Assistant Professor of Dance
Ballet, Pointe, Choreography
Molly Lynch is currently an Assistant Professor in the Dance
Department, Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of
California Irvine. She teaches ballet, pointe, partnering and ballet
repertory. She is the Director for the National Choreographers
Initiative, an internationally known project to nurture the development
of new choreography. Recently she worked as a Creative Consultant on the
Irvine Barclay Theatre’s New World Flamenco Festival and the
collaboration between Savion Glover and Yaelisa. She also consults on
special projects, creative works, arts management and financial
analysis. She has been a guest master teacher for summer dance programs
and taught ballet, pointe, dance management, and dance production at
California State University Long Beach and Chapman University.
She was the Artistic Director for Ballet Pacifica from 1988-2003.
During her tenure, Ms. Lynch established Ballet Pacifica as Orange
County’s leading professional dance company and one of the area’s top
performing arts organizations. Among her innovative trademark programs
was the Pacifica Choreographic Project. Under Ms. Lynch’s direction, the
company worked with forty emerging choreographers, premiered more than
forty new ballets and restaged some of America’s most beloved classics
by George Balanchine, Antony Tudor and Choo San Goh. She has worked with
choreographers such as Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Ann Marie DeAngelo, Peter
Pucci, David Allan, James Sewell, Colin Connor, William Soleau, Rick
McCullough, Kirk Peterson, Billy Siegenfeld, Paul Vasterling, Stephen
Mills, Trey McIntyre, Jamey Hampton, Charles Moulton, and Grahan Lustig.
Ms. Lynch has also choreographed 22 concert and story ballets, 6
children’s ballets and a full-length production of “The Nutcracker”.
She began her dance training with Lila Zali at Ballet Pacifica before
receiving a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet School and then performing
with the Louisville Ballet. As a fine arts major at the University of
California, Irvine, she studied with such distinguished figures in dance
as Eugene Loring, Antony Tudor and Olga Maynard. Upon receiving her MFA
in dance from UCI, she was named Outstanding Graduate Student—the first
student from Fine Arts so honored. In 1992, Ms Lynch was given the
esteemed Outstanding Alumnus award from UCI and was named one of Orange
County Metro Magazine’s Ten Women Who Make A Difference. She was also
the recipient of the Red Cross Clara Barton Cultural Arts Award and the
Boy Scouts of America Women of Excellence award in 1996. She was the
recipient of the 2001 Choo San Goh Award for Choreography.
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