Artist Residency at Morehead State University ARCOS was in residence February 9-13 at Morehead State University in Kentucky. Director Erica Gionfriddo set a piece on MSU’s talented emerging artists.
Residency | Multimedia Performance This year, ARCOS will serve as artists-in-residence at the Museum of Human Achievement. MoHA, at the heart of East Austin’s arts scene, is a great interdisciplinary space for our experiments in multimedia performance.
ARCOS is experimenting with a new kind of performance experience with Domain—expanding the duration of the performance and seeking to make it more deeply immersive. In The Ever Now provides a laboratory in which to explore these approaches in collaboration with our Billings-based colleagues Krista Leigh Pasini and Jayme Green. New chapters of Domain debut online and live during […]
Immersive Performance Installation Four experimental artists co-create a new immersive performance installation, In the Ever Now. Eliot Gray Fisher and Erica Gionfriddo are on a two-week artist residency with Billings artists Jayme Green and Krista Leigh Pasini. The ARCOS directors will present new scenes from Domain, featuring Billings artists and students. Their residency includes several film […]
Scholarship Grant | Professional Development for Dance Artists ARCOS is committed to professional development for dance artists. The ARCOS Foundation for the Arts grants Vivian Kim a full scholarship to our 2016 ARCOS Summer Professional Development Workshop. Vivian, a second year MFA in Dance candidate at CU-Boulder , demonstrates a high level of artistic accomplishment and initiative. ARCOS […]
ARCOS professional dance training + residency ARCOS is in residence at University of Colorado Boulder April 19-23. Directors Erica Gionfriddo and Curtis Uhlemann will provide professional dance training in modern technique and contemporary ballet. During the residency, ARCOS will award one full 2016 Summer Workshop scholarship to a dancer who demonstrates a high level of […]
ARCOS Director Erica Gionfriddo was co-artistic director of the University of Texas at Austin Dance Repertory Theatre’s spring concert, Bodies & Souls. Erica’s piece for the concert, They Have Big Voices Where the Universe Ends, is a collective conversation, a dialogue, a confrontation, a comforting silence. The performers are actively listening, both inwardly and outwardly, expressing ideas […]
A beautifully written blog from Texas State University’s Anne Wharton about ARCOS’ time there in October. The first rehearsal was a downhill tumble through movement after movement. Erica Gionfriddo taught phrases in silence; relaying on dancers to visually catch details from her unique style. Her vocabulary is gestural but gutsy; there’s a finesse to the […]
ARCOS directors are in residency at Texas State University, October 26 – November 1, teaching their unique brand of dance technique classes, cross-training, and interdisciplinary arts workshops. They will set a new work on Texas State’s resident student company, Merge, to be presented as part of their Spring Dance Series. More photos and […]
Modern Technique Master Class at Colorado College This Thursday, September 3, the Colorado College Department of Theater and Dance hosts a master class with ARCOS Dance’s Erica Gionfriddo. 4:30-6 pm in Cossitt Hall, 906 N. Cascade Ave, Colorado Springs, CO. The Colorado College Department of Philosophy hosts free, open-to-the-public performances of ARCOS’ acclaimed The Warriors: […]
