French Clements
Marketing & Communications Specialist
I trained as a professional dancer before an early career in arts administration and performance, but I’ve always been fascinated by public spaces and urbanism in general. So working with designers is the best of all possible worlds. It’s also an honor (and a long-held dream) to work for a firm that creates performance venues, which have been so central to my personal and professional development.
education
Fordham University at Lincoln Center, B.F.A. in Dance
started at els
2020
favorite building
Ricardo Bofill’s home/studio (as profiled in a Nowness video)
favorite sport/physical activity
Mountain biking, dance clubs, chasing my kid daughter all over a grassy lawn
inspirations
Precision, complexity, randomness, consistency
spare time
Riding mountain bikes (inevitably followed by eating a pastry/burrito/carb)
best vacation
In the summer of 2004, following an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, I wandered across northern Italy by train and by foot, sleeping wherever I found shelter and dining with random fellow wanderers before taking the night ferry to Barcelona for further adventures. What freedom!
favorite movies
American Movie, Uncut Gems, Cronos, anything by Frederick Wiseman or Agnès Varda