Under the artistic name Unity Atlantic, Deirdre Molloy creates film, music and performance collaborations. Unity is a container for collaborations that flow from her PhD research. Thanks to EU funding, Martiniquan dancer Aurélie Capelle-Sigère joins Unity for the Black Atlantic Space-Time production through 2023-24. Transdisciplinary co-producers include Code Your Future (UK) and Gerador (Portugal) for the Project Manifest exhibition at L'Atelier in Nantes, France from 19.09 to 06.10 this year.Molloy uses social dance ethnography and digital design to research Black Atlantic identity. Visiting the USA this year with Erasmus+ funding, she participated in Blues, DC Hand Dance, DC Bop, and street dance communities. Academic highlights of 2024 include presenting a paper at the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance at Duke University, at SLIPPAGE dance lab of Northwestern University and at Droppin’ Science hip hop conference in Cork. In 2022, Molloy affiliated with CIPHER ERC and won the Danijela Memorial Award for interdisciplinary innovation in Film, Music and Theatre. Molloy's practice-as-research follows degrees in Psychology (2.1 TCD), Multimedia (1.1 DCU) and Ethnochoreology (1.1 UL). Molloy is a PhD candidate at UCC in cotutelle with University of Toulouse, France. Her research website is designed to platform dance culture-bearer voices: https://decodenoir.org
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