About Hadley

Hadley Smith is a New York based dance artist. Her work is concerned generally with systems of order and categorization, and in particular with the schematics of gender. Through visceral and absurdist actions she seeks to disorder the structures of power written upon our bodies. Hadley’s choreographic practice is strongly influenced by her work in other disciplines; her slide-shows, meditation tapes and zines are all accessible on this site. 

Hadley has presented work throughout the New York area, including shows at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Panoply Performance Lab, CAGE and Dance New Amsterdam where she was a 2012 RAW Materials Artist. In 2015 she was selected to present on her performative research practice, Radical Taxonomies, during York University’s Accidental Archive symposium in Toronto, CA. In 2016, she graduated with an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. In 2018 she presented Tanogram a performance/practice at The New Gallery and Secret Project Robot. Currently she is making a new dance - and reactivating the choreographic archive 1000 Moves for Back Up Dancers after a COVID imposed hiatus.