Rori Smith

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Rori Smith is a dancer, somatic movement educator, and researcher of bodily experience based in midcoast Maine. She holds a master’s degree in Dance from Temple University and is currently a doctoral candidate in Art & Philosophy at the University of Maine. Her work intersects environmental performance art, ecosomatic movement practices and phenomenology. Rori has been immersed in Continuum since 2014, a practice that grounds her in the subtlety of each lived moment. She joined the Continuum Teachers Association in 2023. In 2022, Rori and Elaine Colandrea co-authored The Elemental Body: A Movement Guide to Kinship with Ourselves and the Natural World. They enjoy traveling to share the book with artists and movement researchers worldwide. In service to the somatic arts community, she acts as Associate Director for Watermark Arts.

Somatic practice, notably Continuum, opens a space in which the boundaries of the body are both honored and dissolved into the whole of experience. This space invites deep listening, pausing, adapting to change, sussing out when to yield and when to move forward in the path of resistance. Skills for the creative process and for knowing the layered nature of being human.