In January 2024, The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) and Civis Foundation (a Galvan Initiatives affiliate) partnered to launch The Democracy Cycle, a new commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy.

Eligibility:

• Be generative artists who are currently creating new work in theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance
  Have created 2 or more completed and presented works
  Not be currently enrolled as a full-time student in a degree-granting program. PhD candidates need to have completed their course/work by the application deadline to be eligible:
• Be eighteen years of age or older
• Propose a new project that is not a remount, has not yet been premiered, and is not planned to premiere before May 1, 2026
• Propose a new performance project meant to be developed and performed live, and planned to be completed in 2026, 2027, or 2028. Works may be interdisciplinary and can include collaborators in other artistic forms. At the time of application, a work may be in an early, mid, or later stage of development so long as it is not planned to premiere before May 1, 2026
• Artists may either be U.S. citizens, or citizens of other countries, this is a national and international open call. Note: all artists commissioned are responsible for any tax implications involved in accepting a monetary award from a U.S.-based arts organization

DEADLINE: April 1st, 2025 at 5:00pm ET