Helen Smith is a physical theatre practitioner with Butoh at the heart of her practice since 1992. She credits Zen Zen Zo as her initial introduction to Butoh. She has trained for 8 years in Japan with Butoh masters including Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Dairakudakan, Seisaku and the late Yukio Waguri. In 2013, she wrote a thesis as part of her masters in theatre research at Monash University, titled Being Moved: The Transformative Power of Butoh. Helen performs as a member of the Space Between Performance Collective with Gabrielle New and Bodyweather-based, site-specific performance group, the Environmental Performance Authority.