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 based in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. She works as a performer, choreographer, and teacher. Molly has been a collective artist with Good Women Dance Collective since 2023 alongside her independent projects. Her choreography has been performed at Fluid Festival, Mile Zero Dance, New Dance Horizons, Vines Art Festival, 12 Minutes Max., Nextfest, the Magpie Collection, Connections//Collisions, and Expanse Festival. Her work continues to tour, with presentations coming up in fall 2026 and spring 2027. Molly is interested in dance that explores specific physical states, creating definitive worlds in which audiences can have personal responses that are often visceral and difficult to put into words. This season 2026/2027, Molly is thrilled to be transitioning into an exciting new role, as the incoming artistic director of Brian Webb Dance Company (BWDC). 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