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Choreographic Residencies, Opportunities & Funding: Current listings for the USA, Latin America, Europe & Asia: Princess Grace Foundation Awards Nominations, Young Choreographer’s Festival, WestFest Dance Festival, and PDC live Arts Festival Open Calls, NY; UNC School of the Arts Residency, NC; BalletX’s Choreographic Fellowship, PA; UW Residency, WY, USA; QL2 Dance, Australia; BLUE BOX Creative Residency, Austria; BUDA-NEXT Festival, BELGIUM; Kinissis International Festival, CHILE; RAM DAM and Danse Élargie International Open Call, FRANCE; Noverre Young Choreographers Program of Stuttgart Ballet, GERMANY; Moving Parts Mentorship, INDIA; Drupa Centre Residency and NU.DA. – Nuova Danza, ITALY; ACT FEST Open Call, SPAIN; Tanzplattform Bern, SWITZERLAND, etc.

New Works & Events: New Justin Peck, Lucinda Childs, Drew Jacoby, Tiler Peck, and Anne Plamondon in New York; Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in Geneva; Sang Jijia in Hong Kong; Joshua Junker, Arielle Smith and Mthuthuzeli November in Amsterdam; Yuri Vamos in Lodz; Virpi Pahkinen in Stockholm; Andonis Foniadakis, and Lucas Valente in Zúrich, etc.

Competitions: International Competition for Choreographers, Hanover (Germany), Reims Millésime International Dance Competition (France)

Trending: Choreography + Robotics = Choreobotics?

New Books: Contemporary Dance Choreography and Spectatorship -- Embodied Emotion, by Lucía Piquero Álvarez, Palgrave Macmillan © 2023

New Movies: Tiler Peck: Suspending Time, Documentary, 2025

CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCIES, CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES & FUNDING:

NATIONAL:

GEORGIA: Contemporary dance company KIT MODUS is offering an in-person choreographic residency. Applicants must submit proposals for new works to be created for the company during the residency. Selected artists will enjoy a stipend, travel reimbursement, a cast of 5-10 professional dancers, and ample rehearsal time, plus access to studio space and accommodations. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.kitmodus.com/residency-application

LOUISIANA: DANCE FILM @ IDFNOLA – a part of the International Dance Festival, New Orleans – is now seeking innovative global voices merging movement and cinematography. Apply by February 28, 2026. Visit: https://www.idfnola.com

MASSACHUSETTS: The  NATIONAL DNACE PROJECT (NDP) Travel Fund provides monetary assistance to US-based presenters, curatorial staff, and residency directors to connect in person to explore the feasibility of presenting NDP-funded works. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.nefa.org/grants_programs/grants/national-dance-project-travel-fund

NEW JERSEY: Montclair State University’s low-residency MFA in Dance program is designed for dance professionals who wish to further their careers and actively help shape the world of dance. Priority application deadline is December 10, 2025.  Visit: https://www.montclair.edu/theatre-and-dance/academic-programs/graduate/mfa-in-dance/

NEW JERSEY: SMUSH GALLERY, which is equitably advances vibrant, accessible, high-quality, and thought-provoking art and culture experiences, is now accepting applications for project proposals. The program offers space to artists of all disciplines for studio work, rehearsal, performance, and exhibition in a beautiful storefront art space. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.smushgallery.com/opportunities

NEW YORK: The Princess Grace Foundation, USA supports and elevates extraordinary early-career artists in theater, dance, and film through game-changing grants, nurturing and supporting Princess Grace Award winners throughout their careers. Apply December 15, 2025 - February 2, 2026. Visit: https://pgfusa.org/apply/

NEW YORK: WestFest Dance Festival presents works of emerging and established movement artists through two distinct programs: a traditional theater setting at the Martha Graham Studio Theater and a site-specific program showing a variety of spaces within the Westbeth Artists’ residence buildings. Apply by December 31, 2025. Visit: https://www.westfestdance.com/applynow-2026

