Class will begin with a simple, yet vigorous led warm-up designed to bring everyone into collective movement. This incorporates improvisations guided by imagery, tasks and games. We will learn sequences of movement embracing the floor to start and ending up in the air. Molly’s teaching is influenced by her training in Butoh, and a wide variety of contemporary and somatic techniques. Her class is built on the philosophy that dance class is a place to come together as a community while also a place to challenge and care for the body.

Molly McDermott is a dance artist, gratefully performing, creating, and teaching movement in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. She has been working in dance since 2007 interpreting work by a variety of inspiring artists and companies in Vancouver, Edmonton and London. Molly is a collective artist with Good Women Dance Collective alongside her independent projects. She has presented her own choreography at Vines Art Festival, 12 Minutes Max., Nextfest, Mile Zero Dance, New Dance Horizons, Fluid Festival, the Magpie Collection, and Expanse Festival. She had the pleasure of curating the dance presentation at Expanse Movement Arts Festival in 2023. Alongside dance, Molly is a mother of two small humans and welcomes the gentle chaos that comes with balancing motherhood and everything else.

Photo by Armand Bladon