Molly Lieber is a dance artist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). Her feminist choreographic work in partnership with Eleanor Smith includes: (gloria rehearsal (excerpt))LIVE (Jane Hotel, 2022), gloria rehearsal (excerpt) (Baryshnikov Arts Center, 2022), Gloria (Abrons Arts Center, 2021, New York Live Arts, 2022), Body Comes Apart (New York Live Arts, 2019, Documented by The New York Public Library), Basketball (PS122 and Baryshnikov Arts Center for COIL 2017), Rude World (PS122 and The Chocolate Factory Theater for COIL 2015), Tulip (Roulette, 2013; Judson Now at Danspace Project, 2012), and Beautiful Bone (The Chocolate Factory Theater, 2012). Residencies and awards: 2021/2022 Artists in Residence at Movement Research, 2021 Jerome Hill Fellowship Finalists, 2020/2021 Jerome Foundation AIRSpace Residency at Abrons Art Center, FCA Emergency Grant for Basketball 2019, 2019 BACSpace Residency at Baryshnikov Art Center, 2018 Family Residency at Mt. Tremper Arts, 2018 Bessie Schonberg Fellows at The Yard, 2018 DiP Residency Artists at Gibney, Featured as one of the “Best Dance of 2017” in The New York Times for Basketball, 2016 LMCC Process Space Residency, 2015 Rosas Summer Studios Recipient, PS122’s 2014/2015 RAMP Artist, 2014 BACSpace Residency at Baryshnikov Art Center, 2013 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award Nomination for Emerging Choreographer, and the 2013 NYFA Fellow Finalist Award.
Molly has worked as a freelance dancer in New York for the last two decades. She received a 2016 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Performance and was featured on the March 2016 cover of Dance Magazine’s Issue on New York’s Freelance Dance Stars. She has performed in works by luciana achugar, Donna Uchizono, Keely Garfield, Neil Greenberg, Maria Hassabi, Juliette Mapp, Wally Cardona, Vanessa Anspaugh, and others. Look out for her soon in upcoming performances by Keely Garfield Dance and Antonio Ramos and the Gangbangers. She has taught dance as an adjunct at the New School, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence, and Connecticut College, and is currently a Distinguished Graduate Student Fellow and MFA Candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with a Certificate in Women and Gender Studies. She works as a Lactation Specialist in Brooklyn, and has two children, Ruby, 5, and Gloria, 2.
[ID: Photo of Molly Lieber standing arching backwards while their arms are outstretched and reaching far behind them like wings. They wear all grey and have short dark hair. ]