NEW YORK: The Bogliasco Foundation, an American nonprofit with a program in Italy, is now accepting applications from artists and scholars for residencies. Apply by March 6, 2026 for Spring 2027 program. Visit: https://bfny.org/en/about/program-overview

NEW YORK: Bethany Arts Community offers short-term residencies to artists from around the world who are at different stages of their careers to develop both new works and works in progress. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://bethanyarts.org/residencies/

NEW YORK: The second edition of Pöhler Dance Company (PDC) Live Arts Festival is calling for applications from choreographers from all genres and backgrounds. The event offers a unique platform to showcase works in a positive and supportive environment. Festival Date: March 15, 2026. Apply by December 15, 2025. Visit: https://pohlerdancecompany.com/

NEW YORK: The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation awards prizes biennially to a choreographer and composer for the best original dance with original music that has had its premiere performance within the previous 2 years of each award date. The next prize will be given in 2027 for works performed in 2025 and 2026. Apply by December 31, 2026.  Visit: https://cjgfamilyfoundation.com/gross-family-prize/

NEW YORK: Red Hook Brooklyn Film Festival is currently accepting entries of all kinds of short dance films and music videos. Priority will be given to works making their NYC or Brooklyn premiere. Apply by December 15, 2025. Visit: https://filmfreeway.com/RedHookbk

NEW YORK: The Young Choreographers' Festival, now in its 15th year, presents the work of some of the most up-and-coming 18- to 27-year-old choreographers in all dance genres at Symphony Space in NYC. Apply by January 31, 2026. Festival date: June 21, 2026. Visit: https://www.ycfdance.com/2025-ycf

NORTH CAROLINA: The choreographic development residency at the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts, is a 5-week program to foster the development of new work by emerging choreographers of exceptional promise. Apply by December 17, 2025.  Visit: https://www.uncsa.edu/summer/dance-summer-intensives/choreographic-institute/index.aspx

NORTH EASTERN REGION AND MAINE: The Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Artists Residency Program is an arts incubator dedicated to serving communities that have been impacted by colonialism and cultural erasure. The program brings together artists from diverse backgrounds to engage in their creative process, while building lasting relationships rooted in co-mentorship. The program provides workspace that fosters mentorship by pairing two artists together during a residency period to cultivate rich conversation, collaboration, and exchange. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://indigoartsalliance.me/mentorship-residency-program/

PENNSYLVANIA: BalletX choreographic Fellowship is one emerging artist each season with a distinguished choreographer who serves as a mentor as they both create world premieres on the BalletX dancers. Apply by February 6, 2026. Visit: https://www.balletx.org/artist-training-and-resources/choreographic-fellowship/?mc_cid=91f3583857&mc_eid=9e692dee1f

PENNSYLVANIA:  The Iron Factory in Philadelphia is offering free 1-week residencies for individual artists in the initial creation of new work. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.theironfactory.org/residency

US: The Villa Albertine 2027 Residency Program is seeking applications for a new cohort of artists and thinkers, each with an original research project they wish to pursue in the arts or ideas that require an immersive stay in the United States. Villa Albertine is an institution of the French Embassy in the United States and supported by the Albertine Foundation with the mission to strengthen connections between the United States and France. Apply by January 29, 2026. Visit: https://villa-albertine.org/va/professionals/general-call-for-applications-2027-residencies/

WYOMING: The University of Wyoming Department of Theatre & Dance is now accepting proposals for its prestigious 2026–2027 Excellence Artist Fund Residency. Residencies will support one to three selected artists, groups, or companies with funding awards ranging from $50,000 to $150,000. Apply by December 8, 2025. Visit: https://www.uwyo.edu/thd/index.html

INTERNATIONAL:

AUSTRALIA: The Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grant offers up to $15,000 to support Australian artists working across the spectrum of the arts, from traditional art forms to experimental mediums. Apply by January 20, 2026. Visit: https://www.ianpotterculturaltrust.org.au/opportunities/emerging-artist-grants/how-to-apply/

