Celeste Nazeli Snowber, PhD is a dancer, poet, writer and award-winning educator. Her opus of multidisciplinary works has pioneered and instituted the importance of embodied forms of inquiry; the presence of the body within arts-based research, and its implications for writing, being, creating, teaching and living. The foundation of her research lies in the integration between body and mind, physicality and spirituality, with emphasis on connecting the personal and universal. The essence of her performative work centres around site specific performance and complete one-woman-shows that integrate comedy, contemporary dance and improvisation and how one lives a juicy life amidst complexities and wonder. As a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Celeste is a sought-after mentor and has recently expanded her reach to write, speak and perform to wider audiences who long for the connections between authentic living, discovering voice, and exploring artistic expression in the midst of difficult times. Celeste’s publications include books, collections of poetry, as well as chapters and articles in scholarly books and journals. She has performed and spoken internationally for concert venues, galleries, museums, conferences, and in various outdoor spaces.

Photo by Michele Mateus.

BOOKS:

In the Womb of God: Creative Nurturing for the Soul (Liguori Publications, 1995) 9780892438235

Embodied Prayer: Toward Wholeness of Body, Mind, Soul (Wood Lake Publishing, 2004)

Landscapes of Aesthetic Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) 9781443813969

"Let the Body Out: A Love Letter to the Academy from the BODY". Appears in Epistemologies of Ignorance in Education. (Information Age, 2010), Erik Malewski and Nathalia Jaramillo, eds.

Embodied Inquiry: Writing, Living and Being through the Body (Brill, 2016) 9789463007535

Wild Tourist (Silverbow Publishing, 2016) $18 9781927616192

Blue Waiting (Acorn Press, 2017) 9781927502839 [co-author, Sean Wiebe]

The Marrow of Longing (Harp Publishing, 2021) $24.95 9781990137068

Dance, Place and Poetics: Site-Specific Performance as a Portal to Knowing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) US$39.99 978-3-031-09716-4

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