Upcoming Deadlines | click here to see if you are eligible for any of these opportunities

November 23rd: Camille A. Brown and Dancers Mentorship Program, November 27th: Peripheral Vision International Photography and Film Festival, December 1st: Culture Forward Grant - The Svane Family Foundation Deadline 3, December 1st: Harkness Foundation for Dance Program/Project Grant, December 2nd: NYS Choreographers Initiative (NYSCI), December 7th: Dance Astoria: Call for Queens-Based Choreographers, December 31st: National Dance Project Presentation Grants - New England Foundation for the Arts, December 31st: National Dance Project Travel Fund, December 31st: New England Presenter Travel Fund, December 31st: Kit Modus In-person Choreographic Residency, December 31st: Gross Family Prize: Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation, December 31st: Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants, December 31st: Fertile Ground 2026-2027 Season, December 31st: WestFest: Top Floor 2027, December 31st: WestFest: All Over Westbeth 2027

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DDP has compiled the following list of upcoming deadlines for grants, fellowships, residencies, and competitions as a resource for dancers, students, choreographers, and other professionals in the dance industry. Please scroll below to view detailed information about each of these programs and opportunities.

  • Dance | NYC: Dance Workforce Resilience (DWR) Fund

    Made possible by the support of the Ford Foundation, New York Community Trust, and other generous funders, the purpose of the Dance Workforce Resilience (DWR) Fund is to promote fair labor practices and addresses wage inequities and precarious working conditions for individual freelance dancers by providing awards tied to formal contracts to dancers within the New […]

  • Camille A. Brown and Dancers Mentorship Program

    Camille A Brown & Dancers’ (CABD) Mentorship Program will pair a developing or emerging Black artist with one of CABD’s accomplished Alumni & Friends – who have performed concert dance on major stages around the world with Brown and other prominent choreographers, on television, film and Broadway (Fela!, Hamilton), and with leading Pop stars like […]

  • Peripheral Vision International Photography and Film Festival

    *There is a Dance Film Category in this Festival PERIPHERAL VISION INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY+FILM FESTIVAL - P>IPFF is an international platform dedicated to cinema and photography that explore perception beyond the obvious. The first edition of the P>IPFF is emerging — an event dedicated to those who use image not merely as a form, but as […]

  • Culture Forward Grant – The Svane Family Foundation Deadline 3

    Culture Forward is a $5 million grant initiative by The Svane Family Foundation supporting arts, entertainment, and culture in Downtown San Francisco. Beginning January 2025, Culture Forward will support creative projects that attract families, students, and young professionals to Downtown San Francisco. Grants are open to individual artists, collectives, and arts and culture organizations. Range […]

  • Harkness Foundation for Dance Program/Project Grant

    Program Grants and Project Grants range from $1,000–10,000/year (with some exceptions). Request Types: The Foundation currently offers Program Grants and Project Grants. Proposing organizations should specify which type of support they are seeking: Program grants include two categories: General operating support for a dance organization’s entire scope of activities; or Support for a particular ongoing […]

  • NYS Choreographers Initiative (NYSCI)

    The NYS Choreographers Initiative (NYSCI) is a program of the NYS DanceForce in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). NYSCI is designed to help individual choreographers, in all genres, develop their choreographic skills by providing them with resources that are generally unavailable or unaffordable in their area. These resources include a $3,000 […]

  • Dance Astoria: Call for Queens-Based Choreographers

    Dance Astoria is seeking Queens-based choreographers for our 2027 winter festival. This dance festival will be held indoors at Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, in Astoria, NY. The festival will take place from 1:00pm to 3:00pm on Sunday, February 7, 2026. Each year, the dancers and choreographers of all ages blow us away with their artistry […]

  • National Dance Project Presentation Grants – New England Foundation for the Arts

    Presentation Grants are made to U.S. nonprofit presenting organizations to support the engagements of NDP awarded projects on tour by subsidizing up to 50% of the artist's fee (including housing, per diem, and travel). NDP Presentation grants are made directly to U.S. nonprofit organizations (a.k.a. presenters) presenting NDP projects on tour to support up to […]

  • National Dance Project Travel Fund

    National Dance Project Travel Fund provides monetary assistance for U.S. based presenters, curatorial staff, and residency directors or for current NDP artist grantees to connect in person to explore feasibility of presenting NDP-funded projects. NDP Travel Fund grants can be used to cover mileage, economy class transportation, meals, lodging, admission to performances, and, where applicable, […]

  • New England Presenter Travel Fund

    Presenter Travel Fund enhances the performing arts in the region by supporting travel costs associated with researching artistic work that may eventually be presented in New England. Presenter Travel Fund grants to New England-based nonprofit organizations will cover up to 100% of travel feels up to $700, including mileage, economy class transportation, meals, lodging, admission, […]

  • Kit Modus In-person Choreographic Residency

    Selected artists enjoy an artists stipend, travel reimbursement, a cast of 5-10 professional dancers, and ample rehearsal time, plus access to studio space and accommodations in the artists' apartment on the grounds of the Callanwolde estate where the company is in residence. Choreographic teams are welcome to apply, although the artist stipend remains the same. […]

  • Gross Family Prize: Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation

    The next Gross Family Prize will be awarded to a choreographer and composer for the best original dance with original music which has had its premiere professional (by that we mean, paid admissions) performance within the past two years. The next prize will be given in 2027 for works performed in 2025 and 2026. Applications […]