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Apply for funding to give deaf and hard-of-hearing people the opportunity to experience concerts and performing arts performances,

The pool for performance interpretation of concerts, performing arts performances etc. has just been reopened. Actors who produce and/or organise professional concerts and performing arts performances can now apply for fees for professional sign language interpreters specialising in performance interpretation for one-off performances. This will give deaf and hard-of-hearing people a better opportunity to experience these cultural events.

What can you apply for?

You can apply for funding for fees including preparation, organisation and any travel and accommodation expenses for professional sign language interpreters specialising in performance interpreting for one-off performances.

A professional sign language interpreter is defined as an interpreter who has either graduated from one of the current Danish sign language interpreting programmes or has been certified by the relevant authorities in Denmark.

Who can apply?

You can apply if you are an actor who produces and/or organises professional concerts and performing arts performances, including theatres, venues, groups, ensembles, associations, institutions and more.

Background to the scheme

The scheme aims to give deaf and hard-of-hearing children, young people and adults throughout the country the opportunity to experience concerts and performances on equal terms with everyone else.

A maximum of DKK 100,000 can be applied for per applicant.

It is the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces that processes the applications received and decides. 

Application deadline: Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and the pool closes when the funds are exhausted.

Are you an artist – or are you part of a company, an independent group, an orchestra, or another producer working at the intersection of music and performing arts?

Then you have the opportunity to use Radar's production facilities for your next project.

Radar has been selected by the Danish Arts Foundation as part of the network for music-dramatic and cross-aesthetic projects for music and performing arts. This means that in 2026, we will make production facilities available for nine weeks, during which artists can immerse themselves in the development of new works, experiments, and collaborations.

IS KULTURVÆRFTET THE PERFECT SETTING FOR YOUR INTERDISCIPLINARY ART PROJECT?

Now you have the opportunity to use our production facilities for your next project.

Kulturværftet has been selected by the Danish Arts Foundation to serve as a networking hub for the development of cross-aesthetic art. Therefore, we are making our concert hall available for up to three weeks at a time in both 2024 and 2025 for projects that take place at the intersection of performance art and experimental music/sound.

Kulturværftet is a cultural center and venue, and for more than a decade, under the CLICK program track, it has provided a framework for festivals, concerts, workshops, and exhibitions at the crossroads of art, science, and technology. We have several different stages at our disposal, each suited to different types and sizes of projects. We can offer facilities ranging from gallery-like spaces to concert stages and black boxes.

Are you or your company thinking of applying for project funding from the Danish Arts Foundation's Project Support Committee for Performing Arts by their deadline of June 2, 2026, and do you need help and inspiration for writing a project application and drawing up a budget?

In this workshop, Jens Christian Jensen will review the Project Support Committee's strategy and focus areas and attempt to assess what he considers important in a project application and how it should be structured. He invites mutual reflection and sparring on topics and provides feedback on ideas for projects and performances.

Finally, he will offer advice on preparing an application budget that matches the application: How much should you budget for salaries, and how do you price the various costs? If there is interest on the day, Jens Christian will also offer tips on creating a professional one-page CV.

The workshop is open to anyone considering applying for funding or additional activities from the Danish Arts Foundation's Project Support Committee for Performing Arts' pool for Performing Arts for Children, Young People, and Adults by the deadline of June 2, 2026.

Practical details
Date: April 29, 2026, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Development Platform for Performing Arts, Baldersgade 6, Copenhagen N
The workshop is free of charge and will be held in Danish
Bring your laptop and power supply
Bring your own lunch
UP will provide coffee, tea, water, and a small snack.

Registration opens on February 4, 2026. Your registration is complete once you have received a confirmation from UP.

Are you or your company thinking of applying for project funding from the Danish Arts Foundation's Project Support Committee for Performing Arts by their deadline of June 2, 2026, and do you need help and inspiration for writing a project application and drawing up a budget?

In this workshop, Jens Christian Jensen will review the Project Support Committee's strategy and focus areas and attempt to assess what he considers important in a project application and how it should be structured. He invites mutual reflection and sparring on topics and provides feedback on ideas for projects and performances.

