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Rotating Faculty 2026: Moving In and Out of Tune with Luna Vintner

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Presented as part of our 2026 rotating faculty series:

Moving In and Out of Tune with Luna Vintner

About Luna Vintner:


Luna Vintner is a New York–based multidisciplinary artist working across music, movement, and acting. She is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser whose work explores the relationship between sound, embodiment, and accessibility.

Originally from Turkey, Luna moved to the United States to pursue drama training after completing her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in music. She composes original music for short films and  performance works, and she is also an independent singer-songwriter, creating intimate interdisciplinary projects that blend music, storytelling, and physical expression.

As a legally blind artist, her practice aims to create inclusive improvisational spaces where music and movement meet as equal creative partners, dissolving traditional hierarchies between dancer and musician. Her work includes original music releases, film composition, and the creation of listening-based movement practices such as Moving In and Out of Tune, designed in collaboration with blind and visually impaired movers. 

About This Workshop Series:

Moving In and Out of Tune is a listening-based movement creation practice developed by Luna Vintner. The workshop centers improvisational exchange between live music and movers, inviting participants to create sound and movement together in real time.

Through guided prompts and theme-based improvisational scores, dancers explore music not as accompaniment, but as an ever-changing landscape for embodied response. The practice supports the discovery of surprising movement vocabulary through deep listening, intuition, and presence.

Offered virtually in collaboration with Dark Room Ballet, this series is designed for blind and visually impaired movers, emphasizing accessibility, non-visual connection, and shared artistic authorship between musician and dancer. Instrumentalists are welcome to participate, joining the workshop as creative collaborators in this live improvisational space.

Workshop Dates and Details:

Moving In and Out of Tune: a listening-based movement creation workshop series with live music performed by acclaimed musician, actor, and dancer, Luna Vintner. (Listen to Luna on Spotify!)

Workshops will be offered virtually on Zoom.

Each workshop is two hours long:

  • Workshop #1: Sunday, August 2, 2026 from 12 PM to 2 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Workshop #2: Sunday, August 9, 2026 from 12 PM to 2 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Workshop #3: Sunday, August 16, 2026 from 12 PM to 2 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Workshop #4: Sunday, August 23, 2025 from 12 PM to 2 PM (Eastern/New York Time)

To register for this workshop series, send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Moving In and Out of Tune

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Rotating Faculty 2026: Intro to Simonson Jazz Dance with Valentina Bertani

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Presented as part of our 2026 rotating faculty series:

Intro to Simonson Jazz Dance with Valentina Bertani

About Valentina Bertani:

Valentina was born in 1977: she is a curly-haired child, full of verve, nice, resourceful and curious, a little explorer. Her journey into dance began at the age of two and a half and, over time, her great curiosity led her to experiment with different techniques and styles: from ballet, to hip hop, to belly dancing, up to modern and jazz dance.

Valentina studies hard and works in the meantime: she grows up dancing and, the more she grows, the stronger her bond with dance becomes. She became a teacher and began to share what she had learned and her enthusiasm for this art with young and old, without ever stopping. Valentina was born with an eye disease that, over the years, would lead her to gradually lose her sight. And it is precisely after the most beautiful moment of her life, the birth of her son Matteo, that she feels the need to hang up her dancing shoes.

Due to the worsening of her condition, she gave up dancing for 15 years, a period of great hardship during which she learned to come to terms with her new life. Her tireless tenacity and her innate curiosity never left her, even when she had to deal with a different life, which forced her to move in the world in a whole new way. Her bond with dance is so indissoluble that the flame of passion reignites…

In 2021 Valentina started the “Svista Dance” project which involves visually impaired and blind children and girls in the study of dance. This path is a stimulus for her to deepen her new relationship with dance and with her own body. Shortly thereafter, she meets Tereza Perez Ceccon, an American teacher, and begins studying the “Simonson” method with her, thanks to which she discovers a whole new way of dancing. The Simonson technique was created by the North American Lynn Simonson and suggests an organic approach to movement by promoting a more “intelligent”, conscious and respectful use of the body. What others call a limit, for her becomes an opportunity. Valentina graduated in this technique, still little known in Italy, but which offers invaluable tools to increase body awareness and self-confidence. Valentina is now the first blind teacher certified in the Simonson method.

