Stacy Lynn Smith

Stacy Lynn Smith is a neurodivergent, mixed race/Black performance artist, choreographer, director and Green Circle Keeper at Hidden Water (by and for those affected by CSA), whose practice synthesizes various lineages of improvisational forms, somatics, experimental theater and butoh. Smith has collaborated with an array of talented artists such as: DeForrest Brown Jr., Anna Homler, Karen Bernard, Thaddeus O’Neil, Vangeline Theater (2008-2017), Michael Freeman (2010-2016), Saints of an Unnamed Country, Salome Asega, GENG, Bradley Bailey, Michele Beck, Jasmine Hearn, mayfield brooks, Josephine Decker and more. Member of jill sigman’s artist/activist cohort, Body Politic. Selected by Eva Yaa Asantewaa as part of the curatorial board for Black Womxn Summit. In 2022, Smith has had the privilege of collaborating with thinkdance, Rakia Seaborn, Donna Costello, Kathy Westwater, Emily Johnson, Peter Born and Okwui Okpokwasili. Psychic Wormhole (their research platform) reckons with the devastations of trauma and its relationship to memory and the body, ultimately centering the body as memory-keeper and radical creator through the development of their abstract memoir, RECKONING, a film made in collaboration with Alex Romania. Smith has been awarded a 2022 BAF Community Arts Grant, an upcoming Djerassi Residency and is a 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

  • Artist in Residence
  • 2022 Artist in Residence
  • Fall 2023 MR@Judson Artist
  • Fall 2023 MR@Judson Artist
  • 2022 Artist in Residence
Photo of Stacy Lynn Smith performing BOOM WALK outside at the Williamsbridge Oval in the Bronx. A vintage boom box is balanced on one shoulder while their finger is in their mouth like a fish hook, causing them to spin in wide circles throughout the grass, long box braids swinging as they respond to the recorded cassette track that is BOOM WALK. Photo by Shintaro Ueyama.
ID: Photo of Stacy Lynn Smith performing BOOM WALK outside at the Williamsbridge Oval in the Bronx. A vintage boom box is balanced on one shoulder while their finger is in their mouth like a fish hook, causing them to spin in wide circles throughout the grass, long box braids swinging as they respond to the recorded cassette track that is BOOM WALK. Photo by Shintaro Ueyama.