Finally, he will offer advice on preparing an application budget that matches the application: How much should you budget for salaries, and how do you price the various costs? If there is interest on the day, Jens Christian will also offer tips on creating a professional one-page CV.

The workshop is open to anyone considering applying for funding or additional activities from the Danish Arts Foundation's Project Support Committee for Performing Arts' pool for Performing Arts for Children, Young People, and Adults by the deadline of June 2, 2026.

Practical details
Date: April 29, 2026, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Development Platform for Performing Arts, Baldersgade 6, Copenhagen N
The workshop is free of charge and will be held in Danish
Bring your laptop and power supply
Bring your own lunch
UP will provide coffee, tea, water, and a small snack.

Registration opens on February 4, 2026. Your registration is complete once you have received a confirmation from UP.

DOKS – Dance Across Borders is seeking nine new projects for residencies in the Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak region for the period January 2027–January 2028.

The DOKS residency program is for professional artists and creative professionals seeking more than a standard residency: it is intended to be a springboard for new inspiration, collaboration, and development—across countries, cultures, and experiences. Therefore, it is a requirement that you apply for a residency in a Nordic country other than your home country. The program is open to all dance genres in stage formats, large and small formats, as well as projects in the early stages and those nearing a premiere. During your residency, you’ll have the opportunity to test your ideas, develop projects, and collaborate with other professional artists in new contexts. Below you’ll find practical information about who can apply, eligibility criteria, residency periods, and what’s offered during your stay.

DOKS - THE DANCE LABOR MARKET IN DENMARK

[This workshop is in Danish]

Bora Bora and Performing Arts Platform invite you to a workshop on the current role and conditions of dance, as well as its future possibilities. The workshop is aimed at dancers, choreographers, producers, and others who work with professional dance production and presentation. The purpose of the day is to gain a more qualified understanding of the challenges and development opportunities for contemporary dance through insight into existing knowledge and inspiration from outside.  

As a starting point for dialogue on possible initiatives to improve the role of dance, the results of the major study of the conditions for dance and musical theater presented by the Center for Cultural Evaluation and the Augustinus Foundation in December will be presented. In addition, Anne Ekenes will present the Norwegian initiative Sparebankstiftelsens Danseløfte, which develops and improves conditions for contemporary dance in Norway in a number of areas.

Who can apply?

Artists and cultural professionals, who are:

• legally residing in one of the Creative Europe countries, including the overseas countries and territories and outermost regions
• 18 years of age or older
• active in one of the following sectors: architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts; No specific level of experience is required

The call for individual mobility allows applications from individuals and groups of up to 5 people.

Call for Performing Arts Projects //
Apply to curate the Open Stage program throughout 2027.

About Open Stage
Open Stage at Godsbanen in Aarhus is a residency program for professional, self-producing performing artists focused on artistic development. The residency program supports work-in-progress projects in the independent performing arts field and is curated based on an annual open call, which artists across all performing arts genres can apply for.

Open Stage offers time for experimentation and immersion in Godsbanen’s well-equipped black box, technical assistance and guidance from the venue’s technical team, as well as the option of overnight stays in one or more of Godsbanen’s guest rooms. Åbne Scene prioritises projects that focus on artistic research, knowledge sharing, and interaction with local actors and communities, and that specifically require a black box space.

WANT TO HELP SHAPE THE CULTURAL DEBATE AT KULTURENS PLADS?

Kulturens Plads is the venue for the cultural policy debate at Folkemødet, and you can help shape the conversation!

The Danish Library Association and the Youth Bureau, together with Folkehuset Absalon and their Bornholm sister organization Hodda—Folkehuset in Rønne—are organizing communal meals and other activities at Kulturens Plads for Kulturens Plads 2026.

There will be debates, entertainment, and games, and Folkehuset Absalon/Hodda will provide communal meals for 300 people every day.

Would you like to join the community?

Every year, Teater Momentum hires three new artistic directors, each tasked with creating one production at Momentum based on a set of guidelines, visions, and creative challenges. Our vision is to create contemporary theater. Right in the heart of Denmark. To be a theater with its finger on the pulse. A theater that never leans back, but always leans forward. A theater that offers audiences high-quality performing arts that focus on Denmark, the world, and Odense.

