Dark Dining Projects
Dana Salisbury
Dana Salisbury, Creator/Director of Dark Dining Projects, is a multi-disciplinary artist whose investigations span dance, video, language, site-specific performance/installation and visual art.
In 2005, she created Dark Dining Projects offering sensory feasts served to blindfolded guests. These participatory performances take place in restaurants and a wide variety of cultural settings. Many have taken place at Camaje Bistro in NYC's West Village. Other venues include the Art Beyond Sight conference held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC in 2007, the KO Festival of Performance in Amherst, MA in 2008, and The Science Gallery of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in 2010. She has created many private parties; corporate clients have included Benjamin-Moore, Proctor and Gamble, International Flavors and Fragrances, Johnson and Johnson, Kellogg's, Nike, Young Presidents Organization, and Smart Design.
Running parallel to Dark Dining Projects, is her work as a choreographer. Her company, Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums, launched in 2009, creates Unseen Dances, dances for blindfolded audiences. Dancers reveal themselves and the space through sound, scent, touch, temperature and air currents. Audience members are placed within the action and periodically moved, causing shifts in their relationship to the environment, the performers, and one another. Each dance is site- and audience-specific. Based on non-visual perception, this work is also the first dance form fully accessible to the visually impaired.
Additional information can be found at www.danasalisbury.com