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.

  • 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 […]

  • artsHERE Initiative

    Through grants and peer learning opportunities, ArtsHERE invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming, with the goal of increasing arts participation for underserved groups/communities, and sharing insights that may inform similar funding programs in the future. artsHERE invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity […]

  • Arts Business Collaborative CoLearning Pilot Fellowship Community Program

    Arts Business Collaborative, through community-centered programs and culturally relevant services, helps to facilitate avenues for people of color, with an emphasis on Black, Latine and Indigenous, and their communities, to leverage the economic value of cultural capital and improve their quality of life by addressing barriers of access to capital, networks, and knowledge. We exist […]