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.

GRACE 2025 (Individual Artist Grants)

The purpose of the Grants for Regional Arts and Culture Engagement Program is to create access and support of the arts to the geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse segments across CNY Arts’ six-county service area. In 2025, a total of $251,000 will be distributed in arts, culture, history, and heritage grants to individual artists and […]

Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency

This residency supports artists in Northern California who are in their early to mid-career stage with free studio space and up-to-date equipment to create new work in the time-based arts such as theater, performance, dance, movement, music, sound art, instrument invention, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary work. Artists also receive a stipend of up […]

Carmel Dance Festival Dance Fellowship

CDF is thrilled to offer its 2nd annual Dance & Choreography Fellowship Program. This 10-day immersion is designed to provide dancers and choreographers with a TRANSFORMATIONAL in-person experience in a stimulating and productive environment. Throughout the fellowship, dancers will work closely with guest mentor Alex Ketley, Ballare Carmel Artistic Director Lillian Barbeito, and Ballare Company […]

Community Arts Grant Program

The City of Burbank Parks and Recreation Department and the Burbank Cultural Arts Commission are pleased to announce the second funding cycle for the Community Arts Grant Program. The Purpose of the program is to support local artists and arts organizations and to engage Burbank residents with diverse and outstanding cultural arts projects. Applicants must […]

Cultural Sustainability

Cultural Sustainability grants range from $20,000-$100,000, with partial funding opportunities to also fall within that range. No grantees will be awarded at less than 80% of their initial request. Applicant organizations must have reported under $500,000 in annual operating expenses in their two most recent fiscal years’ tax filings (Form 990, Form 1065, or Form […]

2025 Bronx Dance Fund

The Bronx Dance Fund (BDF) seeks to nurture the development of artists and organizations that comprise the field of dance in the Bronx. To achieve this goal, the Bronx Dance Fund (BDF) will support individual Bronx-based dancers, choreographers, and dance companies with grants of up to $7,500 for general operating or project-based support, including capacity […]

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need* who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography. Only generative artists are eligible—artists creating their own, independent work, with recent and ongoing opportunities for the public to experience that […]

CounterPointe Choreographers Call

Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Art announces a call for choreographers for its 12th annual season of CounterPointe: new work by women choreographers and their collaborations with women artists. Performances are March 7-9, 2025 at The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund in Brooklyn. We are interested in producing a program […]

University of Illinois Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship

The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship is offered to students seeking advanced studies in architecture, art, dance, landscape architecture, music, theatre, or urban and regional planning. This award is to be used by the recipients toward defraying the expenses of advanced study in the United States or abroad. The fellowships are open to graduates of […]

Public Art for Spatial Justice

Public Art for Spatial Justice aims to support public artmaking that helps us see, feel, experience and imagine spatial justice now, while we are still on this journey towards realizing more just futures for our public spaces and public culture. Public Art for Spatial Justice grants range from $15,000-$30,000, for up to two-year grant period […]

2024 Idea Capital Grant

Idea Capital makes grants ranging from $1000 to $5000 to metropolitan Atlanta artists to encourage experimental and investigative art projects, including the awarding of one travel grant. We seek to foster a new tone of experimentation and support in the Atlanta art world, as well as encourage a larger framework of support. Applicants must meet […]

Ajkun Ballet Theatre

Inspired by the philosophy of artistic director and cultural leader Dr. Chiara Ajkun, the AjkunBT Fund is enthused by the United States Mutual Education and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (Fulbright-Hayes), a cornerstone of public diplomacy and an integral component of the foreign policy of the United States of America. The mission of the AjkunBT […]