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Artist Opportunities·Featured·Open Calls

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

November 14, 2025

The visual performance EXTRA LIFE - with music by Caterina Barbieri, breathtaking lighting design by Yves Godin and actors including the celebrated Adèle Haenel - explores the physical, psychological and imaginary aspects of trauma and recovery. Director, choreographer and past associate artist (2021) Gisèle Vienne (Charleville-Mézières, 1976) continues her study of how we perceive stories and psychological structures.

Featured·Featured Reviews·First Person·Reviews

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.

November 13, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Featured·Festival Calls

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

November 13, 2025

Reviews·Featured·Featured Reviews

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

November 6, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Festival Calls

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

October 27, 2025

Scene from Łukasz Twarkowski’s ROTHKO at the Holland Festival featuring a mirrored Chinese restaurant set with actors performing live while a stylized close-up video feed is projected on a massive LED screen above the stage.

Featured Reviews·Featured·Reviews

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.

September 25, 2025

MFA in Theatre and Performance in New York

Featured·Artist Opportunities·MA/MFA Programs

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.

September 12, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Festival Calls·Open Calls

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,

September 12, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Open Calls

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

September 5, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Featured·Festival Calls

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

August 22, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Featured·Festival Calls

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

July 8, 2025

Isabelle Huppert kneeling in a pleated peach gown beside a white radiator in Castellucci’s Bérénice at the 2025 Holland Festival.

Featured·Featured Reviews·Reviews

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.

June 21, 2025

Participants in Lucia Monge’s Plantón Móvil walking through Lima

Featured·Reading the Field

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.

June 6, 2025

Research Residency in Contemporary Performing Arts – Apply by June 22, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Open Calls·Residencies

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.

May 27, 2025

PQ invites proposals for an online symposium exploring its 60-year history in scenography, curating, and cultural exchange. Deadline: May 31.

Artist Opportunities·Open Calls

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.

May 27, 2025

Featured·Highlights

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

May 16, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Residencies

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.

May 13, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Fellowships

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.

May 12, 2025

Mophradat’s Self-Organizations – Funding for Artist-Run Initiatives (Deadline: June 10)

Artist Opportunities·Featured·Open Calls

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.

May 12, 2025

Featured·Reading the Field

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.

May 8, 2025

Featured·Podcast

Alex Tatarsky – SLC Performance Lab Podcast 06.02

Alex Tatarsky makes performances somewhere in between comedy, poetry, dance-theater, and rant—sometimes with songs. Tatarsky’s pieces play with the tension and overlap between written and improvised sequences, careening between known and unknown, set and scored. Drawing on the lineage of the clown,

May 7, 2025

Learn how to protect and replenish your creative energy using two frameworks: The Well of Creativity and the Power of Productive Boredom.

Artist Development·Featured

Creative Capacity: What Fills You, What Drains You, and Why Boredom Matters

Not all time is equal. As artists, we need to recognize what drains us, what restores us, and why boredom might be the missing piece in our creative capacity.

May 6, 2025

Featured·Highlights

Inside Holland Festival 2025: Trajal Harrell, Łukasz Twarkowski, and Gisèle Vienne, Lead a Daring Lineup

Holland Festival 2025 – 11 to 29 June Since its inception in 1947, the Holland Festival has stood as the Netherlands’ premier international performing arts festival, renowned for its commitment to innovation and artistic excellence. Over the decades, it has evolved into

May 4, 2025

Featured·Artist Development

Set up a Creative Practice Notebook in 6 Steps

There’s no single way to keep a creative journal—but if you’re trying to sustain an artistic life across the cycles of making, pausing, researching, and recovering, having a dedicated space for your thinking is just as important as one for your doing.

May 3, 2025

Contemporary Performance Network

Opportunities: ACT International Festival for Emerging Performing Artists (Bilabao, Spain) Deadline – 20/12/2025

Can Survival Be Choreographed? Gisèle Vienne’s Extra Life at the Holland Festival

Opportunities: Selection of performances for Opera Prima Festival XXII (Rovigo, Italy) Deadline – 7th December 2025

Oh! The (Body) Horror: Susie Wang’s Burnt Toast at Skirball Center

Opportunities: Teatri Riflessi 11 | International Short Performance Competition (Zafferana Etnea) Deadline – 1 November 2025, 22:00 (CET)

Łukasz Twarkowski’s ROTHKO at the Holland Festival: A Copy of a Copy of a Copy

Transform Your Practice: MFA in Theatre and Performance at Sarah Lawrence

Opportunities: Lugar Futuro 2026 (Viseu, Portugal) Deadline – 31 october 2026

Opportunities: (Online and Bled (Slovenia)) Deadline – 19.9.2025

Opportunities: Teatri Riflessi 11 – International Short Performance Competition (Zafferana Etnea, Sicily, Italy) Deadline – 1 November 2025 (22:00 CET)

Opportunities: Differenti Sensazioni 2025/26 (officine CAOS, Turin, Italy) Deadline – 31 August 2025

Image, Ritual, Collapse: Romeo Castellucci and Isabelle Huppert’s Bérénice at Holland Festival

Choreographies of Collapse: Performance in a Time of Climate Reckoning – Reading the Field – June 2025

Opportunities: Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency 2026 (Singapore) Deadline – 22 June 2025

Call for Proposals – Prague Quadrennial Symposium on 60 Years of Scenography (Apply by May 31)

Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025 Highlights: Ecstasy, Grief, Resistance

IBERICA Performance Art Residency & Festival – Apply by June 10, 2025

Trans Oral History Fellowship – Apply by June 15, 2025

Self-Organizations – Mophradat Grant for Artist-Run Initiatives (Apply by June 10, 2025)

No Soft Returns: Performance at the Edge of the Body – Reading the Field – May 2025

Alex Tatarsky – SLC Performance Lab Podcast 06.02

Creative Capacity: What Fills You, What Drains You, and Why Boredom Matters

Inside Holland Festival 2025: Trajal Harrell, Łukasz Twarkowski, and Gisèle Vienne, Lead a Daring Lineup

Set up a Creative Practice Notebook in 6 Steps

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