ABOUT

Snack Break Movement Arts (SBMA) is a street dance theater and Hip Hop education collaborative led by artists Joshua Culbreath and Emily Culbreath. Founded in 2021, SBMA engages Hip Hop and street dance as living cultural knowledge systems—embodied practices shaped by memory, resistance, joy, and collective imagination.

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Guided by the values of the Hip Hop cypher—exchange, improvisation, collective storytelling, and shared authorship—SBMA creates performance, educational, and community-based projects where movement functions as inquiry rather than fixed product. Work develops through long-form, iterative processes that include residencies, workshops, freestyle sessions, and immersive concert stage works, emphasizing witnessing, experimentation, and sustained relationships with artists, students, and communities.

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Joshua and Emily bring distinct but complementary frameworks into their collaboration. Joshua’s practice examines performance and character as modes of cultural transmission and empathy, informed by Hip Hop theater and cultural diplomacy. Emily’s auto-ethnographic approach centers embodied critical reflexivity and Africanist storytelling models, prioritizing collective transformation through process rather than conclusion. Together, these approaches shape SBMA’s interdisciplinary performances and pedagogical work.

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Across community spaces, university classrooms, and performance settings, SBMA supports artists as culture bearers, honoring Hip Hop’s foundational lineages while creating space for new voices, questions, and futures to emerge.