Why support Confluence?

• We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

• We are a professional ballet company born to positively disrupt ballet by rejecting historical barriers and traditional norms of dancer treatment.

• We are creating, and teaching, dance free from the constraints of racial inequity and stigmas surrounding body type.

• We produce works of the highest caliber in classical, neoclassical, and contemporary genres while creating a positive environment in which artists can grow, collaborate and thrive.

• We are committed to transforming communities through our performance art and education.

What problems do your tax-deductible contributions solve?

• Ballet is facing irrelevance due to exclusion (of audiences and dancers alike) and toxic organizational cultures.

• Artists and their vital contributions to sustainable communities are not properly valued.

• Exceptional dancers are marginalized for attributes having nothing to do with dance excellence.

• Who is telling the stories, who the stories are about, needs to be decentered.

• A vibrant, engaging arts scene is essential to keeping and attracting talent in the Pittsburgh region.

• Bold, innovative risk-taking in art enables the creative environment in which technology innovation flourishes.

• Performing arts are a catalyst for community building, human connection, societal
  transcendence.