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Molly Daly is a teacher and Ballet Mistress at Peoria Ballet. She is also an adjunct dance instructor at Illinois Wesleyan University. She is a certified teacher with ABT's National Training Curriculum for Pre-Ballet to Level Three and has an IM=X Pilates certification. She teaches many levels of ballet, as well as contemporary and jazz.

She stages ballets for internationally acclaimed choreographer Septime Webre. She has set his work on Washington Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet, Ballet Austin, Sacramento Ballet, Diablo Ballet, Dayton Ballet, and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. She has co-choreographed a full-length Coppelia, Cinderella, and Nutcracker for the Peoria Ballet. Molly's choreography has been performed by Peoria Ballet Company, American Repertory Ballet, and at various venues in New York City and Hartford. Molly has also co-choreographed for the Illinois Wesleyan University Faculty Choreographed Dance Concert.

Molly Daly dancing

Molly was a principal dancer in the American Repertory Ballet. She has also danced in Hartford Ballet, Ballet Michigan, Eglevsky Ballet, and as a scholarship student, performed with Pennsylvania Ballet. Molly has danced in major works by Septime Webre, George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, Alvin Ailey, Choo San Goh, Robert Joffrey, Kirk Peterson, and Kevin O'Day. Some of her favorite lead roles include Juliet (Romeo & Juliet), Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Sugar Plum (Nutcracker), Balanchine's Sanguinic (Four Temperaments), and Waltz Girl (Serenade). Molly has performed in the world-renowned Vail Dance Festival "International Principal Dancer's Pas de Deux." She was one of 12 principal dancers from around the world, where she danced three different pas de deux. The following year, the Vail Dance Festival asked her and her partner to perform Septime Webre's Romeo and Juliet Balcony Pas De Deux for the grand opening of the Beaver Creek Theater.

Molly has trained on scholarship in the professional division at the Pennsylvania Ballet, with the Milwaukee Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. She has also studied acting at the T. Schreiber Studio and Atlantic Theater Company in New York.