AUSTRALIA: QL2 DANCE offers curated residencies to a wide range of artists, from emerging to established careers. Residencies create opportunities for artists to develop and present new works, providing access to process and workshops for local dancers, as well as theatre or studio space without charge, and also may include other support. We strongly encourage applicants to discuss their project with our artistic director before formally applying. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.ql2.org.au/emerging-choreographers-program

AUSTRIA:  Bluebox OPEN CALL: Apply for JOURNEY -- FROM IDEA TO STAGE, a creative residency in Vienna, Austria. Bluebox, a mentorship and training program for contemporary dance performers and emerging choreographers, invites dance creators to create, develop, and premiere a new dance work to a dance audience at the prestigious Odeon Theater in Vienna in the spring of 2027. Deadline for submission: December 31, 2025. For details, tuition, criteria, and requirements for application, visit:  https://www.blueboxhub.eu/journey/

BELGIUM: A residency at BUDA includes the use of the facilities and artistic support in order for the artist to finalize a new production and premiere their work at NEXT Festival in October/November, 2026. Apply by January 5, 2026. Visit: https://mophradat.org/en/program/art-time-residencies/performance/

CANADA: Circuit-Est Choreographic Centre in Montréal offers residencies for generative and/or disciplinary works. Participants may use the residency time to work on a creation intended to be broadcast. Apply January 6 - March 1, 2026. Visit: https://circuit-est.qc.ca/en/activities/program/

CHILE:  KINISSIS International Dance Festival in Latin American platform for contemporary dance that brings together artists from Latin America and Europe for an intensive week that will combine training, artistic exchange, and performance. Apply by December 20, 2025. Festival dates: January 10–18, 2026. Visit: https://festivalkinissis.com/boletos

EUROPE: Culture Moves Europe has launched a new Individual Mobility call to support artists and cultural professionals across Creative Europe countries. Grants offer travel allowance, daily allowance, and additional funding for accessibility support, green mobility, family care, and visas. The call will run until April 30, 2026. Visit: https://culture.ec.europa.eu/culture-moves-europe/call-for-individual-mobility-2025-2026

EUROPE: Artists and creatives who are residents of the EU or Creative Europe countries who focus on process-led and site-specific creation may apply for Tiny Spaces residencies. Project partners will provide mentorship and opportunities to connect with local communities and other TISP artists. Apply by December 31, 2025. Visit: https://tinyspaces.eu/open-call/

EUROPE & AFRICA: The Connect and Create Programme aims to foster collaboration, exchange, and the circulation of artistic works within Africa and between sub-Saharan Africa and the European Union. Each project must be jointly conceived and implemented by a tandem consisting of one partner based in sub-Saharan Africa and one partner based in a European Union country. Apply by December 14, 2025. Visit: https://www.ifprog.emundus.fr/en/campagne-info?view=programme&cid=301

FRANCE: RAMDAN is an arts center that supports creation, artistic synergy, and interdisciplinary research. A call for residencies is open to artists or teams of all practices devoted to creation, research, or experimentation. Apply from December 12, 2025 - February 1, 2026. The first 60 applications will be reviewed. Visit: https://ramdamcda.org/information/devenir-resident

FRANCE: Danse Élargie International Competition is open to artists of all disciplines. Proposals for a maximum of 10 minutes with at least 3 participants will be considered. Competition dates: June 6 & 7, 2026 at Théâtre de la Ville Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris. Apply by January 9, 2026. Visit: http://www.danse-elargie.com

GERMANY: The International Coproduction Fund supports coproductions worldwide that grow out of collaborative and dialogue-based work processes in the performing arts. The fund promotes innovative productions, international cultural exchange, and new approaches to intercultural collaboration and networking. Apply by April 1, 2026. Visit: https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/foe/int.html

GERMANY: BIENNALE 2026 is seeking submissions of shorts, documentaries, and features written, directed or produced by women. Apply by December 30, 2025. Visit: http://womencinemakers.com/

