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Residencies·Artist Opportunities·Featured

Artist Residency Los Angeles – Trans Music Archive Residency $1000 Stipend

$1000 stipend + 3-day recording residency at Vintage Synthesizer Museum The Trans Music Archive artist residency in Los Angeles offers a 3-day recording residency at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum with a $1000 stipend. This artist residency supports trans artists working in music

April 4, 2026

Artist Opportunities·Featured·Festival Calls·Grants/Funds·Open Calls

Artist Funding & Presentation – Netstalgia Not Acceptable Grants €1,500–€7,000

Grants from €1,500 to €7,000 + mentoring and online exhibition Netstalgia: Not Acceptable is an open call and artist funding for artists, curators, and technologists working with contemporary networked technologies. Selected projects will receive financial support, mentoring, and inclusion in an online

April 1, 2026

Featured·Artist Opportunities·Grants/Funds·Open Calls

Artist Funding – The Democracy Cycle 2026, New York City

$60,000 commission for new performance work The Democracy Cycle 2026 Open Call, led by PAC NYC and Civis Foundation, invites proposals for new performing arts works exploring themes related to democracy. The program commissions projects across theater, dance, music, opera, and multidisciplinary

March 31, 2026

Featured·Artist Opportunities·Grants/Funds·Open Calls·Residencies

Production Residency – Ausland Berlin (Up to €7,290 for Groups)

Apply to Ausland Production Residency Berlin. Groups of 4–6 receive €1215 per person, up to €7,290 total. Deadline April 19, 2026.

March 31, 2026

Festival Calls·Artist Opportunities·Featured

Open Call – Exponential Festival 2027, New York City

Open call for Exponential Festival in New York City. NYC-based experimental performance artists invited. Deadline June 1, 2026.

March 27, 2026

Residencies·Artist Opportunities·Featured

Artist Residency – Works & Process Residencies 2026 ($9,800 Artist Fees)

Apply to Works & Process 2026 artist residency. One-week residencies with up to $9,800 artist fees, housing, and travel support. Deadline April 21, 2026.

March 27, 2026

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Free Rehearsal Space – LMCC Arts Center, Governors Island (New York City)

LMCC offers free one-week rehearsal space for NYC-based performance and movement artists at Governors Island. Rolling applications.

March 26, 2026

Grants/Funds·Artist Opportunities·Featured

Artist Grant – Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art, New York City

Franklin Furnace FUND offers $2,000 to $10,000 grants for early-career performance artists presenting new work in New York City. Deadline April 1, 2026.

March 25, 2026

Ninety Percent of Everything Artist Residency

Residencies·Artist Opportunities·Featured·Open Calls

New Artist Residency – Ninety Percent of Everything, Genoa (Italy)

Apply to Ninety Percent of Everything artist residency in Genoa, Italy. €4,000–€8,000 support for data-driven sound and visual practices. Deadline April 2, 2026.

March 20, 2026

Performance Residency – LIVE WORKS Free School of Performance (€3,000 Fellowship)

Residencies·Featured·Grants/Funds

Performance Residency – LIVE WORKS Free School of Performance, Centrale Fies (Italy)

Performance Residency – LIVE WORKS Free School of Performance, Centrale Fies (Italy) €3,000 fellowship and multi-phase performance residency program LIVE WORKS – Free School of Performance is an international platform dedicated to contemporary performance practices organized by Centrale Fies in Dro, Italy.

March 14, 2026

Grants/Funds·Featured

Artist Grant – Creative Capital Award $50,000 Project Grant

The Creative Capital Award offers a $50,000 grant and professional development support for artists in the United States. Deadline April 3, 2026.

March 13, 2026

Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants - Susie Ibarra Image Credit: Tessa Fuqua

Grants/Funds·Featured

Open Call: Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (U.S.)

Grants of up to $20,000 for environmental art projects in the U.S. Open to women, transgender, and gender-nonconforming artists. Deadline April 7, 2026.

March 11, 2026

Residencies·Featured·Open Calls

Open Call: Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Residency, NYC 2026

Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Residency offers $4,000 stipend, rehearsal space, and performances for artists developing new work in New York City.

