Under the artistic name Unity Atlantic, Deirdre Molloy creates film, music and performance collaborations. Unity is a container for collaborations that flow from PhD research reflecting on Molloy's Bajan-Irish American heritage. Thanks to EU funding, Martiniquan dancer Aurélie Capelle-Sigère joined Unity for the Black Atlantic Space-Time production through 2023-24. Co-producers included Code Your Future (UK) and Gerador (Portugal) for the MANIFEST exhibition at L'Atelier in Nantes, France from in September-October 2024. Molloy uses social dance ethnography and digital design to research Black Atlantic identity. This research took her to Ivory Coast in 2025. On an Erasmus+ funded USA visit in 2024, Molloy danced with Blues, DC Hand Dance, DC Bop, and street dance communities. She also presented research 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 (1.3 UL). Molloy is a PhD candidate at UCC in cotutelle with University of Toulouse, France. Deirdre's research websites are designed to platform Black dance and culture-bearer voices. UNITY ATLANTIC RHYTHM MAP : interactive kinetic heritage journey : co-produced with Gerador / co-funded by Creative Europe: Project Manifest https://unityatlantic.org/
DECODENOIR : Interviews, movies, dance ethnography. https://www.decodenoir.org