Dark Room Ballet is an independent, grant-funded, tuition-free, pre-professional fine arts educational program for blind and visually impaired adults, taught by expert blind and visually impaired teaching artists.
All courses are virtual, taught at the collegiate level, and are designed for the educational needs of blind and visually impaired people, both educators and learners.
The Dark Room Ballet curriculum currently includes courses in ballet at the introductory, open, and professional levels, Simonson jazz, choreography, improvisational dance, movement somatics, dancer’s anatomy, vocal training, visual arts, and dramatic arts, as well as special professional development curriculum for audio describers of dance and blind audio description consultants.
You can think of Dark Room Ballet as a tuition-free, independent fine arts college designed for and by blind and visually impaired people.
You can learn more about the philosophy behind this: Why Are Classes Free?
When you donate to Dark Room Ballet you are supporting dance education and opportunity for blind Artists and audiences. There are two ways to donate:
- Dark Room Ballet is a fiscally sponsored project of Disability Power Bloc, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. You can donate online via Zeffy: