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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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