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

October 13th: Community Arts Grant - Zellerbach Family Foundation Deadline 3, October 13th: Asian American Ballet Project: Choreographer Residency Program, October 14th: Shubert Foundation Dance Grant, October 20th: 2026 Dance Film Commission, October 22nd: Perform Europe Open Call, November 1st: Howard Fellowship, December 1st: Culture Forward Grant - The Svane Family Foundation Deadline 3, 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

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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.

  • A&A Ballet: DIVE Award Competition

    An online choreography competition.  There will be three age groups for the competition and the winner of each age group will received a scholarship of $1,000 toward any of A&A Ballet's programs for the summer of 2020. This choreography competition is an extension of the A&A Ballet DIVE program, a program that emphasizes dance as a […]

  • Harvard University- Radcliffe Fellowship Program

    Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, practitioners, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world. Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. A fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from usual […]

  • Brooklyn Arts Council- Community Arts Grants

    Brooklyn-based artists, artist collectives and non-profit organizations are invited to apply for up to $5,000 to Local Arts Support to support projects in all disciplines occurring in Brooklyn throughout 2021. These grants are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Brooklyn-based […]

  • The Guggenheim Fellowship

    The Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. The Foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications each year. Although no one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition, there is no prescreening: all applications are reviewed. Approximately 175 Fellowships are awarded each year.

  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council- Manhattan Arts Grants

    With support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts, LMCC’s Creative Engagement and Creative Learning programs provide technical support to applicants and awards of up to $9,000 to enable hundreds of arts projects in all disciplines, serving communities from Inwood to The Battery. With support from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone […]

  • Art Fields 2021 Competition

    We accept visual art projects that include film, new media, digital, installation, and performance.  Our top four prizes (Grand Prize, Second Place, People's Choice 2D, and People's Choice 3D) are monetary prizes that accompany the transfer of ownership rights to ArtFields.  If a performance piece were to win any of those, the intellectual rights to […]