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ARTIST SUPPORT

ARCOS offers support and mentorship to independent dance artists in Austin throughout the process of supporting their practices and projects, providing logistical and creative guidance. Current artist support programs include the DADA microgrant and ARCOS Presents production mentorship.

Dance Artist Development Award



ARCOS Foundation for the Arts provides the Dance Artist Development Award (DADA) to honor independent professional dance artists in Austin seeking to deepen, expand, or refine their practices. While many grants provide funding for artistic projects, the impact of which can be quantified (for example, by measuring artists paid or audience members directly affected), this award is intended to provide dance artists the opportunity to take a risk to explore a practice- rather than product-based pursuit that may have profound, long-term effects on their creative development and work going forward. Prior recipients have used the development funds to explore new movement modalities within and outside of our community, work with mentors to strengthen their self-producing capacity, and conduct leadership training in art as social engagement and activism.





 Awardee 

Sandie Donzica

 Finalists 

Rosie DeAngelo Alisa Guardiola

 Panelists 

Cristina Goletti Karissa Royster Rulan Tangen


2018


 Awardee 

Erica Saucedo

 Finalist 

Rachel Nayer

 Panelists 

Bruno Augusto Rachel K. H. Sherertz Rosely Conz

2017

 Awardee 

Hunter Sturgis

 Finalist 

Sandie Donzica

 Panelists 

Cohdi Harrell Joy Cosculluela Jesús Cortés

2016


 Awardee 

Michael J. Love

 Finalist 

Stephanie Patrick

 Panelists 

Anjali Austin luciana achugar Catherine Cabeen



2015



 Awardee 

Lisa Hueske

 Panelists 

Ekalos Reed Gabriel Williams Krista Bower



A square image divided in two along the diagonal. Text reads: ARCOS Presents, Sept 26–28 @ Crashbox. In the upper left section, a medieval illuminated manuscript image of a dark slit surrounded by reddish fleshy edges on a field of deep blue with gold leaf vines. Gothic script reads: Kelly Goetz - Menstruator. In the lower right half, people bathed in golden light and dressed for the club dance amidst multicolored shapes and the faint image of a vinyl record. Elegantly festive bright yellow text reads: Rhythm & Grooves - Ciceley Fullylove. In one corner, the City of Austin and Economic Development Department logos appear, and in the other, text that reads: This project has been financed in part by the City of Austin's Elevate Grant Program.

MENSTRUATOR / RHYTHM & GROOVES

Thu Sept 26 – Sat Sept 28 at 7:30pm
CRASHBOX, 5305 Bolm Rd Unit 12


ARCOS Presents a double bill of new dance works: Kelly Goetz’s Menstruator combines clowny-burlesque, dance, and mindfulness to explore the stigmatized menstrual cycle; Ciceley Fullylove’s Rhythm & Grooves merges social and club dance with contact improvisation to pursue unison from within our own authentic grooves.

ASL interpretation will be available at all performances. Accessible front-row seating available for those with limited mobility, including wheelchair users. Please let us know of these or other specific access needs at the prompt during ticket purchase.

If the cost will stop you from being able to come to see the show, apply here for one of our limited sponsored tickets.

Content note: sharp objects, fake blood, flashing lights




This project has been financed in part by the City of Austin’s Elevate Grant Program.


ARCOS is invested in the power of relational, rather than transactional, creative practices of sharing resources, knowledge, and care. ARCOS Presents is a production mentorship and laboratory designed to prepare artists to be nimble, courageous, and willing to take creative risks by tackling difficult ideas in new ways. We aim to support Austin-based “emerging-into-self-producing” dance artists at any stage of their choreographic practices.

Awardees receive financial support, including an artist stipend, production budget, studio rehearsal space, technical inventory access, and performance venue rental. Mentorship also serves awardees with creative thought partnering, production and technical support, and audience and press outreach.

ARCOS is honored to cultivate the evolution of this year’s awarded artists, Ciceley Fullylove and Kelly Goetz, to make their exciting dance performance work sustainably and on their own terms.


