Black Box Dance Theatre

A professional, non-profit dance company based in Raleigh, North Carolina

A catalyst for meaningful human interactions, powerful storytelling, and transformative art-making.

What We Do

Black Box Dance Theatre is a group of artists with mutual respect and attraction to each other’s dancing, artistry, professionalism, and desire to make meaningful work of the highest quality. Black Box Dancers are committed to our craft, pushing ourselves physically, technically, and artistically, and advancing the expectations and outcomes of ​modern dance.

How Did We Get Our Name?

In the theatre, a black box is a space where neither the performers nor audiences are held to constraints, a place where people notice things that typically would go unnoticed.

In engineering, a black box is an abstract concept of creating, a tool for making where the inner workings are a mystery, yet the outcomes are a direct response to the input.

For us, Black Box is a place where artists can bring their talent, interest, and curiosity about the world, a place where audiences, participants, and performers connect; a place where meaningful human interactions lead to the creation of transformative art.

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