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Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA) supports dance and movement-based artists from across the U.S. and its territories who work at the intersection of social and embodied practices. DFA recognizes the wide variety of ways in which people engage in social transformation through dance, which often do not fit into established models of arts funding. This includes community-building and culture-bearing practices, healing and storytelling practices, activism and representational justice practices, and more.
Now in its third iteration, DFA remains one of only a few programs which support independent U.S. dance artists with an unrestricted financial award. Fellowship awards of $31,000 will be given to at least 25 individual artists, to be used at their own discretion.
Meet our Round Three Artist Fellows here!
As part of their Fellowship experience, the Artist Fellows will have the option to participate in an emergent programming process that honors the Fellows’ choices around connection, rest, and desire. The facilitated process will be self-directed by artists and administratively supported by Dance/USA.
The overarching goals of DFA are to:
- Center artists who engage in art for social change and offer Fellowship support
- Build a peer cohort and resource network among Fellows
- Facilitate responsive and emergent initiatives which uplift the artists
DFA is currently not accepting applications.
DFA is made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Foundation.