In Our Image
Performance art · Set design
Videos / projections — Isaac Smeele
Dance · Performance art · Curation
Adalia Fae
Smith
About
Adalia Fae Smith is a dancer, choreographer and performance artist based in Montréal.
She makes her own pieces — Andy in the Sky, Cherry Void, In Our Image — choreographing and directing them, and designing the sets they are performed in.
She also dances in other people's work: in choreography by Brie Ana Laboucane, Fathom and Spring Ephemeral, and as an interpreter in Multitud by Tamara Cubas. Her work has been projected at Place des Arts and performed on the Grove stage at Shambhala.
The same practice runs into painting and film — beeswax, oil and found objects on wood panel, and live performance for the camera, including river butoh on the Saint Lawrence for Amer Rashid's film.
Curation is part of the practice too: she works with the same small group of collaborators from piece to piece — Isaac Smeele on video and editing, Brie Ana Laboucane on choreography, and the dancers who carry the work.
Selected works
Andy in the Sky
Choreography · Direction
Dancers — Léa Bonenfant, Sari Hoke, Kaya Sinclair-Thomas, Adalia Fae Smith. Videography — Isaac Smeele, Dylan Gitalis. Editing — Isaac Smeele, Naomi Moon
Fathom
Producer · Dancer
Choreography — Brie Ana Laboucane. Also performed as a solo at Shambhala, Grove stage
Cherry Void
Choreography · Direction
Dancers — Zoë Clémentine, Juniper Fae. Editing — Isaac Smeele
Festival 2024
Festival film
Mama's Nelken 2020
Direction · Costume · Interpretation
After Pina Bausch. Projected at Place des Arts
Index
10 works
- 2026Spring EphemeralDancerChoreography by Brie Ana Laboucane, ESC. Photos — Alec Turgeon.
- 2026Glitter Glitter Dew that GathersPerformerRiver butoh — live performance with the Saint Lawrence River, in the film by Amer Rashid.
- 2025We Are Still NothingCo-creatorPainting — beeswax, oil, polymer clay, found objects on wood panel. 38 × 48 in. Co-created with Isaac Smeele.
- 2024FestivalFestival film
- 2020Mama's NelkenDirection · Costume · InterpretationAfter Pina Bausch. Projected at Place des Arts
- —In Our ImagePerformance art · Set designVideos / projections — Isaac Smeele
- —Andy in the SkyChoreography · DirectionDancers — Léa Bonenfant, Sari Hoke, Kaya Sinclair-Thomas, Adalia Fae Smith. Videography — Isaac Smeele, Dylan Gitalis. Editing — Isaac Smeele, Naomi Moon
- —FathomProducer · DancerChoreography — Brie Ana Laboucane. Also performed as a solo at Shambhala, Grove stage
- —Cherry VoidChoreography · DirectionDancers — Zoë Clémentine, Juniper Fae. Editing — Isaac Smeele
- —MultitudInterpreterBy Tamara Cubas. Photos — Charles William Pelletier, Vivien Gaumand.
