About PearlArts

PearlArts is a dance-focused arts organization that exists to celebrate and explore the full range of Blackness and Culture through dynamic performances and experiences. PearlArts facilitates innovative collaborations, artistic residencies, and a broad range of creative dance and sound educational opportunities. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PearlArts also provides music and media arts programming. PearlArts support’s a cohort of Black cultural organizations in a self-determined process aimed at achieving their goals that may both lead them to long-term and measurable success and concurrently position them for broader regional and national support. PearlArts is the creative parent organization for STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos and Tuff Sound Recording and was founded by choreographer Staycee Pearl & sound engineer Herman Pearl.

PearlArts is operating in-residence at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater Alloy Studios for 2021 - 2023 as part of the PearlArts @ KST Mutual Aid Residency. Learn more here.

If you are interested in renting studio space, please check out the Kelly Strayhorn Alloy Studios here.