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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.

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 - 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.