Eligibility Requirements for the 2025 Choreography Pilot Program (CPP25)

No students. All choreographers and their dancer artists in the CPP25 must be professional level artists.
Contemporary ballet and classical ballet works are not eligible.
A minimum of five years professional dance experience as a dancer and/or choreographer, and currently working in the dance field.
Or a minimum of two years choreographing in any form of contemporary dance styles professionally performed in theatre, video, streaming, etc.
Or a minimum of two years of recreating archival contemporary dance works (but the piece choreographed for the pilot program must be new and original work.)
Applicant must be a current resident in New York City, within the five boroughs, for a minimum of one year prior to applying and while completing the CPP25.
Must have the following documents:

Social Security Number Or Individual Tax ID Number
Green Card (if applicable)

And one of the following for their company:
1. IRS non-profit 501c3 form
2. Charity registration form
3. Umbrella registered sponsor for their company

Guidelines and Additional Definitions for the CPP25

The Mission of the Choreographic Program Pilot for Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc. is to oversee and encourage choreographers to create new contemporary dance work within the published annual dates and deadlines, remunerating the live participating dancer artists to manifest such work.

Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc. provides funding for research and exploration of the choreographer to create and rehearse a new work with the funding calendar year and mount a performance of that new work also in that calendar year. At this time the calendar year runs January 1 through November 15, 2025.

For further clarity, it is advised that a choreographer does not formally begin choreographic rehearsals with their dancer artists until AFTER the announced date of grant funding, which varies annually with the calendar. Otherwise, the choreographer assumes all of the expenses and financial liability of the project if it begins before Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc. has announced the grants.

Since a choreographer may work in a laboratory setting before or after the dates described as the formal operating time of Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc., then no more than 20% (twenty percent) of the work may be finalized before January 1st of that funding year. In addition, nor may the final performance take place after November 15th of that funding year.

Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc. has goals to provide coaching; providing creative process time in the studio with the dancer artists; offering coaches for mentoring; and funding of a new choreographic work while in the time frame of the grant.

Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc. grants require that the choreographer remunerate the dancer artists for their work in conjunction with the choreographer to mount/ create the new work within the process of the grant annual yearly dates mentioned above.