ABOUT

Artists Emily "Lady Em" Culbreath (MFA) and Joshua "Bboy Supa Josh" Culbreath (MFA) are Snack Break Movement Arts, a performance duo specializing in Hip Hop dance education, event curation, and interdisciplinary performance works inspired by street dance and Hip Hop culture. Respectively, Emily and Josh have served as rehearsal and assistant artistic directors for the renowned street dance theater company Rennie Harris Puremovement, have held positions as adjunct faculty at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and recently received their MFA degrees in dance/choreography from the University of Iowa in May, 2025. SBMA has shown original works at nationally and internationally acclaimed events such as Summer Dance Forever (NL), RADFest (MI), and The San Francisco International Dance Festival (CA) among others. They have held choreographic residencies at Franklin & Marshall College (2021), Georgian Court University (2022), and at Southern Illinois University's XFEST in Edwardsville, IL (2025).  Snack Break seeks to pay homage to the integrity of African-American vernacular dance while also challenging the way audiences consume street dance through the utilization of theatrics, the concert stage, multi-media, and contemporary movement practices. They aim to weave threads of connection through the power of storytelling.