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 Professional Development & Artistic Planning Grants

These grants offer up to $1,000 to support artistic planning and the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators. Be a tax-exempt nonprofit, an official unit of local, county, state government, or a federally recognized tribal community based within South Arts' nine-state service area (AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, or […]

South Arts Professional Development & Artistic Planning Grants

These grants offer up to $1,000 to support artistic planning and the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators. Be a tax-exempt nonprofit, an official unit of local, county, state government, or a federally recognized tribal community based within South Arts' nine-state service area (AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, or […]

Women in Dance International Film Festival

Submission Guidelines: The film must be created, directed, and choreographed by women Must be between 8-15 minutes in length Any movement style is encouraged Please only submit a complete work, any excerpts or longer work that needs edits will not be considered If submit a link that is password-protected, please provide the correct password There […]

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. In its Arts and Culture program, Mellon makes grants to institutions and organizations in […]

Arts in Society Grant

Arts in Society is a collaborative grant-making program that fosters cross-sector work through the arts by supporting the integration of arts and culture into multiple disciplines critical to the health and well-being of Coloradans. The program, which is administered by RedLine Contemporary Art Center and funded through a cohort of Colorado foundations, provides grants ranging […]

Sadie-Rose Residency Program

The Sadie-Rose Residency Program provides one week of rehearsal space (up to 6 hours a day based on studio availability) for selected choreographers. In addition, each artist-in-residence will engage with our local community by teaching one movement class that is open to the public. SpectorDance will also provide housing with a local family if available, […]

MacDowell Colony Residency

MacDowell is the nation’s leading artist residency program. MacDowell nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. About 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. There are […]

Hodder Fellowship

The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are […]

Dance/NYC’s Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program

Made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation, the purpose of the fellowship program is to recognize the critical role that disabled dance workers and arts practitioners play in social justice movements and to ensure that these workers are supported while continuing to place disability front and center as a positive artistic and […]

Carmel Dance Festival Choreography 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.  Choreographers will be given time, space, dancers, production support, and feedback sessions to create or revisit their work. The experience will […]

ArtFields 2024

ArtFields started in 2013 with a simple goal: honor the artists of the Southeast with 9 days worth of celebration and competition while revitalizing a small Southern town. The competition and exhibition offers over $100,000 in cash prizes. The winners of two People’s Choice Awards are determined by the votes of people visiting ArtFields; a […]

Camille A Brown & Dancers’ (CABD) Mentorship Program

Camille A Brown & Dancers’ (CABD) Mentorship Program will pair a developing or emerging Black artist with one of CABD’s accomplished Company Members or Alumni – members 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 […]