GERMANY: Stuttgart Ballet is currently accepting applications for the Noverre Young Choreographers Program 2026. Anyone interested in participating can send their resume with contact information and videos/photos. Apply by end of December 2025.  Visit: https://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/noverre/application/

GERMANY: Dance-techAIR at Lake Studios Berlin is accepting applications for its residency program, which offers international interdisciplinary movement and media artists the chance to live and make art in a peaceful artist-run, working, living, and performance space in Berlin. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.lakestudiosberlin.com

GERMANY: The NRW Kultur Sekretariat offers the “Digital Performance” funding program to support artists whose projects combine digital narratives and technology. The focus is on performative approaches that deal with themes of digitality or digitalisation and pursue a non-linear dramaturgy or incorporate responsive elements into the stage action. Rolling deadline.  Visit: https://www.nrw-kultur.de/en/programmes/digital-performance

GERMANY: Tanzplattform Rhein-Main Pop-Up Residence offers a series of one- to two-week residencies for local dance professionals and their teams in the rooms of the Hessisches Staatsballett or Mousonturm. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.tanzplattformrheinmain.de/de/professionell-tanzen/residenzen/pop-up-residenz/

GERMANY: Choreographers up to age 40 are invited to apply for a guest program for young theatre professionals from abroad conducted by Goethe-Institut, Munich, and the Federal Republic of Germany Centre of the International Theatre Institute. Grant recipients will be taken in by theatres in Germany to become familiar with production conditions and the conception and rehearsal process of at least one production. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.goethe.de/en/uun/auf/tut/sta.html

GREECE: The Mudhouse Residency Program is accepting applications for the 2026 residency season. The program is designed to provide cultural immersion during two-week residency sessions each summer for international contemporary artists working across a manifold of artistic disciplines. Apply by January 1, 2026. Visit: http://www.mudhouseresidency.com/about

INDIA: The Body and Performance Festival provides performers with intensive in-studio training, mentorship during independent projects, and public showcasing. Festival dates: December 5, 2025 - March 28, 2026. Visit: https://www.movingparts.art/training

INDIA: Farm Studio International Artist Residency hosts artists throughout the year, with accommodations available for 6 to 12 residents at one time. Residents stay and create at a quiet art centre in a beautiful environment where they can develop their artwork free from distractions. Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply. Rolling deadline.  Visit: https://farmingstudio.wordpress.com/art-residency/

ITALY: Project Selection for the DRUPPA CENTER Program is open to individual artists and emerging, independent professional collectives. Apply by January 18, 2026. Visit: https://www.drupacentre.com/en/post/drupa-residency-call-for-entries-2026-1

ITALY: Kulturfactory Performing Arts Residency is designed for international contemporary artists in various disciplines and runs year-long. Applications should be emailed and should include examples of work and CV information, as well as details about what applicants hope to achieve during their residency. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.kulturfactoryresidency.com/residency/

JAPAN: Dankatsu, a project in which contemporary dance artists and public halls across the country jointly plan and implement dance events, is currently recruiting registered artists for the 2027 and 2028 events. Apply by December 15, 2025. Visit: https://jcdn-web.org/news/news-3462/

JAPAN: The Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center SCARTS Cultural Arts Promotion Grant Programme supports part of the expenses of individuals and organisations engaged in a variety of cultural and artistic activities in Sapporo. Apply by January 10, 2026. Visit: https://www.sapporo-community-plaza.jp/scartsgrant.html

NETHERLANDS:  The Home of Performance Practices and ArtEZ University of the Arts are calling for applications from artists to join the Master’s Degree Program for Autumn 2026. The program welcomes artists interested in practice-as-research to advance their careers in performance art, choreography, contemporary theatre, experimental dance, or visual art. Apply by January 16, 2026. Visit: https://www.performancepractices.nl/post/open-call-for-audition-ma-performance-practices-1