Title: Ciceley Fullylove. A headshot portrait of a smiling, light brown-skinned woman in a black tank-top, with an earring, nose ring, and curly black hair long on top and buzzed short on the sides. The photo is surrounded by a blue, red, and yellow speckled background. A joyfully dancing light brown-skinned woman with short curly black hair in a bright red shirt, yellow pants, blue bandana. A quotation reads: “I am so excited for the opportunities this mentorship with ARCOS is providing for me. This work is about community, rhythm, and finding one’s authentic groove. A movement vocabulary will be developed from various social dances (cumbia, housing, two stepping etc) and sometimes combine the foundational tools found in Contact Improvisation. The goal is to rediscover those relationships and moments found on a dance floor.”

CICELEY FULLYLOVE
Ciceley Fullylove is a dancer, choreographer, and singer born and raised in Austin, TX. She gained her BA in Dance Studies from Texas Woman’s University and has since performed in dance-works by local choreographers such as Jennifer Sherburn, Spaces of Fontana, Erica Saucedo, and Venese Alcantar. She has also choreographed music videos for the Austin based, contemporary-pop artist Middlespoon. She is a member of the band CAPYAC and went on a national tour last year opening for the Magic City Hippies. She was most recently seen in the role of Demeter in CATS at Georgetown Palace Theatre.

Title: Kelly Goetz. A headshot portrait of a smiling light-skinned person with medium-length brown hair wearing a white shirt, necklace, and nose ring. The photograph is surrounded by a green- and reddish brown-speckled background. Photo of a light-skinned person in historical feminine lingerie and a patterned hood sits writing in a room bathed in dim teal-colored light. A quotation reads: “I am honored to receive the ARCOS mentorship, as I believe it will provide the crucial support needed to further develop my artistic vision. This program will allow me to expand my ongoing Menstruator series, culminating in a solo performance that blends clowny-burlesque, narrative dance, text, and audience interaction through mindful exercises. With ARCOS's guidance, I aim to build a solid foundation for this performance, ultimately enabling me to apply for opportunities to showcase it on a broader scale.”

KELLY GOETZ
Kelly Goetz is an explorative performance artist and mindfulness guide deeply rooted in the healing nature of the artistic process and actualization. Their creative practice blends elements of storytelling, ritual, and collective centering with themes of mental health, cyclical rhythms, and the human condition. Kelly is dedicated to blurring the lines between art and everyday life, striving to create performances that transcend traditional boundaries and generate greater worldly impact. They attribute their artistic development to their education at Cornish College of the Arts and influential collaborations with dance and theater companies in Seattle and Austin.

Past ARCOS Presents artists include University of Texas at Austin alums anxious 20yr olds’ (Gianina Casale, D’Launa Lawson, Oluwaseun Samuel Olayiwola, Lizzette Chapa, Hunter Sturgis) This Isn’t New (2017) at Museum of Human Achievement, interdisciplinary tap artist Michael J. Love’s The Auralvisual Mixtape Collection, Part II: Dope Fit! (2019) at Carver Museum and Cultural Center, and Angelica Monteiro’s Narratives of the Migrant Body (2023) at Motion Media Arts Center. Applications for the next ARCOS Presents mentorship will open May 31, 2024.

anxious 20yr olds: This Isn't New (2017) Michael J. Love: Dope Fit! (2019) Angelica Monteiro: Narratives of the Migrant Body (2023)


Fiscal Sponsorship

Previously, ARCOS served as a nonprofit fiscal sponsor primarily to Austin-based artists by providing financial management and administrative support for municipal arts grants. Since the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division launched revised funding programs that no longer require fiscal sponsorship for application, this is no longer one of ARCOS’ currently offered forms of arts service. 


Past fiscally sponsored artists and projects include Magdalena Jarkowiec’s In Here at Fusebox Festival (2018) and Us Kids Are Alone In The House at Salvage Vanguard Theater (2016), Millie Heckler’s SoulFunktion Yes Body summer dance parties (2018), Esther Bramlett’s Articulate Austin Series (2019), and Michael J. Love’s virtual-hybrid Beatbox Series (2020-21).