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Magpie Festival Class: Molly McDermott | Contemporary Dance Practice

Thursday, July 16, 2026
11:30am to 1:00pm

Part of: The Magpie Collection: A Dance Festival

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Organized by: Mile Zero Dance

July
16

Class will involve a simple, yet vigorous led warm-up, improvisational tasks, and sequences of movement. We’ll both embrace the floor and move through and into the air. Molly’s teaching is influenced by her training in Butoh, and other contemporary and somatic practices. We will sweat.

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.

Sugar Swing Ballroom

10019 80 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T6E 1T4