MEXICO: The International Contemporary Dance Festival in Mexico City invites choreographers, companies, and independent or emerging groups to participate in the 2026 edition. Festival dates: August 6-16, 2026. Apply by December 30, 2025. Visit: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1317275693178454&set=a.711954207043942

PANAMA: PRISMA International Contemporary Dance Festival, Fundación PRISMA Danza, is now accepting submissions from independent choreographers and chamber dance companies. Festival dates: September 19-25, 2026. Apply by December 31, 2025. The first 400 proposals received will be considered. Visit: https://festivalprisma.com/convocatoria-abierta-2/

PORTUGAL: Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, a nonprofit space and organization, offers a 4-week or longer residency once per year that covers studio and accommodation fees. Emerging and professional artists, performers, musicians, curators, writers, and other cultural agents are eligible. Apply by email. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://zaratan.pt/en/residencies/

SLOVENIA: The aim of 17^th International Festival of Young Dance Creators OPUS 1 is to promote contemporary dance and discover fresh talent, while seeking to foster the creativity of young dance creators rather than to push for competitiveness. Apply by February 11, 2026, Festival date: April 4, 2026. Visit: https://www.jskd.si/ples/prireditve_ples/opus/opus_26/uvod_opus_26.htm

SPAIN: The ACT FESTIVAL 2026 has launched a call for international and emerging performing artists who have scenic works of 30 minutes maximum. The festival is committed to companies that take risks in their proposals by using new formats and scenic languages. Apply by December 20, 2025. Visit: https://actfestival.com/

SPAIN: LAV Artist Residency is a project that accommodates artistic creation in situ in the city of Granada by offering a platform and a space for creation and exhibition based on coexistence and community. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://espaciolavadero.com/

SPAIN: The call for entries is now open for DanzaTTack 2026 International Dance and Dance Film Festival. Festival dates: May 8-17, 2026. Apply by December 14, 2025.  Visit: http://www.danzattack.com

SWITZERLAND: Tanzplattform Bern is calling for applications from choreographers in all stylistic approaches. Entries must have a clear artistic vision encompassing professionalism, choreograph­ic quality, a high level of dance performance, and innovation. Selected applicants will receive a performance fee, travel cost payment, and accommodation. Apply by January 15, 2026. Event dates: June 18-19, 2026. Visit: https://buehnenbern.ch/buhnen-bern/ballett/terms-conditions/

SWITZERLAND: The Sudkulturfonds has developed a grant to support 100 artists from countries in the global South and East who are in the early stages of their careers. The project supports performances at Swiss venues. Apply by four weeks before the project date.  Visit: https://www.suedkulturfonds.ch/ongoing-grants

UK: The Thames Festival Trust is accepting submissions for the Totally Thames Festival 2026 Seed Funder Programme, offering up to £1,000 in seed funding, plus marketing, mentoring, and networking support to help realise your creative idea. Apply by December 17, 2025. Visit: https://thamesfestivaltrust.org/artistic-programme/seed-funders/apply-seed-funder-programme/

UK: The Inaugural film festival from Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage & Studio is now accepting submissions to be considered for an award and selection for a curated limited time release on the Digital Stage platform. The event will celebrate the best dance in digital formats from across the globe. Apply by February 22, 2026. Event dates: June 5 – 7, 2026. Visit: https://www.sadlerswells.com/digital-stage/dance-digital-festival/

UK: London-based artists may apply for the Adore Dance London Residency Program. The residency offers free studio space for up to 10 weeks. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.adoredance.london/free-dance-studio-space-london-artistic-residency

UK: Space Clarence Mews in London is offering a residency program that is ideal for artists/companies/collectives working within and across all performance disciplines to push the boundaries of their own process and practice within a mutually supportive context. Apply by December 8, 2025. Visit: https://spaceclarencemews.com/one-year-residency/

UK: Ballet Nights, a global series of extraordinary live dance experiences, is programming across London, regional UK venues, and international locations in 2025–2027. Choreographers with ready-to-stage creations are welcome to apply. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.balletnights.com/

