Drum Calls | Body Recalls

Deirdre Molloy is a Bajan-Irish-American artist-scholar who uses social dance ethnography and digital design to research Black Atlantic identity. Under the artistic name Unity Atlantic, 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 joined Unity for the Black Atlantic Space-Time production through 2023-24. Transdisciplinary co-producers included Code Your Future (UK) and Gerador (Portugal).
Visiting the USA in 2024 with Erasmus+ funding, Molloy 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 current 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. Her research websites are designed to platform dance culture-bearer voices.