Molly Mae MacGregor moved to New York from her hometown of Austin, TX in 2004. She received her BA in Theatre & Dance from UT Austin (2003) and her MA in Dance Education from NYU (2010), as well as the first annual Martha Hill Dance Fund Young Professionals Award (2004) and the Outstanding Achievement Award in Graduate Dance Education from NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development (2010).
For the last several years, Molly has been building a Dance/Creative Movement curriculum & methodology and teaching at public schools here in New York. She teaches in a range of other capacities throughout the city as well, and she is delighted in recent years to have joined the 92nd Street Y faculty and teaching artist communities as well as the Gibney Dance Guest Artist Program. She is greatly enjoying working with a varied population of dancers of all ages who engage with dance/movement as anything from play to practice to profession.
Molly also acted as the 2014 Program Assistant for Young Dancemakers Company, a free summer dance intensive for select NYC public high school students from across the five boroughs. YDC is run out of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale and directed by Bessie Award winner Alice Teirstein.
In addition to teaching, Molly continues to create and perform professionally. She has had the pleasure of dancing and performing with and for some lovely and amazing artists throughout the city. This year marks Molly's sixth season with The Median Movement, the creative project of Doug Varone and Dancers’ Alex Springer and Xan Burley. In 2014 she also enjoyed dancing as a guest artist in Doug Varone and Dancers' Choreographic Intensive (CHIN) project.
Her own work has been presented at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange and at Judson Church. In 2011 Molly acted as Movement Director for Brecht’s Life of Galileo, directed by Ian R. Crawford and presented at Fordham University & Lincoln Center. Recently she has also been found dancing in a music video for Clay Wilson, in the Noah Baumbach film Frances Ha and in the web series "Winners." She also enjoys writing and creating short video dances.