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The MCR Interview: Mollie Sansone, resident choreographer for Nashville Ballet, discusses her work
A star on Nashville’s skyline since 2004, when she began her career with the Nashville Ballet, Mollie Sansone has had a remarkable career as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Her most recent work, Wild Swans, a children’s ballet based on Hans Christian Anderson’s story of the same name, is available and free to watch on the Nashville Ballet’s website. Music City Review Journalist Y. Kendall had the opportunity to speak with Sansone about her aesthetics, her dance, and her work with the Nashville Ballet. This is a recording of that discussion.
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Y Kendall is a Stanford-educated musicologist, specializing in dance history who recently earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia University, studying nonfiction writing with Ben Ratliff and Margo Jefferson. Kendall’s diverse works have been published in Alchemy: Journal of Translation, Columbia Journal, Mitos Magazín, The Hunger Mountain Review, and The Salt Collective, among others. Born and raised in Tennessee, Kendall now lives near Nashville, freelancing as a flutist and writer, while caregiving for relatives.