Would you like to join us?

Aveny-T is seeking a resident artist (or a team of resident artists) for the 2027/28 season. We encourage all
professional performing artists to apply, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, disability, religion, or
sexual orientation.

Info Webinar: Should We Conduct an Audience Survey?

Join our info session, where we’ll tell you everything about how you can participate in the survey and gain a better understanding of your audience.

In this webinar, our analysts Sigrid Kjær-Hansen and Victor Olsen will explain what the new changes mean for you.

They will also cover:

What the Audience Survey is and how it works, particularly with regard to the new flexible timeframe and the new dashboard, which replaces the annual report.

How the survey provides strategic insights into your existing and potential audience.

How you can customize the questionnaire to your needs using our question catalog.

How you can store and access your data in your very own dashboard.

The action aims at having a transformative impact on the cultural landscape by fostering cross-border partnerships that invigorate the exchange of ideas and techniques, significantly enriching the sector. It should magnify the global presence of European art, ensuring its appreciation and access worldwide, thus broadening its impact. By facilitating collaboration among diverse organizations, the action should spark innovation, enabling the development and widespread dissemination of cutting-edge practices that enhance the competitiveness of the European cultural sector. This transnational cooperation should open new avenues for professionals, boosting their skills and fostering career growth and ensuring that cultural and creative sectors remain vibrant and resilient.

The world in 2026 feels heavy. A post-pandemic, ongoing global conflicts, and a sector under sustained pressure have reshaped what international collaboration means, and what it costs. Yet amid this, artists and organisations are finding new pathways: touring with greater intention, depth, and purpose.

This free public webinar brings together four years of learning from the International Touring and Environmental Responsibility (ITER) programme and asks: what did we learn, what did we change, and how do we build international touring that is sustainable and just by design rather than by accident?

Facilitated by Hannah Graham (Julie’s Bicycle) and Frederik Larsen (in futurum), we will hear from a panel of practitioners navigating these challenges in real-time, from the alumnus of the ITER 4 programme:

• Jonas Kohl (Foreningen Ballhaus) will discuss the Green Folkways Exchange, a transnational project exploring ecological wisdom in local traditions across Europe and Ukraine, where materials travel across borders rather than artists.
• Ajay Chhabra (Nutkhut), will share his journey to Fiji and how Nutkhut is bringing internal learning back into performances to help audiences engage with climate issues as tangible realities.
• Gulli Sekse (ReArtica) will introduce learnings from a Regenerative Business Model for the Arts (co-led with Wildtopia), which is a practical framework built on renewal and reciprocity, empowering artists to break free from extractive production cycles.
   

The session will also include:
Reflections on four years of ITER: Key themes, breakthroughs, and how touring practice has genuinely evolved.
Insights into research around international collaboration in 2026: geopolitical pressures, climate justice, and what practitioners are actually navigating.

ITER is funded by Arts Council England, Arts Council Norway, Danish Arts Foundation and delivered by Julie’s Bicycle in collaboration with in futurum.

Application round from May 10 to June 12, 2026:  
- Open call for CPH STAGE SELECTED. This application round is only for large-scale performances (minimum of 5 performers on stage & budget over DKK 350,000) and applies to both 2027 (festival period June 3-12) and 2028 (festival period June 1-10). Remember to invite our program committee to your performance if you plan to apply.

CPH STAGE SELECTED consists of approximately five selected Danish performances per year, which are intended to strengthen the festival's audience program with a selection of inspiring performances that the audience can relate to.

The performances selected must have premiered no later than December 1 before the festival. The performance must also be able to be presented at least three times during the festival, June 3-12, 2027, and June 1-10, 2028. Only professional performances for adult audiences are curated, which means that the performance must be suitable for audiences aged 16 and up. The festival only curates finished productions that the jury has been able to see either in person or via a documentary video. The festival only curates performances that do not have a run immediately prior to the festival in Copenhagen. Please send premiere invitations to INFO@CPHSTAGE.COM and write that the invitation is intended for the program committee.  

