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.

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 deepen its mission of developing original works, supporting artists, and giving back to the broader community. The UNCSA Choreographic Institute is open to emerging choreographers […]

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 $2,000 are available to support eligible proposed and completed (retroactive) opportunities taking place between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024. Eligibility: Be an individual […]

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 well-being and greater mutual understanding among diverse communities. The Performing Arts Technologies Lab is both a grant and a support system designed to expand access […]

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 for the Arts (BCA) and Boston Dance Alliance (BDA), this intensive Dancemakers Residency offers incubation elements for research, experimentation, artistic risk-taking, and growth within the […]

Miami DanceMakers

Launched in 2021, Miami DanceMakers (MDM) is an annual six-month professional development and community engagement program that supports emerging Dance Artists by offering a stipend, mentorship, workshops, and networking and performance opportunities.  Each year, six promising Dance Artists are selected and paired with performing arts organizations in Miami that serve as Creative Development Partners offering […]

Dance Ireland Residency

The Dance Ireland Residency Programme exists to support dance artists to develop ideas for a new dance work, engage in artistic research, and maintain a studio practice. Residencies are aimed at non-funded artists or projects. We offer support through fully subsidised studio space at Dance House, Dublin. Residencies are aimed at non-funded artists or projects. […]

National Endowment For the Arts

The NEA strengthens the dance ecosystem by supporting applicants doing essential work in their own organizations and local communities that contribute to a more robust, equitable, and accessible dance field; that centers and reflects a vibrant, diverse spectrum of dance artists; and that ultimately creates resilient, artful communities. We value proposals from organizations of all […]

NYSCA Support for Artists

NYSCA offers support to choreographers in any dance genre for the creation of a new work. Grants are directed solely toward a choreographer's creative fee, exclusive of production expenses or other costs related to the project. While collaborations are welcome, only the principal artist may receive funding. These awards may either be commissioned by the […]

New England Dance Fund

The New England Dance Fund awards grants to New England-based choreographers of all genres and backgrounds who identify an opportunity that will advance their careers in dance. To be eligible for the New England Dance Fund, choreographers must Have a CreativeGround profile with DANCE as the primary discipline. Reside full-time and create in one of […]

Art Space Is Your Space

The Wave Pool Art Space Is Your Space Program awards sponsored residencies to local, national, and international artists interested in engaging Cincinnati with their artistic practice. Residencies of 2-6 weeks include flexible live/work studio space, a month long exhibition in our gallery (when appropriate), opportunities for artistic community engagement and programming, and a $2000 stipend […]

National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant

Modeled on NEFA’s National Dance Project, NTP not only provides funding but also animates an informed, interactive network of producing theaters, presenters, and ensembles that promote the funded projects and the development of the field as a whole. Projects are supported through Creation & Touring Grants, which fund creation and preparation for touring of devised […]

Dora Maar Residency

Since 2007, the ‘Nancy B. Negley Artists Residency Program’, based at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, has offered residencies of one to two months to mid-career arts and humanities professionals to focus on their areas of expertise. The program was originally directed by Katherine Howe along with the Brown Foundation and Museum of […]