Stacy Lynn Smith is a neurodivergent, Black mixed-race interdisciplinary dance artist and improviser, choreographer, director, filmmaker, and Green Circle Keeper at Hidden Water, a restorative justice organization by and for those affected by childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Smith’s practice synthesizes various lineages of improvisational forms, somatics, experimental theater and butoh alongside embodied trauma research.
Smith creates, devises, improvises and performs across disciplines and genres with an array of talented artists including: DeForrest Brown Jr., Anna Homler, Karen Bernard, Thaddeus O’Neil, Rakia Seaborn, Vangeline Theater, Saints of an Unnamed Country, Salome Asega, GENG, Donna Costello, Bradley Bailey, Michele Beck, Jasmine Hearn, mayfield brooks, Josephine Decker, Kathy Westwater, Jill Sigman, Emily Johnson, Joan Jonas, Peter Born and Okwui Okpokwasili. Smith is a 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, Glasshouse Art.Life.Lab 2024 AIR, a 2024 Djerassi AIR and a 2025 Dance and Process (DAP) AIR at The Kitchen.
As Psychic Wormhole (with Alex Romania), recent work includes producing and choreographing Face Eaters at The Chocolate Factory Theater. Psychic Wormhole is working towards completing their debut film, RECKONING, a visceral experimental memoir which grapples with Smith's experiences as a survivor of CSA and Complex-PTSD.
At MacDowell in 2025, Smith worked with Romania on editing their feature film RECKONING which has been in the making since 2019. They sifted through years of footage and took a day to travel to NYC to capture an additional scene for the film. Romania and Smith look forward to submitting RECKONING to film festivals and premiering as soon as editing is complete. The duo also continued to develop a live performance entitled fame hOle; an apocalyptic punk space opera set in a 2014 Prius V disguised as an interdimensional gold Cyber Truck. They began to develop a photo series adjacent to the project in which they plan to drive the "Cyber Prius" and perform across the U.S., photographing the vehicle at great American landscapes, creating a visual commentary on the intertwined state of politics, capitalism, and the climate.
