Celeste Snowber

Celeste Snowber, PhD is dancer, poet, writer and award-winning educator who is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Celeste interweaves multidisciplinary forms in her performances and published works and attention to embodied ways of inquiry has been central to Snowber’s scholarly and artistic work for over two decades. Among her books are Embodied prayer and Embodied inquiry: Writing, living and being through the body as well as three collections of poetry. Her most recent book of poetry, The Marrow of Longing, explores her Armenian identity and has been published with HARP Press in Spring 2021. Celeste creates site-specific performances and has been the Artist in Residence in the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden creating full-length performances connecting poetry and dance out of each season. Her forthcoming book, Dance, place and poetics: Site-specific performance as a portal to knowing is coming out with Palgrave in Fall of 2022. Celeste has performed across North America and Internationally in a variety of venues, including concerts, galleries, museums, conferences and outdoor spaces. She can be found dancing between the land and sea or at www.celestesnowber.com.