March 10, 2026

Featured·Grants/Funds·Open Calls

Open Call: The Shed Open Call $15,000 Commission, NYC Deadline Feb 24

The Shed Open Call offers a $15,000 commission and production support for early-career NYC-based artists. Deadline February 24, 2026.

February 19, 2026

Open Calls·Featured·Residencies

Open Call: ACC CREATORS Residency 2026

ACC CREATORS Residency 2026 open call. Five-month art and technology residency, July–Nov 2026. Submission Feb 13–March 1 2026.

February 17, 2026

Featured·Grants/Funds·Open Calls

Open Call: 2026 Franklin Furnace Jacki Apple Award, NYC | $10,000 Deadline May 1, 2026

Open call for mid and advanced-career NYC-based performance artists. The 2026 Jacki Apple Award provides $10,000 for a project. Deadline May 1, 2026.

February 12, 2026

Featured·Open Calls

Open Call: BAX Artist in Residence, Brooklyn | Deadline April 2, 2026

Open Call: BAX Artist in Residence (AIR) 2026–2028, Brooklyn, NY 18-month multidisciplinary performance residency for NYC-based artists, deadline April 2, 2026 Opportunity Snapshot Why You Might Apply If you are an artist working across embodied, movement-based, and multidisciplinary performance practices and seek

February 9, 2026

Featured·Open Calls

Open Call: Kyoto Retreat, Japan | Artist Retreat Deadline July 15, 2026

Open Call: Kyoto Retreat, Kyoto, Japan International retreat and research-based program for artists and cultural practitioners, deadline July 15, 2026 Opportunity Snapshot Why You Might Apply If you are looking for sustained time to think, research, and recalibrate your practice outside production

February 8, 2026

Performers arranged in sustained movement and proximity during my tongue is a blade by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born at The Dark Festival.

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The Dark Festival Highlights | PS21 Winter Performance Festival

Festival Highlights from The Dark 2026 at PS21, featuring works by Okwui Okpokwasili, Autumn Knight, Trisha Brown Dance Company, and Sister Sylvester across Columbia County, New York.

February 5, 2026

Artist Opportunities·Featured·Festival Calls·Open Calls

Opportunities: Open Call Mittelyoung 2026 (CIVIDALE DEL FRIULI) Deadline – 10.02.2026

Opportunity: Open Call Mittelyoung2026Where: CIVIDALE DEL FRIULI (33043) UDWhen: from 11.12.2025Deadline: 10.02.2026Online Application: www.mittelfest.org/en/mittelyoung/Fee to Participate or Apply: Free Open Call: Send your artistic project for a paid opportunity on the international stage of Mittelfest, the festival of Central Europe. The Open

December 26, 2025

Featured·Highlights

Under the Radar Festival Highlights – New York, January 7-25, 2025

Explore key highlights from the Under the Radar Festival, shaping contemporary performance in New York since 2005.

December 26, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Open Calls

Opportunities: Open Call – PQ Performance (Prague, Czechia) Deadline – January 31, 2025

Opportunity: Open Call – PQ Performance Where: Prague, Czechia When: June 2027 Deadline: January 31, 2025 Online Application: https://pq.cz/pq2027/open-calls/ Fee to Participate or Apply: Free of charge. Description Of Opportunity: Whatever form it takes, whatever atmosphere it evokes, scenography is an inseparable component

December 8, 2025

Tere O’Connor’s Construct-a-Guy and The Lace at New York Live Arts reveal forty years of choreographic multiplicity, precision, and expanded consciousness.

Featured·Featured Reviews·In Performance·Reviews

Tere O’Connor’s Construct-a-Guy and The Lace at New York Live Arts: Architectures of Multiplicity

Tere O’Connor’s Construct-a-Guy and The Lace at New York Live Arts bring forty years of choreographic thinking into a single program. These dances reveal O’Connor’s evolving architectures of multiplicity, rigor, and queer complexity, inviting audiences into a system of movement shaped by

December 5, 2025

Person interacting with robotic components.

Reviews·Featured·Featured Reviews

Fragile Bodies: Geumhyung Jeong’s Under Construction

At the Holland Festival, Geumhyung Jeong’s Under Construction turns robotics into ritual, revealing tenderness, care, and fragility between human and machine.

November 20, 2025

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