In this week's Road Trip: Close to Home, News 12 gets a glimpse into a performance space that gives a voice to underrepresented communities in the Bronx and beyond.

It's more than just pirouettes and sashays at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. The academy's artistic director calls it a sort of safe haven for Bronx-based artists.

Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance is a performance venue focused on empowering the work of women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ communities through dance, theater and storytelling.

The executive director refers to the art form as "poetry in motion."