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

October 30th: Kennesaw State University Choreographic Residency, November 1st: Howard Fellowship, November 5th: CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work, November 23rd: Camille A. Brown and Dancers Mentorship Program, 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 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

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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.

  • Summer 2027 International Residency Exchange

    Atland and Moulin/Belle are partnering up to offer an international self-directed artist-in-residence program for one group of dance artists/collaborators in 2027. The selected artist group will be awarded a week-long research residency period in Périgord, France from May 4-11, 2027 and a week-long residency in Western Massachusetts in August 2027 (we ask your date preferences […]

  • Tapestries Choreographic Program

    Tapestries Emerging Choreographers Program will commission three (3) emerging choreographers based in either Minnesota or NYC for Tapestries 11.0. They will be selected by an expert panel of dance/community leaders to create new works for the company’s spring season under the guidance of Artistic/Executive Director Karen L. Charles and additional feedback from their peer choreographers. […]

  • 2026 Dance Film Commission

    We're commissioning 3 short dance films from around the world! Each selected filmmaker will receive $5,000usd - please scope your idea and budget accordingly. Films should be between 3-10 minutes long. Rights: Filmmaker retains full copyright, we are here to uplift YOU. In exchange for the commission, Dance Filmmaking will receive exclusive distribution rights for […]

  • SPLIT BILL Series

    SPLIT BILL provides a platform for NYC-based dance and movement artists in the early stages of their careers to develop and premiere new work in a shared performance setting. The SPLIT BILL program includes: Three evening performance run Lighting design Production resources + support Marketing resources + support Funding strategies + project planning support Video […]

  • Perform Europe Open Call

    Perform Europe is a funding scheme offering EUR 1.4 million for performing arts collaborations across all 41 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe supports partnership proposals which reinvent the way we tour across borders. After two highly successful editions (2020-2022 / 2023-2026), Perform Europe will continue to put emphasis on exploring, with the performing arts sector, […]

  • Kennesaw State University Choreographic Residency

    The Choreographic Residency program at KSU invites two nationally-emerging or mid-career choreographers to the Department of Dance each summer for a four-week residency to create two world premieres on the KSU Dance Company. Invited choreographers will audition and select dancers, preferably for ten students, for which they will create an original choreographic a 30-minute group […]

  • Howard Fellowship

    The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation is an independent foundation administered at Brown University. It awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields, targeting its support specifically to early mid-career individuals, who have completed at least one major project and demonstrate potential to be future leaders in […]

  • CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work

    CHOP SHOP:  Bodies of Work is seeking U.S. or Canada-based dance companies and individual choreographers with contemporary dance work to be presented at the 15th festival, April 23-25, at Meydenbauer Center Theatre in Bellevue, WA. Approximately seven individual artists and/or dance companies will be selected to share their work in both festival performances. In addition […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]