Featured Artists
Molly McDermott ·
Molly has worked in dance since 2007. She is a collective artist with Good Women Dance Collective 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. Alongside dance, Molly is a mother of two small humans and welcomes the gentle chaos that comes with balancing motherhood and everything else.
Urge
Urge is a 30-minute solo performed and choreographed by Molly McDermott. It features music by DakhaBrakha and additional sound design by Will Scott. It is a duet with a jacket, or maybe a ghost. The work plays with gesture, instinct, and physical memory, revealing what lives in the body, what might be passed on to it. The jacket dances, conjuring up images of a ghost or the fragments left behind by someone no longer with us.
Together both jacket and performer explore shadows, darkness and absurdity. The two merge and separate allowing both the surreal and distinctly human to appear simultaneously. An oddly specific physicality is shared between the garment and the body wearing it.