Mollie began her ballet training in North Carolina with Melissa Hale-Coyle, Claudia Folts, Lisa Leone, and Rebecca Massey. She attended various summer programs, including the Joffrey Midwest Workshop, the Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory, and Atlanta Ballet. Sansone’s professional career began with Nashville Ballet in 2004. She performed many works by renowned choreographers during her nineteen-year tenure, such as Paul Vasterling, Jirí Kylián, George Balanchine, Christopher Bruce, Salvatore Aiello, Val Caniparoli, Cathy Marston, and Stephen Mills. Her most notable lead roles include Juliet in Vasterling’s Romeo and Juliet, Lizzie in Vasterling’s Lizzie Borden, the Survivor in Mills’ Light, The Chosen One in Aiello’s Right of Spring, the Turning Girl in Balanchine’s Who Cares? and the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Dew Drop Fairy in Vasterling’s Nashville’s Nutcracker.
Sansone has taught dance for over two decades, for a wide variety of age groups, experience levels, and arts organizations. Notably, she was a School of Nashville Ballet faculty member. She also taught classes for Nashville Ballet’s main and second company. As a choreographer, Sansone premiered her first original work for Nashville Ballet 2 in 2019. She choreographed other works on the main company such as Bootleg Sugar Lips and Fortitudine, among others. She later became Resident Choreographer of Nashville Ballet in 2022. In the summer of 2023, she attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ Choreographic Institute. As a répétiteur, Sansone set Vasterling’s Cinderella on Sacramento Ballet. Sansone is currently adjunct ballet faculty at UNCSA.