MOVING IN THE DARK

Moving in the dark is a real exploration of oneself: a deep and adventurous journey into one’s self, a way to take care of oneself. But how can you explore yourself and move in space without the help of sight? It is done by breaking down the barriers of prejudice and the rigidity of conventions, moving without looking but only listening to one’s body. Who is this experience for? To all those who want to get in touch with their most profound, most intimate part, in a natural and harmonious way through a series of organic movements that allow you to release all those tensions that often make us lose sight of our needs and priorities. Not only that: this type of path can also be very useful for all those professionals who use the body as a tool of expression: singers, dancers, musicians, actors who want to improve their performance. Moving in the dark means walking more harmoniously and serenely in the world and experiencing it without the prejudices and pressures to which we are constantly exposed in everyday life.

TRAVELING WITH VALE

I would like to accompany you on a tour “in the dark” because I think it is the best way to understand yourself in relation to the outside world. The awareness of one’s volumes in space is very useful to be able to move with greater harmony and flexibility in everyday life. Movement is, after all, the primordial approach to existence and understanding, from within ourselves, how to eliminate the knots that limit us and the tensions that cage us is very effective in order to live more serene and relaxed. Very often our experience, which is also the beauty of us, leaves vivid and perceptible signs in our mind and consequently on our body: exploring ourselves by traveling through the body gives us the opportunity to increase energy, vitality and well-being! Entering within oneself, abandoning oneself to the wonder of darkness, with the help of the other senses, amplifies the benefits of movements exponentially!

The Darkness may initially seem impetuous to face, especially if tensions and stress are very important, but you are not alone: I will accompany you in your explorations, in your travels, to reassure you until you can be at ease and fully enjoy the work we are doing. Once you have tasted the freedom from the chains that kept you tied to the light, you will be much more free and aware… It may seem surreal, but no one better than me can make you understand how wonderful it is not to see what is around you, but rather to feel it and perceive it in a real and conscious way! Becoming blind was the best way for me to feel free! When I rediscovered movement in the dark, it seemed to me as if I had never moved properly in my life, even though I had been studying dance since I was 3 years old! The work you do is not important, your performance will improve more and more! If you trust me and want to devote some time to your well-being and to improving your skills, I am ready to accompany you! If you are an artist and want to improve your characteristics and skills, you can find safe help in the dark!

About This Workshop Series:

Intro to Simonson Jazz Dance is a ten class course that teaches the movement principles and exercises of Simonson method in an additive way, with each class gradually building to the complete, full-body class format.

This class is designed for blind and visually impaired adults with no prior experience with Simonson Jazz Dance, and is open to learners who have never studied dance before. This class is not recorded for copyright reasons, so attendance at all ten sessions is strongly encouraged.

Workshop Dates and Details:

These workshops are set up to build on one another and attendance at all 10 sessions is strongly encouraged.

The workshops will be offered virtually on Zoom.

Each workshop is 90 minutes long:

  • Session #1: Friday, April 3, 2026 from 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Session #2: Friday, April 10, 2026 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Session #3: Friday, April 17, 2026 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Session #4: Friday, April 24, 2026 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Session #5: Friday, May 1, 2026 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Session #6: Friday, May 8, 2026 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Session #7: Friday, May 15, 2026 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Session #8: Friday, May 22, 2026 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Session #9: Friday, May 29, 2026 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Session #10: Friday, June 5, 2026 2 PM to 3:30 PM (Eastern/New York Time)

To register:

This course requires completion of a student intake form and a registration conversation with Valentina, the instructor of the course.

