Psychic Wormhole

Psychic Wormhole (Stacy Lynn Smith + Alex Romania) is a NYC duo making live performance and experimental film.

The duo excavates trauma and somatic memory as a means to reclaim embodiment. Their works are hyper saturated, creating heart-forward "chaos meditations" as exercises in collective resilience and catharsis. Material is filtered through a genre-mashing process that combines elements of Horror, Sci-Fi, Afro-futurism, Arthouse and Camp in the creation of operatic acts of psychedelic mundanity, heroic pathos and time-traveling somatics. Embracing multidisciplinarity, Smith and Romania approach creations collaboratively, informed by dance improvisation, somatics and butoh, alongside performance art, theater and music with experimental visual design and object creations. 

Their work has been called “both delightful and horrifying” by The Brooklyn Rail. Works include: Face Eaters (The Chocolate Factory Theater); an epic multimedia performance processing global grief and political insanity alongside the loss of Romania's brother. fame hOle (La Mama) examines the role of public space in free speech through meta-theatrical voyages as two “influencers” in a gold “Cyber Truck” journey into a black hole in an attempt to save humanity. RECKONING (in post-production); a film memoir grappling with Smith’s survivorship of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and the lifelong effects of Complex-PTSD. Psychic Wormhole has held residencies with MacDowell (Interdisciplinary), Djerassi (Choreography), The Wexner Center Film / Video Studio (ongoing) and were recipients of the inaugural Artists Supporting Artists Program (ASAP) grant from Sweat Variant (Okwui Okpokwasili + Peter Born). Romania was a 2018-2020 Movement Research AIR and 2024-2025 Franklin Furnace Awardee. Smith was a 2022-2024 Movement Research AIR and 2025 Dance and Process (DAP) AIR at The Kitchen. They began dancing and working together in Kathy Westwater’s Bessie nominated “Rambler” (NYLA, ‘19).