Artist's Spotlight
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. 

DJ Robinson Awarded PAD Grant

DJ is the first recipient of the Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the Blind grant!

DJ is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, para-Olympian, and fellow of the Berkley AXIS dance company’s Choreo-Lab.

Learn more from DJ in his upcoming Sensory Beyond Sight course at Dark Room Ballet. Sensory Beyond Sight guides participants to explore creative movement and free-form dance using blindness skills and proprioceptive awareness.

As Reggie Herbert, Vice President of PAD says so well, “The field of dance and creative movement is historically dominated by sighted choreographers. DJ’s unique approach to this art form combined with his dedication to embracing the blind experience as a cornerstone to his practice is challenging the sighted stranglehold on creative movement, demonstrating the intrinsic value of the blind body’s movement in space.” 

Sensory Beyond Sight
Study Choreography with DJ

Fridays, 4:00-5:30PM Eastern time

Sign up for one class or many!

May 15, August 7, September 18, October 9, November 6, December 4

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. 

All courses are tuition-free at Dark Room Ballet

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.