To start your registration process, please send an email to info@darkroomballet.com to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Intro to Simonson Jazz Dance

Registration for Intro to Simonson Jazz Dance closes on March 30, 2026, so please do not wait to begin your registration process — Valentina is so excited to teach you!

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Rotating Faculty 2026: Improvising with our Ecosystems with Shannon Brooks

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Presented as part of our 2026 rotating faculty series:

Improvising with our Ecosystems: a Laboratory and Introduction to Improvising with Movement, Sound, and Self-Audio Description with Shannon Brooks

About Shannon Brooks:


Shannon Brooks is a multisensory, multimedia artist grounded in iterative, time-based experimentation. Their practice engages with the full range of our senses and draws on ritual, material, and performance, to construct strange worlds between the physical and the ephemeral. Their practice researches the interconnected systems between ecology, decay, the body, disability, power, ghosts, geologic time, movement, textile, and memory.

Their practice decentralizes sight as the ultimate means of validating experience, creating cacophonies of textures and sounds to explore the dimensions of our senses. As a low-vision person, Shannon understands accessibility as an imperfect creative force that transforms time, space, and power structures.

About This Workshop Series:

A monthly ritual to connect with, stretch into and experiment with the glory of our senses.

We ground into our practice with guided imaginative eco-embodiments and learning different approaches to improvising with movement and sound. Then we will play with, touch, taste, listen, and smell materials found in our own everyday life to celebrate and map out the landscapes of our sensorial experiences. Our time will conclude by folding our somatic exploration into our improvisations, and developing imperfect audio descriptions reflecting on our practice together.

After each practice, participants will receive an overview of the improvisation techniques we explored, music selections, and an ever-evolving dictionary of terms specific to Shannon’s class series.

Workshop Dates and Details:

These workshops are set up to build on one another but can be taken separately. 

They will be offered virtually on Zoom.

Each workshop is two hours long:

  • Sunday, February 1, 2026 – Improvising with Our Ecosystems with Shannon Brooks, 2 PM to 4 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Sunday, March 1, 2026 – Improvising with Our Ecosystems with Shannon Brooks, 2 PM to 4 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Sunday, April 12, 2026 – Improvising with Our Ecosystems with Shannon Brooks, 2 PM to 4 PM (Eastern/New York Time)

To register for this workshop series, send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Improvising with our Ecosystems

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Rotating Faculty 2026: Cultivating a Studio Art Practice with Bill Porter

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Presented as part of our 2026 rotating faculty series:

Cultivating a Studio Art Practice with Bill Porter

About Bill Porter:

Bill Porter is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose research-based studio practice examines how personal histories, cultural narratives, and visual systems shape perception and reinforce social inequalities, drawing on his lived experience with an inherited retinal disorder and the broader realities of blind and low vision communities to critically examine systemic ableism. Bill teaches studio art at the College of Art and Design at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and develops accessible studio courses for artists with disabilities through museums and nonprofit organizations, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Access Studio program. An active disability advocate, he founded the Lesley University Disability Advocacy and Education Group and organizes exhibitions and public programs that amplify the perspectives and lived experiences of people with disabilities. His teaching and scholarship focus on cultural narratives of blindness, inclusive studio instruction, and peer-based learning. Bill has collaborated with an interdisciplinary faculty team researching student-led peer critique, contributing to the development of a widely presented three-step feedback protocol and the co-authored publication Student-Led Peer Review: A Practical Guide to Implementation Across Disciplines and Modalities (Routledge, 2022).

About This Workshop Series:

This studio art course focuses on building a sustainable studio art practice within a supportive learning environment. Students will develop a single art project over the course of the program, working through research, making, feedback, and revision. The course also introduces art history and contemporary art through the perspectives of blind and low vision artists and scholars, grounding studio work in critical and creative contexts.

