ProjectAlchemy

ProjectAlchemy projectALCHEMY is an international dance+ company based in St.

Petersburg, Florida, engaging the dance community and local audiences through immersive interdisciplinary performance, affordable movement classes and dance artist development opportunities.

Movement is language, too.We’ve been spending time creating something a little different with Spark Creative Stories—a f...
08/16/2026

Movement is language, too.

We’ve been spending time creating something a little different with Spark Creative Stories—a free bilingual educational video designed to help young learners discover the alphabet in both Spanish and English.

Alongside Sheila Cowley of Spark Creative Stories and Joey Clay Studios, we’re exploring how movement, storytelling, film, and play can come together to make learning feel alive.

For us, this is another kind of dance-making. Bodies become letters. Movement becomes a tool for discovery. And collaboration opens another way for our work to meet our community—this time, through the curiosity of its youngest members.

We can’t wait to share more from this process.




08/11/2026

Trust the process. Even when the process is counting too fast.

Somewhere between “wait, what?” and “ohhhh, I got it,” bodies begin to understand the idea. The confusion becomes information. The mistakes open another pathway. And eventually, the thing we were searching for starts to appear.

Making dance is messy, curious, collaborative—and usually much funnier than the finished work lets on.

The “final” version? Maybe. For now.





Four artists. Four curiosities. One season of becoming.Meet the 2026–2027 projectALCHEMY Apprentices: Willow Brightman, ...
08/11/2026

Four artists. Four curiosities. One season of becoming.

Meet the 2026–2027 projectALCHEMY Apprentices: Willow Brightman, AJ Martin, Lexi Montgomery, and Logan Patton.

Apprentices have long moved alongside our company. This season, we’re giving that relationship a deeper structure through our new Apprenticeship Program—creating space for emerging artists to train, make, question, observe, and experience the rhythms of working within a professional contemporary dance company.

Over the season, these four artists will move alongside our company artists while continuing to discover and shape their own artistic voices.

Follow their journey throughout the season, and visit our website to meet our apprentices and the artists who make up projectALCHEMY.


 
 
 


Willow Brightman

With a foundation spanning contemporary, ballet, modern, jazz, West African dance, gymnastics, and aerial arts, Willow brings a playful physical curiosity to the room. After four years as a trainee with Next Generation Ballet, she joins projectALCHEMY ready to explore, create, and discover new possibilities within movement.

AJ Martin

An Orlando-born dancer, teacher, and choreographer, AJ holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance and approaches movement through embodied storytelling, physical curiosity, and collaboration. His practice draws from training across the U.S. and Europe as he continues expanding his artistic palette and relationship to contemporary dance.

Lexi Montgomery

From Colorado to Virginia, Oklahoma, and now Florida, Lexi’s journey has moved between performance, choreography, teaching, and community engagement. Her experiences with Colorado Ballet Academy, Charlottesville Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet, and Roanoke Ballet Theatre inform a practice rooted in movement and the communities it can bring together.

Logan Patton

A recent graduate of George Jenkins High School, Logan developed her movement foundation at Highland School of Dance under Hayley Stewart. With performance experiences including The Nutcracker and Cinderella, she now steps into a new chapter of her artistic practice with pr

08/07/2026

Orbiting bodies.

Dance begins by learning another body.
As LaMichael Leonard Jr. builds new material for MIXed: Pulse of the City, the room returns to a simple practice: paralleling. Moving in the same direction. Holding the same distance. Remaining aware of the body you orbit.

Through repetition, the dancers begin to learn one another—not just physically, but energetically. Timing gives way to listening. Form gives way to relationship. Choreography emerges from the quiet negotiations between bodies sharing space.
This is the work before the work. The slow shaping of a language that can only be spoken together.

MIXed: Pulse of the City
November 20–21
The Studio@620


 
 
 


08/06/2026

It begins with a curiosity.

This is an early glimpse into a new work by Artistic Director Alexander Jones for MIXed: Pulse of the City. A quiet investigation into masculine and feminine energy—not as opposites, but as currents that ebb, flow, collide, and coexist within a single body.
Every new work begins this way: following a curiosity and trusting the body to reveal what words cannot.

A special thank you to Brucie Klay and Brucie Klay’s Dance Center for opening your home to us this week and giving this work space to grow.


 
 
 


07/04/2026

Freedom is a practice.

Today, we celebrate the freedom to gather, to create, and to move together.

We believe dance is one way we care for our communities—by making space for curiosity, dialogue, joy, and belonging. Every rehearsal, every class, and every shared experience is an invitation to listen more deeply to ourselves, to one another, and to the places we call home.

Wherever today finds you, we hope you find a moment to breathe, to move, and to be present with the people around you.

Happy Fourth of July from all of us at projectALCHEMY.





A new season of moving together.Our Summer Community Class Schedule has arrived.From July through September, we’ll conti...
07/01/2026

A new season of moving together.

Our Summer Community Class Schedule has arrived.

From July through September, we’ll continue gathering each Saturday to move, explore, and build community together. Whether you’re returning to the studio or stepping into class for the first time, there’s a place for you here.

Join us at FYI Dance for a season of shared practice, new teachers, familiar faces, and the simple joy of moving together.

View the full July–September schedule and register in advance to reserve your spot.

Saturdays • 12:30 PM
FYI Dance
Link in bio





The season starts here.Our 2026–2027 Season ALCHEMY Pass is available today.One pass. Five unforgettable experiences. A ...
06/29/2026

The season starts here.

Our 2026–2027 Season ALCHEMY Pass is available today.

One pass. Five unforgettable experiences. A season of movement, collaboration, and community—from surreal worlds and city-wide dance activations to bold new collaborations and intimate artist showcases.

If you’ve been looking for a way to experience the full season with us, this is it.

Secure your Season ALCHEMY Pass today and join us for every step of the journey.

Available now — link in bio.





06/19/2026

To move freely is no small thing.

Today, we’re holding gratitude for the bodies, stories, and communities that came before us—those who made space for joy, expression, creativity, and gathering even when the world made that difficult.

As a Black-owned dance company, we carry that legacy with us. In the studio. On the stage. In the ways we care for one another and create community through movement.

Today is for celebration. For reflection. For music, laughter, family, and the simple act of moving together.

Happy Juneteenth.





The needle drops. A new season begins.We’ve got a feeling about this one.projectALCHEMY’s 2026–2027 Season is filled wit...
06/10/2026

The needle drops. A new season begins.

We’ve got a feeling about this one.

projectALCHEMY’s 2026–2027 Season is filled with bold ideas, moving bodies, unexpected collaborations, and a little bit of groove. From surrealist explorations and city-wide activations to intimate showcases and a disco-infused reimagining of a Shakespeare classic, this season invites you to step onto the dance floor with us.

Momentum Choreographers Showcase: Moving Surreal
September 29 & October 6, 2026

MIXed: Pulse of the City
November 19–21, 2026

Midsummer at the Disco
A collaboration with Jobsite Theater
April 2–3, 2027

Momentum Choreographers Showcase: Alum Night
April 22–23, 2027

New stories. New collaborations. New reasons to gather.
We’ll see you under the lights.


 
 
 


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