Students with a solid command of modern dance vocabulary master increasingly difficult dance combinations & exercises as technique is refined. Using a collaborative structure, greater emphasis is placed on composition & improvisation to increase their creative abilities.

Designed for dancers with a solid command of modern dance technique, this class challenges students to work on alignment & execution of movement for a clearer understanding of dance theory. Improvisation & composition are used to experiment with elements learned in previous classes.

Black Box Dance Theatre is excited to join the American Dance Festival Summer Dance Intensive (18+) lineup of guest artists for a masterclass featuring company practices, technique, and repertory. Class is exclusively offered to SDI students through ADF.

Discover how dance can humanize and advance scientific research and how physics concepts can be expressed through dance in an immersive, day-long dance laboratory. This is a rare opportunity to move, learn, and create within a process where dance is treated as research, connection, and human expression-working shoulder to shoulder with artists and scientists shaping new knowledge together.

Participants will work alongside both scientists and dancers, collaborating directly with Dr. Sarah Watzman, Principal Investigator and associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Cincinnati, and Michelle Pearson, Founder and Artistic Director of Black Box Dance Theatre (BBDT). Supported by the National Science Foundation, the intensive explores quantum physics through rigorous physical practice and creative inquiry—translating complex science and the human stories behind it into an original, evening-length performance piece.

Currently on a mission to make Spring cleaning: FUN! Come tidy up that technique with a full day of dance offerings, featuring BBDT Core Company classics like contemporary with Michelle Pearson, and fresh Guest Artist takes with Jeffrey Gunshol and Tiffany Hale.

Black Box Dance Theatre is seeking a male dancer for the 2026–2027 Season.

Join a company creating bold, non-fiction dance rooted in real stories and human connection.

Advanced contemporary technique required.
Must be available for weekly Friday rehearsals.

Black Box Dance Theatre is seeking a male dancer for the 2026–2027 Season.

Join a company creating bold, non-fiction dance rooted in real stories and human connection.

Advanced contemporary technique required.
Must be available for weekly Friday rehearsals.

Guest artist Shekinah Brown finishes out our spring drop-in series with a dynamic and artistically challenging contemporary class. In this class you can expect to play with diverse initiation point of movement, texture, and improvisational elements, all with a killer soundtrack to match.