Dana Salisbury's investigations span dance, video, language, site-specific performance installation and visual art. Her dances and videos have been seen in New York at PS 122, Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, University Settlement and the 92nd Street Y. She has created site-specific works for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, NYC's Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Brooklyn's Old American Can Factory. In 1999, she was awarded a Bessie for her work with the performance collective Red Dive. Her visual art has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries.

Whole-Body-Seer (2004), inspired by the sensate and imaginative life of the blind, offered experiential equivalents of vision without sight. This work to the creation of Dark Dining Projects, a continuing series of sensory feasts served to blindfolded guests, which take place in restaurants and arts venues. Her newest works, The Unseen Dances, are dances for blindfolded audiences.

“I relaxed in what seemed a continuously expanding setting. Without sight, it was astonishing how much one could see, how Salisbury's environment activated muscles and nerves that spectators (in the most literal sense of the word) often ignore.”

-Gad Guterman, Theatre Journal

Her performers "dance with a rich, magnified awareness of their present moment and of the subtlety of their experience." Her work "evidences her acute consciousness, her keen multi-disciplinary attention to detail.”

-Chris Dohse, Dance Insider