This seven-week course meets weekly for two-hour online sessions that include lectures, group discussions, and critiques. Creative individuals of all levels of art training and experience are welcome. Students are encouraged to work with the materials, modalities, and methods that best support their projects, including non-visual media. Attendance and active participation are expected, including engagement in class critiques and the shared process of giving and receiving feedback.

Workshop Dates and Details:

These workshops will be offered virtually on Zoom.

Each workshop is two hours long:

  • Thursday May 7, 2026 — 7 to 9 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Thursday May 14, 2026 — 7 to 9 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Thursday May 21, 2026 — 7 to 9 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Thursday May 28, 2026 — 7 to 9 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Thursday June 4, 2026 — 7 to 9 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Thursday June 11, 2026 — 7 to 9 PM (Eastern/New York Time)
  • Thursday June 18, 2026 — 7 to 9 PM (Eastern/New York Time)

To register for this workshop series, send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Cultivating a Studio Art Practice with Bill Porter

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A Practice of Being Workshop with Kayla Hamilton – December 10, 2025

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Presented as part of our Fall/Winter 2025 guest artist workshop series:

A Practice of Being Workshop with Kayla Hamilton

About Kayla Hamilton:

Kayla Hamilton is a Texas-born, Bronx-based dancer, performance maker, educator, consultant and artistic director of Circle O—a cultural organization uplifting Black Disabled and other multiply marginalized creatives.

About This Workshop:

Come exactly as you are—rested or restless, steady or stirred. In this improvisational movement space, there are no set steps and no pressure to perform. We begin with breath, curiosity, and a shared willingness to see what wants to emerge. Movement may arrive small and subtle—or bold and expansive. It might surprise you, delight you, or teach you something  about how your body wants to be known.

Together, we’ll play, experiment, and follow sensation as it leads us into rhythm, stillness, or flow. Each moment becomes an invitation to the next. There are no wrong turns—only new possibilities. 

For anyone who craves freedom in movement, trusts—or wants to trust—their impulses, and is ready to say “yes” , together.

Workshop Date and Details:

This workshop will be offered virtually on Zoom.

The workshop is two hours long, from 6 PM to 8 PM on  Wednesday December 10, 2025 – NEW date and time

To register for this workshop series, send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line A Practice of Being Workshop with Kayla Hamilton

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What’s a Collegium, Anyway? (It starts so soon!)

You may have heard about the upcoming Dark Room Ballet Collegium, an upcoming free series of workshops sponsored by Dark Room Ballet that is starting very soon — the first workshop is coming up Thursday, October 9, 2025 from 6 PM to 8 PM on Zoom!

But what is a Collegium, anyway?

Merriam-Webster says, in part, that a collegium is:

An organized society or group: association” and also “a college, especially one in a university.”

That means that this series of high quality workshops, all provided for free by a group of passionate blind and low-vision professional artists, is like a Dark Room Ballet temporary university!

Read on to learn more about each offering, and reach out via email to register for any or all of these workshops at: info@darkroomballet.com to begin the registration process.

*If you have emailed but have not received a reply, we should have your message, but feel free to write again!

You can hear Krishna talk about the Collegium in a video on YouTube (with open captions and a transcript available):

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Vortex Workshop with Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez – December 6, 2025

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Presented as part of our Fall/Winter 2025 guest artist workshop series:

Vortex Workshop with Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez

About Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez:

Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez is a Costa Rican-American artist who works in choreography, film, installation, sound, and blind art. His work explores the connections between access, trust, mythology, anthropology, and heritage. Núñez contemplates the body, its movement, and how it interacts with energy and force in relation to space/time and from his visual impairment.

About This Workshop:

Vortex explores the anatomical planes (sagittal, transverse, frontal) and the axes of movement (anteroposterior, mediolateral, longitudinal) through the body and  space/time. Vortex is spatial alchemy. Disabled dancers learn to navigate internal and external spaces using our heritage, lineage, memory, proprioception, breathwork and  magical existence.

Workshop Date and Details:

This workshop will be offered virtually on Zoom.

