Molly Kay joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota Dance Program as their tap professor in Fall 2020 and has taught tap dance for youth and adults at Ballare Teatro Performing Arts Center. She currently is a company member of Flying Foot Forum, and Kaleena Miller Dance. She is also a tap and percussive dance performer, choreographer, and teacher. ![]() She was awarded an honorable mention for her solo in the competitive Flamenco Certamen USA in NYC, NY 2021. Molly Kay is mentored by Susana di Palma, Artistic Director for Zorongo Flamenco where she is also a company member. Molly Kay is an emerging flamenco dance artist. Louis Park, MN as a Therapeutic Recreation Specialist in their rehab unit, assisting patients with their emotional, spiritual, and social needs while isolated from their communities in therapy. She recently worked at Sholom Home West in St. Her work as a Therapeutic Recreation Specialist grounds her in the community and brings her dance experience together with her passion to increase the quality of the lives of the elderly living in group settings in her community. She is a 2009 summa BFA graduate of the University of Minnesota- Dance Program. Molly Kay Stoltz is a Twin Cities dancer, choreographer, teacher, customer service specialist, and Therapeutic Recreation specialist living in Saint Peter, MN. In 2017 she was awarded a McKnight Fellowship for Choreography and a Minnesota Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. As an individual artist, she has received grants and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, National Endowment for the Arts, The McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and The Bush Foundation. She currently teaches in The Cowles Center’s Distance Learning Program and directs classes at the Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theater School. The Center is embedded within The Florida State University School of Dance and offers unparalleled opportunities for contemporary choreographers to hone their artistic practice and develop new work inside a creative community.Ī devoted teacher, di Palma taught in the University of Minnesota, Department of Dance for over 25 years. As part of di Palma’s 2017 McKnight Fellowship for Choreography, she was in residency at MANCC, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, in Tallahassee, Florida to further the development of this new contemporary flamenco duet. MANCC is the only national center for choreography in the world located in a major research institution and operates from one of the premier dance facilities in the United States. Her most recent work Casita on homeless women premiered as part of What The Moon Sees at the Lab Theater, April 2019. “ Susana di Palma’s sense of defiance is ferocious, enigmatic, poignant…” – Seattle Times “ Di Palma, who founded Zorongo Flamenco in 1982, remains the most tantalizing dancer to watch, with a passion so fierce that smoke emanates from her“- Mpls StarTribune, July 2015 In 2017-18 di Palma recreated two works that speak to today’s contemporary concerns her children’s puppet show Tra Ti Ti Tran Tran Toro about immigration and Garden of Names on political “disappeared.” In 2018 she choreographed and danced in Mill City Opera’s Carmen. Her Lorca’s Women won the Sage Award for Most Outstanding Choreography. She has introduced new work for the past seven seasons at Cowles Center for the Performing Arts in Minneapolis. Pica was performed on their national tour and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2012, she was a curator for the Walker Art Center’s “Choreographers’ Evening.” In 2016 she was invited to choreography Pica, a work on Picasso for the New York company, Noche Flamenco. She choreographed Lorca’s Blood Wedding for the Guthrie Theater and Bethany Lutheran College. Paul’s O’Shaughnessy Theater’s “Women of Substance Series,” and the Walker Art Center among other venues. Her works have been presented at New York’s Joyce Theater, Miami’s Florida Dance Festival, St. Di Palma’s full-length theater-flamenco ballets include Flor, Garden of Names, Gernika, Sadja, First, I Dream, La Virtud Negra, Encuentros, Tales of the Black Legend, Zorro in the Land of the Yellow-Breasted Woodpecker, Convivir, and Los Caprichos among others. Its mission has been to create innovative theater works that expand on traditional flamenco to reflect on controversial contemporary issues. ![]() In 1982 she founded Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theater in Minneapolis. She performed throughout Spain in tablaos and with companies such as La Singla. Having studied Spanish dance and flamenco since childhood, Susana di Palma continued her apprenticeship with maestros such as Ciro, Manolo Marin, Manolete, Carmen Mora, and Merche Esmeralda. ![]() Choreographer, Artistic Director of Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre & Dancer
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