Arts + Culture TX Nancy Wozny highlights the Texas dance scene and its reach across the country. ARCOS Dance is also raising eyebrows about dance in Austin in a good way with their multi-media dance theater work. The company may be based in Austin but they can boast an impressive touring schedule. Their most recent […]
ARCOS | Pushing the boundaries of transmedia performance It’s an honor to have our work considered deeply by Erin Marie Fulton in her eloquent piece in Arts+Culture Texas about our transmedia performance Domain— ARCOS Dance is known as an experimental platform for dance technology—a merging together of bodies in space and digital creation…like a modern brand of […]
Elegy (Domain) | Transmedia Performance at Currents International New Media Festival Journalist Devon Jackson sums up ARCOS’ transmedia performance Elegy at Santa Fe’s Currents International New Media Festival: … like a game of geocaching as imagined and acted out by the likes of Laurie Anderson and Pilobolus… >> Read the full article. <<< Elegy is a chapter of […]
Multimedia Performance | DOMAIN Commences with Hoaxers at Performa/Dance’s 4×3 A review of the multimedia performance prelude to our transmedia work DOMAIN: Hoaxers, part of the transmedia work-in-progress choreographed by Erica Gionfriddo and Curtis Uhlemann for their high-tech dance-theater company, ARCOS Dance, humanity and digital technology collided, merged, fractured, regrouped. With a cast of six […]
The Austin Chronicle previews the 2016 Dance/USA Conference—this week, June 8-11, 500 participants—choreographers, company directors, arts administrators, marketing professionals, fundraisers, and others involved in the field—convene in Austin. Writer Jonelle Seitz thoughtfully examines the trajectory of our local performance industry, citing ARCOS as an exemplar which “has filled a niche for high-tech narrative work, engaged […]
Congratulations to ARCOS Director Eliot Gray Fisher on his win for Best Video/Projection Design at the Austin Critics Table Awards! The Warriors: A Love Story was also nominated as Best Dance Concert, with Best Costume Design (by ARCOS Director Curtis Uhlemann and Bobby Moffett). ARCOS Director Erica Gionfriddo was nominated for Best Movement (Gusev). >>> 2015-2016 Austin […]
We are greatly honored to be nominated for several awards by the Austin Critics’ Table — including Best Dance Concert, Best Video Design (ARCOS Director Eliot Gray Fisher), and Best Costume Design (ARCOS Director Curtis Uhlemann and Bobby Moffett) — for The Warriors: A Love Story. ARCOS Director Erica Gionfriddo has also been nominated for her work […]
We were so pleased to be among the talented artists and academics that came together for“Open All Ports,” the 15th biennial arts and technology symposium hosted by the College’s Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology February 25-27. Artists, musicians, technology specialists, and researchers from all over the world gathered to share new ideas and explore the endless possibilities […]
A roundup of the standout performances the Arts+Culture TX magazine contributors loved in 2015—in their own words: Jessica MacFarlane— My personal favorite performance was part of Barnstorm Dance Festival’s first weekend: ARCOS Dance‘s luscious piece, “She, Extracted,” that had everything I love to see in contemporary dance. Lynn Lane— The work that really resonated for me […]
The Warriors: A Love Story named a top “Big-Bang Dance Concert” The Austin Chronicle lists ARCOS Dance’s September production as one of the nine best dance concerts of 2015 that created a universe of its own.