The workshop is two hours long, from 4 PM to 6 PM on  Saturday December 6, 2025

To register for this workshop series, send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Vortex Workshop with Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez

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December 2025: Developing Your Voice Intensive with Alex Bulmer

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Presented as part of our Fall/Winter 2025 guest artist workshop series:

Developing Your Voice — A Vocal Training Intensive Workshop Series with Alex Bulmer

About Alex Bulmer:

Alex Bulmer is an award winning Blind playwright, voice teacher, actor and performance maker with thirty five professional years working across Canada and the UK.

She finds joy and potency through mutual  growth and original expression, is dedicated to inter-dependent practice, and guided by an invitation to follow the grain of her own wood.

Alex is co-creator of multiple Blind-led productions including May I Take Your Arm, Perceptual Archaeology, Gesture and Maddy and The Invisible Band of Groovers.

She is artistic director of Toronto-based Fire and Rescue Arts, which de-centres visuality from imagination to creation.

In 1990, Alex graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Since then, she has been supporting Blind and Sighted performers to experience vocal freedom – the deep connection between breath and voice, the energy of resonance and vibration and the dynamic physicality of speech.

About This Intensive Workshop Series:

Developing Your Voice is a special intensive workshop series that addresses the specific vocal skills needed by both audio describers of dance and self-describing dancers.

In Alex’s words: The human voice, your voice, is your primary instrument as a describer. When describing Dance, your voice is called upon to be more flexible and expressive. So let’s learn to play your vocal instrument well!

In these workshops, you will learn how to prepare your voice for description, and gain skills to enable you to express language in the most effective way.

The workshop will cover a brief overview of how the voice works, discuss how you can keep your voice healthy, and offer exercises to nourish and develop your vocality, and better engage with the physicality of language.

You will learn a warm up routine that you can practice to develop and support you to vocally best connect Blind audiences with the art of Dance, whether as an audio describer or dance or a self-describing dancer.

Workshop Dates and Details:

These intensive workshops are designed for the learning needs of different professional groups, but can be approached in a cumulative way, with the second workshop building on the skills developed in the first.

They will be offered virtually on Zoom.

All workshops start at 4 PM (Eastern Time), and include 90 minutes of vocal technique followed by 30 minutes of open question and answer time.

  • Wednesday, December 3, 2025: Developing Your Voice for Describers of Dance
  • Thursday, December 4, 2025: Developing Your Voice for Self-Describing Dancers

If you an an audio describer, for the first workshop, please bring a paragraph of text that you can read and practice during the workshop — a sample of audio description from a recent project is ideal! If you are an audio describer or self-describing dancer, for the second workshop, please memorize one sentence that you can use during the workshop — it can be anything!

To register for this transformative workshop series, send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Developing Your Voice

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November 2025 — Sensory Beyond Sight: A Choreographic Workshop Series with Davian “DJ” Robinson

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Presented as part of our Fall/Winter 2025 guest artist workshop series:

Sensory Beyond Sight: A Choreographic Workshop Series with Davian “DJ” Robinson

About Davian “DJ” Robinson:

Davian “DJ” Robinson is a passionate and boundary-breaking visually impaired dancer, choreographer, and performer. Drawing from his lived experience and athletic movement style, he creates choreography that is both physically powerful and emotionally resonant. His work blends dynamic storytelling with raw embodiment, inviting audiences into a world where rhythm, resilience, and adaptability redefine how we move and connect. Through both performance and education, Davian challenges conventions and opens new possibilities for inclusive expression in the arts.

About This Intensive Workshop Series:

Sensory Beyond Sight cultivates movement using breath, touch, spatial hearing, weight, and proprioception rather than sight. Developed by visually‑impaired choreographer DJ Robinson, the practice empowers participants to:

• Discover liberating, imaginative movement without visual imitation.
• Deepen body awareness in time and space.
• Build trusting partnerships that translate verbal cues into motion.

