Biography
Jocelyn Smith is a dance artist, educator, and the Artistic Director of Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company (WCDC). Her performance work includes appearances at the ACDA National Conference at the Kennedy Center, Walt Disney World, and as a company member with WCDC. Her choreographic practice spans concert, site-specific, and community-based contexts, often centering audience engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration. After nine years directing the dance program at Provo High School and mentoring hundreds of emerging artists, Jocelyn spent the past academic year as a Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University. She is excited to join the faculty at Utah Valley University and return to her Wolverine roots. Jocelyn holds degrees in Dance Performance and Dance Education from Utah Valley University and an MFA in Dance from Montclair State University. Her creative research investigates presence, spatial relationships, and embodied experience, including taste, as tools for fostering connection between performers, audiences, and environment.
