Barbara Dilley is a performer, choreographer, and educator based in Boulder, United States. Her practice across dance, performance art, and theatre centres improvisation and “embodied awareness”—a method developed by Dilley that combines movement studies with meditation and creative compositional processes. Dilley was a prominent member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and is recognized for designing the dance/movement studies program at Naropa University, Boulder, where she also served as president.