Toni Smith, MFA, is a dancer, choreographer, and dance scholar who performed in New York City with the Vanaver Caravan, Debra Wanner, Jeff Slayton, Joyce Morganroth and others. She was the Artistic Director of Toni Smith Dancers from 1979 to 1986. Toni is a Body-Mind Centering Practitioner and an Infant Development Movement Educator and maintains a private
BMC® practice in the Capital Region of New York State. She is a founding member of the NYS DanceForce and Partners in Dance: a Consortium of Capital Region Dance Sponsors and served as the Artistic Director of the National Museum of Dance. She is a 20 year veteran of the Skidmore College dance faculty and serves as the faculty adviser for Summer Dance at Skidmore. Toni is the originator of Adaptive Yoga for Persons with Disabilities. She currently teaches Body-Mind Centering workshops in Upstate New York. Toni currently teaches Body-Mind Centering internationally on Zoom.
