In January of 1993 she began training in modern dance and Butoh with Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi, founders of Kokoro Dance and has danced in the company since. Some of the major works she has appeared in are Sunyata (1997), X x-roads (1999), Crime Against Grace (2002), Embriotrophic Cavatina (2002), Sheep Man Dreams (2004), a solo piece created for her by Jay Hirabayashi with music by John Adams entitled Christian Zeal and Activity (2004). This piece was premiered at the Vancouver International Dance Festival (2004) in a program entitled Say a Prayer which was a collaborative venture between the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Kokoro Dance. In 2006 Diaz performed at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre for the 30th Anniversary of MOSAIC a solo entitled Falling Down choreographed by Barbara Bourget. Other collaborations include Butoh a-Go-Go, Holly Bright's "The Yellow Wallpaper", Jabbar Al Janabi's "ANU 5" at the Roundhouse November 2006.

In 2007 Salome Diaz and director Diane Farnsworth coproduced La Esencia de mi Madre, a short film that she choreographed and danced in as well with Continuum Dance Company. While completing the film with filmmakers, Farnsworth and Renteria in Mexico City, she performed in the International Day of Dance in Mexico, City in April of 2007.

Salome Diaz is also the artistic director of Continuum Dance Company a community-based company for adults at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. She is also collaborating in new interdisciplinary works with Diane Farnsworth, Carl Craig, Jabbar Al Janabi, as well as pursuing her career as a solo dancer and choreographer. Salome Diaz is currently exploring how the depth and the scope of her culture, her personal history and her past experience as both a contemporary and butoh dancer meet and integrate. Her most recent performance of a solo choreographed by Donna Redlick entitled "Sometimes it never leaves the skin" is the beginning of this new journey.