Dark Room Ballet with Krishna Washburn

06/19/2026

This saturday, june 20th! Session 4: Logic and Language in Audio Description! You can still register for Audio Description for Dance for free!
In our fourth session, we’ll be using original artists’ language and formal logic analysis to write effective, purposeful, and equitable audio descriptions. Participants will explore how language choices shape audience experience and practice creating descriptions that center both artistic intent and accessibility. Please bring a way to record your work, whether through handwriting, typing, or audio recording.
Each week explores a different topic, and you can join any and all sessions. Email [email protected] to register!
Join Dark Room Ballet for a tuition-free online workshop series exploring the art, practice, and philosophy of audio description for dance. Designed for blind and visually impaired artists and audiences, audio describers, choreographers, educators, and arts administrators, this series offers an in-depth look into accessible performance practices and creative approaches to audio description.
Topics include:
• Vocal Tonality in Audio Description
• Script Preparation Strategies
• Logic and Language in Audio Description
• Critically Listening to Audio Description for Dance
Workshops take place online via Zoom on Saturdays from 4–6 PM ET.
Dark Room Ballet is an independent, grant-funded, tuition-free fine arts educational program for blind and visually impaired adults taught by expert blind and visually impaired teaching artists.
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06/11/2026

Session 3: script preparation strategies!
Did you miss the first session? You can still register for Audio Description for Dance for Free! This week we are experimenting with Vocal Tonality. Each week explores a different topic and you can join any and all! Email [email protected] to register!

Join Dark Room Ballet for a tuition-free online workshop series exploring the art, practice, and philosophy of audio description for dance. Designed for blind and visually impaired artists and audiences, audio describers, choreographers, educators, and arts administrators, this series offers an in-depth look into accessible performance practices and creative approaches to audio description.

Topics include:
• Vocal Tonality in Audio Description
• Script Preparation Strategies
• Logic and Language in Audio Description
• Critically Listening to Audio Description for Dance

Workshops take place online via Zoom on Saturdays from 4–6 PM ET.

Dark Room Ballet is an independent, grant-funded, tuition-free fine arts educational program for blind and visually impaired adults taught by expert blind and visually impaired teaching artists.

06/04/2026

Session 2: Experimenting with Vocal Tonality!

Did you miss the first session? You can still register for Audio Description for Dance for Free! This week we are experimenting with Vocal Tonality. Each week explores a different topic and you can join any and all! Email [email protected] to register!

Join Dark Room Ballet for a tuition-free online workshop series exploring the art, practice, and philosophy of audio description for dance. Designed for blind and visually impaired artists and audiences, audio describers, choreographers, educators, and arts administrators, this series offers an in-depth look into accessible performance practices and creative approaches to audio description.

Topics include:
• Vocal Tonality in Audio Description
• Script Preparation Strategies
• Logic and Language in Audio Description
• Critically Listening to Audio Description for Dance

Workshops take place online via Zoom on Saturdays from 4–6 PM ET.

Dark Room Ballet is an independent, grant-funded, tuition-free fine arts educational program for blind and visually impaired adults taught by expert blind and visually impaired teaching artists.

05/28/2026

Starting this Saturday!

Audio Description for Dance with Krishna Washburn

Join Dark Room Ballet for a tuition-free online workshop series exploring the art, practice, and philosophy of audio description for dance. Designed for blind and visually impaired artists and audiences, audio describers, choreographers, educators, and arts administrators, this series offers an in-depth look into accessible performance practices and creative approaches to audio description.

Topics include:
• How to Hire an Audio Describer
• Vocal Tonality in Audio Description
• Script Preparation Strategies
• Logic and Language in Audio Description
• Critically Listening to Audio Description for Dance

Workshops take place online via Zoom on Saturdays from 4–6 PM ET.

Dark Room Ballet is an independent, grant-funded, tuition-free fine arts educational program for blind and visually impaired adults taught by expert blind and visually impaired teaching artists.

If you are interested in signing up, please email:
[[email protected]

05/14/2026

Tomorrow: Sensory Beyond Sight with Davian “DJ” Robinson
Free virtual choreographic workshop
4 PM Eastern. E-mail: [email protected]
Join visually impaired dancer, choreographer, and para-Olympian DJ Robinson for a powerful movement practice exploring choreography through breath, touch, spatial hearing, weight, and proprioception rather than sight.
This cumulative workshop series invites participants to:
• Discover imaginative movement beyond visual imitation
• Deepen body awareness in time and space
• Build trust through movement and verbal cueing
DJ’s work challenges conventional movement practices and expands what choreography can be.
Tactile and creative tools are welcome, including tactile boards, felt boards, Wikki Stix, or other accessible drafting materials.

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05/11/2026

Sensory Beyond Sight
Study Choreography with DJ Robinson
Join us Friday, May 15
4:00–5:30 PM Eastern
Virtual on Zoom
Tuition-free
Developed by visually impaired choreographer, dancer, para-Olympian, and PAD Grant recipient DJ Robinson, this class explores creative movement and choreography through breath, touch, spatial hearing, weight, and proprioception rather than sight.
Discover imaginative movement beyond visual imitation.
Deepen body awareness in time and space.
Build trust through movement.
Register now on Zoom
Email [email protected] to learn more
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04/27/2026

Join us on Zoom this Sunday, May 2nd — registration link in bio.
VORTEX Workshop with Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez
About the 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 are invited to navigate internal and external spaces using heritage, lineage, memory, proprioception, breathwork, and magical existence.
About the Artist:
Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez is a Costa Rican-American artist working across choreography, film, installation, sound, and blind art. His work investigates access, trust, mythology, anthropology, and heritage—contemplating the body, its movement, and its relationship to energy, force, and space/time through the lens of visual impairment.
Details:
📍 Virtual (Zoom)
🗓 Saturday, May 2, 2026
⏰ 2 PM – 4 PM (EST)
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01/28/2026

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:
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, visit

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12/10/2025

TODAY!

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

Info & register:
https://darkroomballet.com/fall-2025-movement-kayla/

[A headshot of Kayla Hamilton, who is a milk chocolate colored Black woman. She is posing in front of a blurred brick wall, wearing a long sleeve black and tan striped shirt. She has light makeup and is smiling. Her black and golden locs are down.]

12/06/2025

TODAY!

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 go to:

Categories News / Announcements Vortex Workshop with Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez – December 6, 2025 Post author By krishna Post date August 10, 2025 Christopher moves his arms, creating curved lines while a dim light bathes his body, creating the effect of being in a cave. Presented as pa...