Funded Rome Residency €42,000 – Villa Medici Fellowship 2027
Villa Medici Fellowship 2027 offers a €42,000 grant and 12-month residency in Rome. French-speaking artists apply by October 16, 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.
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
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: 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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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