NEW CHOREOGRAPHY, WORLD PREMIERES, EVENTS & NEWS:

NATIONAL:

NEW YORK: New York City Ballet’s annual New Combinations program includes the latest ballet from Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor Justin Peck. World premiere date: January 29, 2026. Visit: https://www.nycballet.com/season-and-tickets/winter-2026/new-combinations

NEW YORK: Sons of Echo is a bold new program from international ballet star Daniil Simkin, presenting new and reimagined works by female choreographers, including Lucinda Childs, Drew Jacoby, Tailer Peck and Anne Plamondon. Premiere date: January 14, 2026. Visit: https://www.joyce.org/performances/sons-of-echo-6t1b

NEW YORK: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at New York City Center will present four world premieres by Maija García, Matthew Neenan, Jamar Roberts, and Fredrick Earl Mosley. Performance date: December 18, 2025. Visit: https://ailey.org/repertory/embrace

SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Ballet presents Eugene Onegin, a new work by Resident Choreographer Yuri Possokhov. Premiere date: January 23, 2026. Visit: https://www.sfballet.org/productions/eugene-onegin/

INTERNATIONAL:

GERMANY: Gauthier Dance Company’s Fireworks Project includes new creations based on compositions that represent the artistic identity of Theaterhaus, with its illustrious jazz tradition. They were transformed into dance pieces by star choreographers Mauro Bigonzetti, Virginie Brunelle, Stijn Celis, Dominique Dumais, Andonis Foniadakis, Marco Goecke, Johan Inger, Barak Marshall, Benjamin Millepied and Sofia Nappi. The performance will open on December 31, 2025. Visit: https://www.theaterhaus.com/de/gauthier

GERMANY: Oldenburg Ballet Company presents Demo Mode -- three choreographic world premieres by Guillaume Hulot, Nicol Omezzolli, and Alice Topp that explore various aspects of the theme of democracy. World premiere date: January 9, 2026. Visit: https://staatstheater.de/programm/ballett/spielzeit-2526/demo-mode

HONG KONG: Premiering at the East Kowloon Cultural Centre, City Contemporary Dance Company’s landmark 2026 production INterstices, created by Artistic Director Sang Jijia,  explores the hidden spaces of our hyper-dense metropolis. Premiere date: January 3, 2026. Visit: https://www.ccdc.com.hk/en/ccdc_events/interstices/#1742383673426-8c0da46a-fce3

NETHERLANDS: Dutch National Ballet’s Junior Company presents three world premieres by Joshua Junker, Arielle Smith, and Mthuthuzeli November. World premiere: January 22, 2026. Visit: https://www.operaba]llet.nl/en/dutch-national-ballet/2025-2026/ballet-beats#tickets

NETHERLANDS: The annual performance entitled Switch is an evening entirely curated, produced, and choreographed by the dancers of NDT 1 and NDT 2. Performance date: January 17, 2026. Visit: https://www.ndt.nl/en/agenda/switch-26/

POLAND: The ballet company of The Grand Theatre in Łódź will premiere Youri Vamos version of The Nutcracker. The performance will open on December 6, 2025. Visit: https://www.operalodz.com/THE_NUTCRACKER_A_CHRISTMAS_TALE,29,733

SWEDEN: In the brand-new Virpi Lunaire, Vipri Pahkinen takes  the main stage in her dual role as dancer and choreographer together with longtime dance partner Pontus Sundset. Premiere date: December 10, 2025. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtIQv3Npq3A

SWEDEN: Jukka Korpi’s upcoming work, Flygande – Flying, promises to capture both the curiosity of children and the imagination of adults. Showing at ZebraDans through December 10, 2025. Visit: https://www.zebradans.se/pa-scenen-flygande/

SWITZERLAND: Ballett Zürich presents a four-part ballet evening, which brings together two legendary dance pieces and two world premieres by Andonis Findiadakis and Lucas Valente. Premiere date: January 17, 2026. Visit: https://www.opernhaus.ch/en/spielplan/calendar/timeframed/2025-2026/

