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.
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
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
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.
Opportunities: ACT International Festival for Emerging Performing Artists (Bilabao, Spain) Deadline – 20/12/2025
Opportunity: ACT International Festival for Emerging Performing ArtistsWhere: Bilbao, SpainWhen: 4-6 June 2026Deadline: 20/12/2025Online Application:Fee to Participate or Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSck8CZtatEaKYKwMouL6sXY_ZSpvgXd7FunCC0VFQQM9PbfDA/viewform Description Of Opportunity: ACT is a three-day festival that brings together annually a hundred of participants and guests from around the world. The
Can Survival Be Choreographed? Gisèle Vienne’s Extra Life at the Holland Festival
In Extra Life at the Holland Festival, Gisèle Vienne sculpts fog, sound, and time into a choreography of survival, tracing how bodies persist after trauma.
Opportunities: Selection of performances for Opera Prima Festival XXII (Rovigo, Italy) Deadline – 7th December 2025
Opportunity: Selection of performances for Opera Prima Festival XXII Where: Rovigo, Italy When: 10 / 14 June 2026 Deadline: 7th December 2025 Online Application: https://www.festivaloperaprima.it/images/2026/Inglese_-_Bando_opera_prima_2026.pdf Fee to Participate or Apply: 0,00 Description Of Opportunity: CALL FOR ENTRIES “OPERA PRIMA 2026” The call
Oh! The (Body) Horror: Susie Wang’s Burnt Toast at Skirball Center
Is it a hotel? Is it Hell? Why is everyone obsessed and slurping on the complimentary eggnog drink? Burnt Toast at The Skirball Center in NYC, by the Norwegian company Susie Wang, opens inside an all-red hotel lobby that feels like No
Opportunities: Teatri Riflessi 11 | International Short Performance Competition (Zafferana Etnea) Deadline – 1 November 2025, 22:00 (CET)
Opportunity: Teatri Riflessi 11 | International Short Performance Competition Where: Zafferana Etnea When: 16-19 July 2026 Deadline: 1 November 2025, 22:00 (CET) Online Application: www.iterculture.eu/en/teatri-riflessi/teatri-riflessi-2026-en/tr11/ Fee to Participate or Apply: Free Description Of Opportunity: Teatri Riflessi 11 – International Short Performance Competition
Łukasz Twarkowski’s ROTHKO at the Holland Festival: A Copy of a Copy of a Copy
Łukasz Twarkowski’s ROTHKO, seen at the 2025 Holland Festival, blurs the line between original and fake, theater and screen. Live-feed video, rotating Chinese restaurant sets, and a double-timeline narrative fracture theatrical time into something disorienting, dazzling, and deeply of this moment.
Transform Your Practice: MFA in Theatre and Performance at Sarah Lawrence
Apply now for Sarah Lawrence’s MFA in Theatre and Performance. Interdisciplinary, collaborative, and based near New York City.
Opportunities: Lugar Futuro 2026 (Viseu, Portugal) Deadline – 31 october 2026
Opportunity: Lugar Futuro 2026 Where: Viseu When: 26 to 29 March 2026 Deadline: 31 October 2026 Online Application: https://www.lugarpresente.com/open-call—2026.html Fee to Participate or Apply: Free Description Of Opportunity: LUGAR FUTURO (FUTURE PLACE) Internacional Youth Dance Festival 26 to 29 march 2026, Viseu,
Opportunities: (Online and Bled (Slovenia)) Deadline – 19.9.2025
Opportunity: Where: Online and Bled (Slovenia) When: October 2025 – June 2026 Deadline: 19.9.2025 Online Application: http://enuntiatio-praefatio-formulae.com/APPLICATION/ Fee to Participate or Apply: 600 EUR / 400 EUR [students] / 250 [auditors]* Description Of Opportunity: enuntiatio.praefatio.formulae [OPEN CALL] RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR ARTISTIC RESEARCH
Opportunities: Teatri Riflessi 11 – International Short Performance Competition (Zafferana Etnea, Sicily, Italy) Deadline – 1 November 2025 (22:00 CET)
Opportunity: Teatri Riflessi 11 – International Short Performance Competition Where: Zafferana Etnea, Sicily, Italy When: 16-19 July 2026 Deadline: 1 November 2025 (22:00 CET) Online Application: Digital form. Free application Fee to Participate or Apply: 0.00 Description Of Opportunity: Teatri Riflessi has
Opportunities: Differenti Sensazioni 2025/26 (officine CAOS, Turin, Italy) Deadline – 31 August 2025
Opportunity: Differenti Sensazioni 2025/26 Where: officine CAOS, Turin, Italy When: Nov 2025 / Apr 2026 Deadline: 31 August 2025 Online Application: https://www.officinecaos.net/index.php/en/opencall2025-26en/ Fee to Participate or Apply: 0 Description Of Opportunity: officine CAOS is seeking for emerging artists, working in the fields
Image, Ritual, Collapse: Romeo Castellucci and Isabelle Huppert’s Bérénice at Holland Festival
Romeo Castellucci reimagines Racine’s Bérénice at the 2025 Holland Festival in a stunning performance of image, ritual, and collapse.
Choreographies of Collapse: Performance in a Time of Climate Reckoning – Reading the Field – June 2025
Explore how contemporary performance artists engage climate collapse through site-specific rituals, ecological movement, and embodied environmental resistance.
Opportunities: Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency 2026 (Singapore) Deadline – 22 June 2025
Esplanade Singapore invites international performance artists to apply for its 2026 Research Residency. Theme: “This Time.” Deadline: June 22.
Call for Proposals – Prague Quadrennial Symposium on 60 Years of Scenography (Apply by May 31)
PQ invites proposals for an online symposium exploring its 60-year history in scenography, curating, and cultural exchange. Deadline: May 31.
Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025 Highlights: Ecstasy, Grief, Resistance
From ecstatic choreography and queer slow time to rituals of repair and unlearning, Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025 brings together performances that challenge, unravel, and reimagine how we live together. This feature explores five standout works from this year’s program and the urgent questions they
IBERICA Performance Art Residency & Festival – Apply by June 10, 2025
Apply for IBERICA, a performance art residency and festival in Spain. Free lodging, artist talks, and live presentations. Deadline: June 10.
Trans Oral History Fellowship – Apply by June 15, 2025
Apply to the Trans Studies at the Commons Fellowship, supporting oral history projects that expand trans archives. $10,000 stipend and retreat.
Self-Organizations – Mophradat Grant for Artist-Run Initiatives (Apply by June 10, 2025)
Mophradat’s Self-Organizations program offers up to €8,000 in funding for collaborative, self-organized arts initiatives in the Arab world. Deadline: June 10, 2025.
No Soft Returns: Performance at the Edge of the Body – Reading the Field – May 2025
Five artists reclaim the body as rupture, resistance, and ritual. Explore extreme embodiment in this month’s Reading the Field from Contemporary Performance.
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