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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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; […]

  • 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 […]