UK: Resolution 2026 is the UK’s biggest annual festival of new choreography, offering emerging artists a platform to present their work on an established London stage. Festival dates: January 9 - February 25, 2026. Visit: https://www.onedanceuk.org/news/resolution-2026-the-uks-biggest-festival-of-new-choreography-returns-to-the-place

COMPETITION:

INTERNATIONAL:

GERMANY: Ballett Gesellschaft Hannover organizes annually the International Competition for Choreographers Hanover, the longest running choreography competition in the world. The competition is open to choreographers age 40 or younger and to any style of dance. Apply by March 15, 2026. Visit: www.choreography-hannover.de

FRANCE: The Reims Millésime International Dance Competition is an artistic event for amateur, pre-professional, and professional dancers, highlighting choreographic creativity and professional networking. Apply by December 31, 2025. Competition dates: February 7 & 8, 2026. Visit: https://www.instagram.com/concoursdansemillesime?igsh=MXY2M2g1M3p1ZWQzNA==

NETHERLANDS: Registration is open for the ninth edition of AmsterDans, a competition that brings together dancers from various backgrounds to present their work. The event has a special category for Emerging Choreographers, providing a platform for new voices, fresh ideas, and artistic innovation. Event dates: March 14 &15, 2026. Apply by February 22, 2026. Visit: https://www.amsterdans.org/

TRENDING:

Choreography + Robotics = Choreobotics?

Dance artists play a significant role in the development of robotic technologies. As moving machines like drones and self-driving cars become more integrated into our daily lives, the tech companies behind them are realizing they need experts who intimately understand motion through space and time, and how the nuances of that motion can affect the way we feel about their products. Translation: They need dance artists! Link to the entire article in USA’s Dance Magazine here. 

BOOKS ON CHOREOGRAPHY & CHOREOGRAPHERS:

Contemporary Dance Choreography and Spectatorship -- Embodied Emotion, by Lucía Piquero Álvarez, Palgrave Macmillan © 2023. This book: 1) Establishes an interdisciplinary dialogue between dance analysis and philosophy; 2) Offers a unique view which links the experiences of choreographers and audience members; 3) Argues for dance itself being a medium of emotional communication.

This book argues for dance itself—its materials, its structures—as a medium of emotional communication. Contemporary dance often seems to contend with issues of understanding, regularly being “read” in “languages” which alienate it. Even if emotion seems a significant part of people’s engagement with dance, its workings are often surrounded by an air of mysticism. Engaging with these issues, this study investigates the experience of emotion in Euro-American contemporary dance theatre.

The book questions its dependence on the artist’s personal emotions, and the assumption that it is mediated by representational meaning. Instead, this book proposes that the emotional import of dance emerges from an interplay between perceptual properties and symbolic elements in an embodied affective cognitive experience. This experience includes the background of the spectator as well as the context of work, choreographer, performer(s) and other creative agents. LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Dance-Choreography-Spectatorship-Embodied/dp/3031449614

CINEMA ON CHOREOGRAPHY & CHOREOGRAPHERS:

Tiler Peck: Suspending Time -- Documentary, 2025. The film offers a raw and deeply personal look at one of ballet’s most celebrated artists as she faces a career crossroads. Following a series of life-altering events — a major injury, a pandemic, a personal loss — New York City Ballet prima ballerina Tiler Peck is forced to reckon with the unknown and reimagine her relationship to dance, to her body, and to herself.

Directed by Alex Ramsey, the film follows Tiler over the course of six years of her life, through rehearsal studios, stages, and quiet moments of reflection, as she fights to return stronger, not just as a prima ballerina, but also as a choreographer and creative force. Featuring original work by Peck alongside choreography from Alonzo King, William Forsythe, George Balanchine, and Christopher Wheeldon, the film blends vulnerability and resilience with artistic brilliance. Premiered on October 24, 2025 at Lucasfilm Premier Theater in San Francisco. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsKmx1v3Lp8

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