has performed in the works of Doug Varone, Alwin Nikolais, Kyle Abraham, Andrea Miller and Sydney Skybetter. Sumi is on faculty during the summers at Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop in Colorado, and is a Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) graduate.

Contact:

sumi@summationdance.org