Dana Salisbury is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans visual art, choreography, and writing, unified by a lifelong investigation into how we perceive, sense, and orient ourselves in the world. Her practice crosses mediums but remains rooted in a fascination with the subtleties of attention and the instability of what we call “seeing.”

She began as a visual artist, developing shaped constructions, spatial investigations, and light-responsive environments. Her transition into performance emerged from a major site-specific commission and led to award-winning collaborations and immersive works presented at experimental venues, museums, and festivals in New York and beyond.

Her growing interest in non-visual perception sparked the creation of Dark Dining Projects, a long-running series of sensory meals served to blindfolded guests in restaurants, museums, festivals, private homes, and international arts spaces. These works examine how trust, vulnerability, and sensory recalibration reshape communal experience.

Building on this exploration, Salisbury developed non-visual dance works that use sound, touch, vibration, temperature, and air currents instead of sight, placing audiences inside the architecture of each performance and transforming their relationship to space, bodies, and one another.

Her writing—published in literary magazines, journals, and venues devoted to art and perception—extends the same inquiry into language, considering perception as an embodied, porous, and often unsettled terrain.

Across all forms, Salisbury creates experiences that dissolve familiar boundaries and invite audiences to inhabit the world with expanded senses and renewed curiosity.