Cindy Cummings

Cindy Cummings is an American-Irish choreographer 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. She pursued studies in dance and theatre at the University of Oregon, and in New York City. She has been based in Ireland since 1990, and her first Irish performance was in Zero Crossing at the Dublin Theatre Festival that year. 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." She acted in the film We All Come From Somewhere She has performed as part of a trio known as The Vintage. 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. Cummings now resides in County Kilkenny. She sometimes works as a river guide in Montana.