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.

The season begins by looking a little differently.At how we grow.
At what we yearn for.
At who we contain.At what waits ...
09/14/2026

The season begins by looking a little differently.
At how we grow.
At what we yearn for.
At who we contain.
At what waits when we turn inward.

Four choreographers bring four new dance works into conversation with Dalí, architecture, identity, dreams, memory, and imagination for Momentum Choreographers Showcase: Moving Surreal.

Created by Curvacia Elysée, Victoria Gonzalez, Sami Mangione, and Aynsleigh Morehouse through projectALCHEMY’s Momentum Choreographic Mentorship, each work begins with a different curiosity—and invites us to see something familiar from another angle.

Rather than remaining in one place, audiences will move through The Dalí Museum on a guided performance journey, encountering each work within the space that has become part of its world.

Four artists. Four ways of looking.
Move inside the surreal.

Momentum Choreographers Showcase: Moving Surreal
Presented in collaboration with The Dalí Museum
September 29 + October 6 | 7:30 p.m.
📍 The Dalí Museum
🎟️ Tickets are available now at the link in bio.

📸 Sarah Hamilton

09/14/2026

Every new journey begins somewhere.

In the studio, our Artistic Director and apprentices are stepping into the early creation of a new work inspired by The Fool—the tarot card of beginnings, possibility, trust, and stepping toward the unknown.

The movement begins with something simple: a three-card reading.

Rather than interpreting the cards only through conversation, we’re asking what happens when we move them. An image becomes a gesture. A feeling becomes a pathway. A reading becomes something embodied, shared, and reshaped through the dancers in the room.
It’s an early experiment in starting again—resetting, taking the first step, and allowing the body to discover what might come next.

No finished answers yet. Just cards on the table, bodies in the room, and a new journey beginning.

The Fool takes the first step. We follow.

TarotInMovement

09/02/2026

spiral and unwind

A glimpse new work in process by company artist Jonah Perez-Lopez


 
 


09/02/2026

the new work draft is coming together with help from St Pete based band Soft Cuff

See this and more at MIXed: Pulse of the City November 20-21 at The Studio@620. This event is a part of Arts Everywhere
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Momentum Choreographers Showcase: Moving SurrealThe season begins by looking a little differently.At how we grow.
At wha...
08/30/2026

Momentum Choreographers Showcase: Moving Surreal
The season begins by looking a little differently.

At how we grow.
At what we yearn for.
At what waits when we turn inward.
At who we contain.

Four choreographers bring four new dance works into conversation with Dalí, architecture, identity, dreams, memory, and imagination for Momentum Choreographers Showcase: Moving Surreal.
Created by Curvacia Elysée, Victoria Gonzalez, Sami Mangione, and Aynsleigh Morehouse through projectALCHEMY’s Momentum Choreographic Mentorship, each work begins with a different curiosity—and invites us to see something familiar from another angle.

Sami Mangione

Looking at how we grow.

For Sami Mangione, growth is not a straight line—it spirals.
Using The Dalí’s spiral staircase as both landscape and metaphor, Sami’s trio moves through cycles of returning, revisiting, and progressing. The body may arrive somewhere familiar, but it never returns quite the same.

Growth circles back. And somehow, still moves forward.

Victoria Gonzalez

Looking at what we yearn for.

For Victoria Gonzalez, yearning lives somewhere between dreaming and obsession—the desire for something so deeply that its pursuit can begin to consume us.

Through movement, spoken word, and audience participation, Victoria explores the trying, the setbacks, the hope, and the suffering we sometimes create when we want a different reality from the one we are living.

What happens when we loosen our grip without letting go of the dream?

Curvacia Elysée

Looking inward.

For Curvacia Elysée, dreams carry more than images. They can carry messages, warnings, intuition, and traces of cultural memory.

Her solo brings Dalí’s fascination with dreams into conversation with her own heritage while marking a deeply personal shift in her choreographic practice. After years of making for others, Curvacia turns the gaze toward herself—choosing to create, perform, and allow herself to be seen.

Sometimes the most surreal journey is the one inward.

Aynsleigh Morehouse

Looking at who we contain.

Dancer. Teacher. Artist. Friend. One body can hold many selves.

Drawing from the multidimensional nature of Dalí’s imagery, Aynsleigh Morehous

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.


 
 
 


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