BLACK BOX DANCE THEATRE
Raleigh’s Premier Modern Dance Company
WHAT WE DO
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EDUCATION
Ensuring access to arts education across the state of North Carolina is a critical part of our work in the world.
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PERFORMANCE
High quality performance. Professionally trained artists. Experience the joys of modern dance with us.
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ENGAGEMENT
Whether it’s veterans and military families or teambuilding with your coworkers, Black Box Dance Theatre is here to support you.
Company
Choreography Concert
A budding professional dance community, new artists in bloom, and growing company works
This April 17th and 18th at 7PM, join us for two nights of celebration at Kenan Recital Hall- witness the creation, collaboration, and connections formed by Company Choreographers through bold, original dance works.
Featuring new productions by Company Members: Cortney Vartanian, Kate Gupton, Payton Chopp, Jill Guyton Nee, and Shadidja Parker, as well as an excerpt from a revived PATRIOT: We Lift Each Other, choreographed by Artistic Director, Michelle Pearson, and performed by BBDT Company Members in collaboration with female veterans.
This concert is a celebration of the artists, collaborators, and community members who make Black Box Dance Theatre and the meaningful work we bring into the world, truly special. We thank you endlessly for your support!
Upcoming Events
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Company Choreography Concert
This April 17th and 18th at 7PM, join us for two nights of celebration- witness the creation, collaboration, and connections formed by BBDT Company Choreographers through the origination of brand new dance works. Featuring work by Kate Gupton, Cortney Vartanian, Payton Chopp, Jill Guyton Nee, Shadidja Parker, and Michelle Pearson.
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Rialto Screening of "We Lift Each Other"
Join us Saturday, May 2 at 7PM at the historic Rialto Theatre for a free public screening of We Lift Each Other — a powerful documentary about the transformative work of Raleigh-based Black Box Dance Theatre with veterans across North Carolina.
Suggested donation. Open to all.
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April Community Drop-In Class
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 points of movement, quality and texture, and improvisational elements, all with a killer soundtrack to match. Don’t miss the last monthly drop-in of the season!
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Physics + Dance Lab
Designed for high school and undergraduate students, local dance artists, and teachers looking to expand their understanding of dance integration, this day-long intensive on May 31st invites you to investigate big ideas through the body—using movement as a way to explore, question, and make meaning.
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Afternoon of Art: A Joint Force Event!
More info coming soon!
OUR MISSION
To create and share transformative dance experiences that connect communities, reveal humanity, and inspire understanding through art.
WE LIFT
EACH OTHER
A Black Box Dance Theatre film from the documentary anthology series, I FEEL MYSELF TO BE PART OF SOMETHING,
Tony Award-winning producer, Mara Isaacs, has announced the launch of a bold new documentary anthology exploring how the arts shape, uplift, and define communities across the United States.
We Lift Each Other is a powerful film that highlights Black Box Dance Theatre’s long-term work with active-duty service members, veterans, and participants in a Veterans Treatment Court program—individuals navigating recovery, rebuilding identity, and reclaiming hope. Through movement, storytelling, and shared creative practice, these veterans reveal profound resilience and the capacity for connection after trauma.
Recognized statewide and nationally as a model of hope, the film is now available for screenings across America.
FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY
We don’t make dances about things,
we make dances because of them.
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