dance artist
I'm Molly. I’m a 43 year old double gemini with a round face, a toothy grin, and big brown eyes.
I was born and raised on the shores of an inland sea, Pitu'paq (the Bras d'or Lakes) on beautiful Unama'ki (Cape Breton Island) and now live on a country road, on the shores of a great lake, on an island that no seems to call an island.
Over the past 25 years, I’ve done a lot of nice things with nice people; sprained my right ankle six times; offered something of value to some audience members at least some of the time; and (hopefully) made my collaborators laugh in the studio.
I create performance / images / film / texts / etc that propose alternative ways to be inside late capitalist society; art that aims to make us see all we already have and all we can already do and be for each other.
I have always danced and continue to do so, though what that looks like is evolving.
In the space between, I marry people, hang out with animals, read, eat food, think about eating food, look for places to swim, try to lure people to our new home in the County, and work on building a forest.
I am truly grateful for the opportunity to make a life on the rich territory of the Anishinaabeg, Wendat, and Haudenosaunee peoples, and now in relation to the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) community of Tyendinaga.
I recognize these nations as the ongoing caretakers of this land, and recognize my own role and responsibility as a settler as one grounded in respect, reciprocity, redistribution of resources, and allied resistance.
© mj 2025