Tactile & Creative Supplies:

DJ often designs choreography using a tactile drafting board/felt board.

Magnetic or Velcro pieces represent dancers and pathways, allowing him to map formations by touch and communicate spatial ideas clearly.

This reminder models how tactile tools can replace sight‑based diagrams.

What follows are shopping links for the different equipment options that you can choose to use during the workshop series and continuing on in your own choreographic practice:

  • Wikki Stix Neon Pak (Amazon link)
    Reusable, bendable wax-coated yarn sticks for creative tactile art and sensory play. Great for children, educational projects, and travel activities.
  • DRAFTSMAN Tactile Drawing Board (APH link)
    A specialized tactile drawing board with stylus and film sheets, allowing blind or visually impaired users to create raised-line graphics. Durable and portable, offered by the American Printing House for the Blind.

Workshop Dates and Details:

This workshop series is cumulative, and each of the four workshops builds on the skills developed the week before.

All workshops start at 4 pm (Eastern Time), and are 90 minutes long.

  • Saturday, November 8, 2025: Breath & Foundational Body Awareness
  • Saturday, November 15, 2025: Deep Tactile Awareness & Directionality
  • Saturday, November 22, 2025: Partner Guiding & Shape the Mode Expansion
  • Saturday, November 29, 2025: Trust Guide Series & Culmination

To register for this transformative workshop series, send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Sensory Beyond Sight

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Musicality Concepts in Ballet — A Pro-Level Intensive Workshop Series with Hannah Werbel

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Hannah stands on a large rock in a mountain meadow, surrounded by wildflowers and tall pine trees. She stands with her left leg held straight and supporting her, while her right leg is lifted high to the side, nearly horizontal. Her left arm curves overhead, and her right arm stretches toward her raised foot, creating a diagonal line across her body. She wears leggings, a short-sleeve shirt, trail shoes, and sunglasses, with her hair in two braids. The sky is clear, and snow-capped mountains are visible in the distance.

Presented as part of our Fall/Winter 2025 guest artist workshop series:

Musicality Concepts in Ballet — A Pro-Level Intensive Workshop Series with Hannah Werbel (October/November 2025)

About Hannah Werbel:

Trained in classical ballet, with forays into jazz, contemporary and modern swing dance, Hannah has been dancing and playing with music since before she can remember.

As a student of Dark Room Ballet herself, Hannah is excited to share her love of music and expression with the community. She believes in teaching from a perspective of curiosity and play, and is looking forward to helping students discover a sense of expression within the structure of ballet. 

About This Intensive Workshop Series:

Musicality Concepts in Ballet is a special intensive workshop series that analyzes and reinforces select  musicality concepts in the context of a pro-level ballet technique class. Each week, we will explore two contrasting concepts and experiment with them through different combination-based movement patterns. This workshop is designed for disabled dancers who have been dancing ballet consistently for at least one year and have strong ballet vocabulary recall. (If you’re taking ballet class every week, this series is for you!)

Workshop Dates and Details:


 These intensive workshops can be studied either in a standalone or in a cumulative way.

They will be offered virtually on Zoom.

The format of each workshop is similar to a ballet technique class, but with an open floor for questions after each few combinations.

Each workshop is two hours long:

Wednesday evening classes will run from 8 PM to 10 PM (Eastern Time)

Saturday evening classes will run from 6 PM to 8 PM (Eastern Time)

  • Wednesday, October 22, 2025: Accents and Rhythms (8 PM to 10 PM)
  • Saturday, October 25, 2025: Dynamics: using the floor to generate and dampen energy (6 PM to 8 PM)
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2025: Staccato and Legato (8 PM to 10 PM)
  • Saturday, November 1, 2025: Rubato: playing with the music (6 PM to 8 PM)

    If you are a taped floor dancer, have your floor taped as you would normally for ballet technique class, and be ready to dance ballet in a richer, more expressive way!

To register for this workshop series, send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Musicality Concepts in Ballet