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CENTRIFUGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND

CENTRIFUGE | A New Hub for Choreographers (Scholarship fund!)

 New Paltz, NY, US
  • $135 raised of $20,000 goal
  • 1 donations
  • 24 days left
This is a Fiscally-Sponsored Project

Fiscally Sponsored by Fractured Atlas

Our Mission

If you love dance, love NYC, and want to see independent dance transform into something more physically compelling, edgy, and alive—then we’re on the same page.
While traditional dance education often operates within rigid, demanding systems, CENTRIFUGE takes a different approach. We’re focused, direct, and efficient, putting the artists at the center of everything we do.
Our mission is simple: to provide choreographers with the opportunity to hone their craft, create unique and authentic movement material, and develop a distinctive choreographic voice. This is where dance breaks free from the conventional, and where bold, innovative work takes shape.

CENTRIFUGE Maker Madison McGain. Photograph by Zui Gomez.

Promising Dancemakers

We look for committed artists who are ready to take on a challenge to further realize their choreographic vision and get hands-on experience with professional, experienced guidance. As part of the expanding community that is forming through CENTRIFUGE, we want to reach more choreographers who possess a promise and talent that can ripen through further nourishment, stimulation, structure, and experience, and who may struggle to get through the door elsewhere due to a lack of credentials for overwhelming and highly competitive application processes, or who don't have access to industry cliques for networking and securing opportunities to engage in the craft. 

These artists are an important group in the dance ecosystem but often due to lack of resources, these artists are not in a position to pay for programs like ours. This is why we launched this campaign, to raise funding for scholarships for CENTRIFUGE. So we can grant some dance makers the opportunity to engage with us at no cost. And this is why we need your support!

A Hub. Not a Workshop

CENTRIFUGE is a unique program and community where promising choreographers come together weekly to meet with renowned guest artists and are joined by dancers to collaborate in making movement material in real time through new tools and prompts.
Guest Artist Emilie Leriche (left) and CENTRIFUGE Curator Omri Drumlevich (right) in a feedback session with CENTRIFUGE makers. Photograph by Zui Gomez
Each session is thoughtfully curated to provide a challenging and inspiring environment of exploration and experimentation, embracing time pressure and risk-taking. Our focus is on building skillful, virtuosic, and healthy artistic exchange, where choreographers are encouraged to push their creative boundaries and explore complex movement themes; and where dancers get the opportunity to work with choreographers in a process-oriented environment and make new and meaningful connections.

An end-of-session showing. Photograph by Zui Gomez


At CENTRIFUGE, we create a space where collaboration, experimentation, and artistic risk-taking are at the core of the process, allowing dance artists to connect deeply with themselves and their peers. The program is a unique space where dancemakers of different tiers and levels of experience get together to push the boundaries of dance and nourish each other's curiosity and creativity.
Learn more about CENTRIFUGE.

Makers and Dancers at work during a 10-minute challenge. Photograph by Zui Gomez

Transcending inequity | Promoting True Artistry

As the program was first offered in October 2024, it became clear very quickly that it was long overdue. The NYC dance community needs this space and for it to truly contribute to the advancement of dance and choreography in a way that transcends financial status and background, we need to raise funding to offer scholarships for the program to promising artists. 

While the scholarship fund's main goal is to invite promising young choreographers to participate, it is also our intention to provide subsidies to talented dancers between jobs so they will be able to come and collaborate with makers in our sessions for free or for a reduced price.
 
CENTRIFUGE Makers Anna Rice (right) and Amanda Krisch (left) in collaboration. Photograph by Zui Gomez.

Your Impact Matters

Your generosity and support will keep us going on our mission to make dance in NYC move forward and reclaim its spot as one of the leading dance scenes globally.
Each donation impacts an artist directly and will affect their trajectory and artistic growth.

Let's Stay In Touch!
Follow us on social media to get constant updates and exclusive behind-the-scenes content from our sessions at @to_the_blisspoint and subscribe to our newsletter for more ongoing information and content. 

Rewards

Featured

Creative Partner

Donate $50.00 or more

Amount is fully tax-deductible.

Thanks to you, we can continue pushing towards more physically compelling dance. 
Enjoy an open invitation to observe one of our sessions and meet the choreographers enrolled in the program. 

Supporter

Donate $5.00 or more

Amount is fully tax-deductible.

We appreciate your support, every contribution impacts a dancer/ choreographer who will enjoy the program thanks to your generosity. 

Community Builder

Donate $15.00 or more

Amount is fully tax-deductible.

You are actively supporting a community of active dance artists and we appreciate your generosity. 

Movement Enthusiast

Donate $35.00 or more

Amount is fully tax-deductible.

When you see dancers in the studio, know that one of them was there thanks to your contribution. 

Limited Edition- 'Cosmic Storm'- CENTRIFUGE T-shirt

Donate $35.00 or more

Amount over $25.00 is tax-deductible.

When you look good, we look good. Support dance and enjoy a great T-shirt designed by Zina Zinchenko.

Artistic Ally

Donate $125.00 or more

Amount over $25.00 is tax-deductible.

Your support encourages us to keep going and directly affects artists in the studio. Enjoy an open invitation to observe one of our sessions and receive a limited edition CENTRIFUGE T-shirt designed by Zina Zinchenko. 

Sponsor

Donate $350.00 or more

Amount is fully tax-deductible.

Your generous contribution will grant one choreographer a full scholarship for a full round of 4 sessions. 
Enjoy an open invitation to observe one of our sessions and meet the choreographers enrolled in the program. 
Additionally, you and one guest will be invited to an exclusive open session.

Patron

Donate $555.00 or more

Amount over $25.00 is tax-deductible.

Your contribution will grant one choreographer a full scholarship for one round of 4 sessions. Additionally, you are giving one dancer in need the gift of a free punchcard for 4 drop-in sessions. 
Enjoy an open invitation to observe one of our sessions, receive a limited edition CENTRIFUGE T-shirt designed by Zina Zinchenko, and an exclusive invitation for you and one guest to a special open session. 
Additionally, join Omri Drumlevich for a coffee in NYC to talk about life, dance and CENTRIFUGE. 

Choreographic Champion

Donate $1,200.00 or more

Amount over $125.00 is tax-deductible.

You are helping us offer three full scholarships for one round of 4 sessions. That is incredibly impactful for 3 promising choreographers. 
Enjoy all the perks listed so far + a private movement coaching session with the program curator Omri Drumlevich. 

Dance Maker

Donate $2,500.00 or more

Amount over $125.00 is tax-deductible.

Dance is being made better thanks to you. Your strong encouragement fuels us to fulfill our mission of advancing gifted dancemakers and creating a space for them to thrive. 
Enjoy all perks listed so far a private conversation with CENTRIFUGE choreographers.