There are two application rounds per year: one in early summer and one in autumn. The committee decides how many grants will be awarded in each application round. Performances that are not selected in the first round may be submitted for consideration in the next round.

Application period from May 10 to June 12, 2026 
Application period from October 21 to November 25, 2026

CPH STAGE's National Mobility Fund helps ensure that performances produced outside the Capital Region or on Bornholm are presented as part of the festival's open program.

This initiative strengthens the festival's program for Danish audiences with performances from across the country. The festival and the initiative also contribute to giving good performances the opportunity to be restaged and possibly toured for the benefit of even more audiences in other parts of the country.

A limited number of professional performances may be selected to receive a grant from CPH STAGE's National Mobility Fund.  The performance must be produced in Denmark, and the theater/group must be based outside the Capital Region or on Bornholm. The performance must be presented as part of the festival in either 2026 or 2027 and must have premiered before the festival in question. 
 

Theater FÅR302 invites professional performing artists to apply to produce and perform at the theater during the period December 2026–June 2027. The application deadline is May 11, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.

The performances may be world premieres, revivals, or part of a tour. At the time of application, they may be at any stage of development, from concept to finished performance.
 

We do not limit ourselves to specific genres or formats, but welcome cross-aesthetic collaborations and links to other fields of knowledge and experience. These may include performance, theater, text, music, dance/choreography, video, installation, visual arts, animation, lectures, documentaries, etc.

OPEN CALL
Who can apply?

Nordic Ambitions is targeted at leaders with direct or overall responsibility for artistic programming, currently employed at one of the Nordisk Teaterlederråd (NTLR) network’s member organisations or connected to The National Theatre in Greenland or Faroe Island. You can be either new in your role as leader or more experienced. Most importantly, you have strong motivation to develop your leadership skills, broaden your horizons and expand your Nordic peer network. If you are not certain about your eligibility, please contact your regional contact for consultation.

Moving Identities ends its three-year cycle with a grand symposium – more info T.B.A.

Vil du og dit teater være med til at skabe et fagligt seminar rundt om jeres aktuelle forestilling –
for alle jeres kolleger i efterårssæsonen 2026?

ASSITEJ Danmark har fået midler fra Statens Kunstfund til at afholde 2 faglige seminarer under
titlen: Nye Scener/Nye Samtaler.
Det første seminar blev afholdt som et samarbejde mellem ZeBU, Amager Børnekulturfestival og ASSITEJ Danmark og tog udgangspunkt i forestillingen “VAND-SKABNINGER” af ZEBU, som i samarbejde med Dansk Handicapforbund tog afsæt i et medlemsteaters kunstneriske og tematiske arbejde med klima, kunstnere med handicap og det sanselige menneskes forhold til natur og transformation. Konceptet var her:
– Pre-talk med instruktør og dramatiker
– Visning af forestillingen Vand-skabninger
– Modereret paneldebat med skuespillere og instruktør
– Tværfaglige perspektiver fra lignende arbejde på musikfeltet

CPH STAGE is Denmark's largest theatre festival for professional theatre and takes place every year at the end of May/beginning of June in Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

Over 10 days, you can experience both the highlights and the breadth of Danish theatre right now, as well as see international touring hits.

CPH STAGE is an opportunity to see both new performances and those you didn't get to see this season. At the festival, you can let yourself be surprised and try new paths in the Danish theatre landscape. In addition to the performances, CPH STAGE offers events, readings, debates, seminars, parties, and much more.

For første gang går Filmværksted København og Folketeatret sammen om et open call, der inviterer unge talenter til at skabe nye fortællinger i krydsfeltet mellem film og scenekunst.

Open call’et hedder Scener fra en Fremtid og henvender sig til unge filmskabere og scenekunstnere, der arbejder kreativt med film, teater eller noget midt imellem. Call’et giver mulighed for at udvikle personlige og fremadskuende projekter med afsæt i egne oplevelser, følelser og liv.

Projekterne kan udkomme som film, som sceniske formater eller som en kombination. Folketeatret og Filmværksted København er nysgerrige på de unges drømme, vilkår og tanker om fremtiden, og call’et giver plads til værker med et tværkunstnerisk og eksperimenterende udtryk.

