Rori Smith is a dancer and researcher of bodily experience. Rori uses somatic movement practices and performance art to investigate perception, with a particular interest in hapticity and spatiality. Her work is rooted in feminist theory and new materialism. She holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University and is an interdisciplinary doctoral student in Intermedia and Philosophy at University of Maine. In day-to-day life, Rori works as a movement educator, supporting others in developing greater awareness of how their unique body moves. With Elaine Colandrea, she is co-author of The Elemental Body: A Movement Guide to Kinship with Ourselves and the Natural World, a book of movement explorations on being-with and making-with the living world.
Photo by Phyllis McCabe