Open Calls for Dancers and Performers
If you are a dancer, choreographer or a performance artist, the world is your stage. Don’t look past these upcoming global opportunities to take your work to the next level. Dance residencies, festivals, commissions and more — this collection has got your next move covered.
Target Margin Theater | TMT Institute 2026/2027
Calling all theatre makers! The TMT Institute is a cohort of artists who seek to radically disrupt and re-examine their existing practice without any goal or expected result. Fellows create their own course as they reinvent, question, and challenge their artistic practice. The purpose of The TMT Institute is pure experimentation, with no product-oriented end goal. The Institute gathers for three short intensive sessions to help each Fellow advance this process.
Location: Brooklyn, US
Reward: Space, material resources, and $2,000 stipend
Tanztheater Erfurt | contact.energy´26
For their 2026 Internationale Tanztheater Festival, Tanztheater Erfurt has opened an international contemporary dance competition: contact.energy. Applications are open to choreographers and dancers with an individual and meaningful performance.
Location: Erfurt, DE
Reward: Performance during the festival, €100 allowance, and €250-1000 prizes
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Museum of Chinese in America | Performing Artist-In-Residence Program
The Museum of Chinese in America’s Performing-Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) Program will invite a cohort of three performing artists to individually develop, create and present one theme-based new project, by utilizing the resources and collections at MOCA. Throughout the residency, artists will be invited to participate in artist-led workshops and give a work-in-progress presentation to the public.
Location: New York, US
Reward: $3,000 honorarium, rehearsal spaces, and more
Idle Hands | Incubation Award
Idle Hands invites emerging and mid-career artists based in New York City (all five boroughs eligible) to apply for the Idle Hands Incubation Award. This award is opening to all time-based media artists, including performance, dance, film, sound, and more. The award cycle theme is Rooting, an ongoing and active process of connection: to people, places, rituals, histories, communities, and systems of care.
Location: New York, US
Reward: $10,000 unrestricted stipend, professional mentorship, and a culminating exhibition in Brooklyn
NOMANTINELS | PERFORMA-Q Residency Programme
PERFORMA-Q is a transnational European platform dedicated to surfacing erased queer stories from Europe’s periphery. For Cycle 1 of its Residency Programme, it is selecting six artists or collectives from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, and performative writing for residencies between October 2026 and April 2027 (2–4 weeks). The programme operates across six partner countries and functions as a dramaturgical incubator: a transnational space where fragile, untold narratives receive resources, mentorship, and the infrastructure to travel across borders.
Location: Slovakia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Austria, Sweden, and Ukraine
Reward: €1,500–4,000 stipend, travel, accommodation, rehearsal space, mentorship, and more
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