De færdige projekter kan blive vist på Folketeatret, i biografen eller på andre visuelle platforme.

Open call’et er for unge, der er på vej ind i film- eller scenekunstbranchen.

Smaller theatres, performing arts groups, independent performing artists and actors can apply for grants for performing arts purposes, including international activities.

In addition, applications can be made for individual international activities and festivals in Denmark.

Inclusion of works in the new Touring Network Denmark for adult touring theaters for the 2026/27 and 2027/28 seasons.

Smaller theaters, performing arts groups, and independent performing artists and actors can apply to have new performing arts productions included in KSelekt at Lille Scene in the Royal Danish Theatre's Playhouse during the 2026/2027 season. KSelekt is a collaboration between the Danish Arts Foundation, which selects performances, and the Royal Danish Theatre, which provides stage capacity. The Development Platform for Performing Arts has been selected by the Danish Arts Foundation as coordinator.

Save the date

The Performing Arts Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at the Royal Danish Theatre.

Program to follow.

Once again this year, we will come together to celebrate Danish performing arts at the 2026 Reumert Awards. The event will take place on June 7, 2026, at the Folketeatret in Copenhagen.

Ticket sales begin on Tuesday, April 28, when we will also reveal who will host this year’s awards ceremony.

This year’s nominees will be announced on May 

2-day workshop for Danish and international guests

In an unstable world, how do we sustain risk and openness in our artistic practice?
This two-day workshop is a hands-on exploration for artists working in performing arts for young audiences. It works through action and interaction rather than language or predefined ideas. Simple objects become tools for generating material, disrupting patterns and moving beyond established ways of making.
At its core is a shared investigation:
What do we avoid, and why? Which themes feel difficult or risky to approach — and what happens when we choose to move towards them?
The workshop brings together participants across cultural and linguistic differences in a shared process that prioritises doing over explaining, and experience over theory.
Open to international guests and Danish professionals who are willing to engage actively in the work.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.

yes – dance biennale is a new, large-scale dance festival in Copenhagen, which in late summer 2026 will bring audiences together to experience some of the most powerful and striking contemporary dance in Denmark and the rest of the world.

For a month, dance can be experienced across the city: on stages, in studios, and in public spaces. Large performances and intimate formats. Talks, workshops, and events that welcome everyone.

yes – dance biennale takes place every two years. In 2026, it is created by Dansehallerne, København Danser, Sydhavn Teater, and Dansk Danseteater. From 2028, we invite everyone who works with dance at the highest level to contribute to the program.

The ambition is clear: to make Copenhagen a destination for world-class dance and choreography and to invite audiences up close to an art form that is booming nationally and internationally.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.

Network funding is part of the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture, which strengthens artistic and cultural cooperation in the Nordic region and the Baltic countries. The programme focuses on increasing the exchange of knowledge, contacts and interest in Nordic and Baltic art and culture. The Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme comprises three forms of funding: Mobility funding, Network funding and Funding for artist residencies.

What is eligible for funding?

Network funding facilitates meetings, the exchange of ideas and knowledge between professional artists and cultural practitioners in the Nordic and/or Baltic region, that is to say: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Åland. Funding is available both for short-term and long-term networks.

Who is eligible to apply?

Funding is available for professional artists and cultural practitioners (such as curators, producers, literary translators, cultural editors or researchers) in all forms of art and culture. Both individuals and organisations can apply.

Show UP is your regular after-work event at UP – meet fellow performing artists and other interesting people in Baldersgade's cozy courtyard or foyer.

The Culture and Art Programme funds Nordic co-operation in the field of arts and culture. Funding is available for projects with an artistic and/or cultural quality that promotes a diverse and sustainable Nordic Region.

Travel funding for individual professional practitioners of art and culture in the Nordic and Baltic region.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.

Grants for projects, touring activities, and project development at the intersection of music and performing arts.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.

Do you need advice as a self-producing performing artist, company, or producer? Then come by at UP's Open Advisory on the first Wednesday of every month.