Dance/USA Reveals New Recipients of Fellowships to Artists Program

Dance/USA revealed the newest 25 recipients of the Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists program, honoring dance and movement-based artists with sustained practices in art for social change. Selected by a national peer-review panel, each Fellowship includes a $31,000 grant that may be used at the artist's discretion. 

One of the few regranting programs available to independent artists with an unrestricted financial award, 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 artists 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. 

The Round Three DFA Artist Fellows hail from cities and regions across the U.S. and its territories and work in the genres of Afro diasporic, African-Brazilian samba roots, Baladi, Ballet, Bailes de salón, Black American vernacular, body percussion, Bogle, Breaking, Bruk Up, Capoeira, Chinese, Contemporary, Contemporary Indigenous, Dabke, dance theater, devised, disability arts aesthetics, Filipino folk dances, Flexn, healing, Hip-Hop, Hoofing, House, improvisation, inclusive dance, Jazz, Kali, Matao/CHamoru, Mexican folklorico, Modern, participatory performance, Popping, ritual, Ring Shouts, social dance, somatic, storytelling, Tap, Waacking, West African, and more.

The Round Three DFA Artist Fellows: