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.

Atlantic Center for the Arts Mentoring Artist-in-Residence Program

The three-week Residency Program brings together three “Mentoring Artists” from different disciplines, such as the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, film/video, and multimedia), architecture, music (composition and performance), literature, choreography, […]

New Wave Dance Festival 2024

Get ready to make waves in the world of dance as we open the doors to The 5th Annual New Wave Dance Festival, presented by AkomiDance! New Wave Dance Festival […]

South Arts: Presentation Grants

Grants up to $9,500 for organizations to present a Southern artist for a performing arts, literary arts, visual arts, or film engagement. The following is a top-level list of the […]

BalletCollective’s Commission for Developing Choreographers

BalletCollective’s Commission for Developing Choreographers is open to members of the dance community who have prior professional choreography experience. The selected choreographer will be asked to commission, with BalletCollective’s support […]

Palm Desert Choreography Festival

Dedicated to the advancement of dance as an art form, specifically through the support and promotion of quality choreography, this festival includes a choreography competition, outreach projects, workshops, residencies and […]

UNCSA Choreographic Institute Residency

The Choreographic Institute is a four-week residency designed to foster the development of new work by emerging choreographers of exceptional promise. Through this initiative, UNCSA School of Dance looks to […]

South Arts Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant

The Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant supports a milestone opportunity in an individual artist’s career that is likely to lead to substantial and significant career advancement. Grants of up to […]

Doris Duke Foundation Grant

The mission of the Doris Duke Foundation is to build a more creative, equitable and sustainable future by investing in artists and the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research, child […]

Dancemakers Residency

Apply to the Boston Dancemakers Residency! Considered Boston’s most comprehensive dance-focused residency, the Boston Dancemakers Residency is designed to support new work from conception to performance. Produced through a partnership between Boston Center […]