ABOUT ARCOS
ARCOS is a multi/trans/inter/anti-disciplinary group using dance and technology to imagine new possible futures. We primarily create via a method of hacking, or repurposing everyday technologies into performance, to inspire others to become more regular hackers of the systems in which we all operate. We hold an expansive understanding of technology that includes language, movement systems (like dance), and identity construction, as well as our material devices and the less visible network infrastructures that they access. We understand our bodies as highly intelligent, already hybrid, and existing in multiple spaces in nonlinear time. We consider our process and performance projects as rehearsals for survival in an increasingly complex world; growing our capacity to hold that complexity in ourselves and with each other.
hybrid artworks presented in part by:
UNESCO Creative Cities
American Dance Festival
CURRENTS New Media Festival
McCallum Choreography Festival
SITE Santa Fe
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Online Performance Art Festival
Barnstorm Dance Fest
Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival
CounterCurrent Festival
Dance Gallery Festival
Ammerman Symposium on Arts and Technology
Engagement: Symposium of Philosophy and Dance
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
UNESCO Creative Cities American Dance Festival
CURRENTS New Media Festival
McCallum Choreography Festival
SITE Santa Fe
{254} DanceFest
Online Performance Art Festival
Barnstorm Dance Fest
Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival
CounterCurrent Festival
Dance Gallery Festival
Ammerman Symposium on Arts and Technology
Engagement: Symposium of Philosophy and Dance
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
ARCOS offers arts training, development, and service programming rooted in the slow, insistent work of imagining a more equitable future. Our programs provide multiple paths towards changework, ranging from the deeply personal to the widely relational. These programs take the shape of weekly class series, workshops, academic residencies microgrants, fiscal sponsorship, and production mentorship for independent performing artists. We understand our work to be a relational, rather than transactional, practice of sharing resources, knowledge, and care.
academic residencies
Texas State University
Colorado College
Texas A&M University
Connecticut College
University of Colorado Boulder
University of North Texas
Goddard College
University of Michigan
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Macalester College
artist residencies
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
Playa Summerlake
Signal Culture
Ucross Foundation
publications
Theatre Design & Technology
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy
grants and awards
The National Endowment for the Arts
New Mexico Arts
Mid-America Arts Alliance
Donors Trust
Hatchfund
Rea Charitable Trust
Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
City of Austin Cultural Arts Division
DONATE
We accept tax-deductible donations to our nonprofit organization online via PayPal or Venmo (links below).
BOOK
ARCOS is part of the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) Texas Touring Roster. Support is available to assist 30%–50% of our booking fees through the Arts Respond Performance Support grant program. Contact TCA for more information, and please also contact us if you are interested in bringing us to your community.
Presenters in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma may also currently be able to receive a subsidy of up to 50% of ARCOS’ fee through Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Regional Touring Program. Such presenters located in rural communities may receive an additional 10% of the artist’s fee.
Presenters in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma may also currently be able to receive a subsidy of up to 50% of ARCOS’ fee through Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Regional Touring Program. Such presenters located in rural communities may receive an additional 10% of the artist’s fee.