https://arcosdance.com ARCOS Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:47:43 +0000 https://arcosdance.com en https://arcosdance.com/arcos-presents-creative-resistance Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:27:19 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/arcos-presents-creative-resistance ARCOS | Dance/Art Creation + Service&nbsp; arcosdance.com | @arcosdance&nbsp; Contact: Eliot Gray Fisher&nbsp; 505.690.0194&nbsp; a@arcosdance.com&nbsp; &nbsp;CLICK FOR PRESS ASSETS ︎︎︎&nbsp; FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE&nbsp; ARCOS Presents: Creative Resistance&nbsp; September 4–5, 7, 10–12, 2026&nbsp; CRASHBOX | 5305 Bolm Rd Unit 12, Austin, TX 78721&nbsp; <img width="3200" height="1600" width_o="3200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da1646947cd933ca7e88446286af0081869a143704d3944aed80118f0f261171/ARCOS-Presents-2026-humanitix-banner.jpg" data-mid="250885868" border="0" data-scale="60" data-no-zoom alt="ARCOS Presents: Creative Resistance, Sept 4-5, 7, 10&ndash;12, 2026, Crashbox, 5305 Bolm Rd #12. Lichen Bouboushian - Rupture: Sneak; Venese Alcantar and Omar Mousa: SalSāl (clay that makes sound). This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment." data-caption="ARCOS Presents: Creative Resistance, Sept 4-5, 7, 10–12, 2026, Crashbox, 5305 Bolm Rd #12. Lichen Bouboushian - Rupture: Sneak; Venese Alcantar and Omar Mousa: SalSāl (clay that makes sound). This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da1646947cd933ca7e88446286af0081869a143704d3944aed80118f0f261171/ARCOS-Presents-2026-humanitix-banner.jpg" /> AUSTIN, TX — July 31, 2026. ARCOS Presents: Creative Resistance, the seventh edition of the mentorship program that walks Austin-based independent dance artists through self-producing, brings a double bill of new interdisciplinary work to CRASHBOX September 4–12. Rupture: Sneak by Lichen Bouboushian is built inside an unraveling nest that evokes a disaster zone or refugee camp. SalSāl (clay that makes sound) by Venese Alcantar and Omar Mousa is a dance/film that stages a choreographic confrontation between American lawn sod and the clay beneath it.&nbsp; Rupture: Sneak moves across three generations: Lichen Bouboushian’s grandfather’s childhood in occupied Armenia after the genocide, their father’s life after forced migration due to the Lebanese civil war, and Bouboushian’s own life as a first-generation American. The artist builds an unstable nest inside the set, then slowly unravels it to see what it may offer them. It acts as both home and obstacle as they transform being made small by empire into a survival tactic in Diaspora.&nbsp; Bouboushian is a hybrid artist straddling the worlds of dance, theater, and performance art. While they have presented their work through festivals and residencies throughout the US and Canada, this is their first opportunity to learn the ropes of self-producing, an important step in their artistic trajectory that inspired their application to ARCOS’ program.&nbsp; Alcantar and Mousa’s SalSāl (clay that makes sound) is a surrealist work combining live dance and film, casting “the American LawnTM/sod” as a symbol of silence and immobility in the face of imperial violence. The work asks what it means to be a criminalized body by default, contemplating the body in protest and celebrating collective resilience. “We hold the core understanding that we all come from the clay. We are relatives,” the artists say. “Just as a body would not ignore a hurt limb, a society shouldn’t ignore immense suffering and must move towards change.”&nbsp; Alcantar and Mousa have a deep, ongoing relationship rooted in protest and activism, making SalSāl a natural creative extension of their existing work together. Bridging their worlds of site-responsive dance and film, respectively, they have embraced the challenges of self-producing work that evades categorization.&nbsp; At a kickoff event for the CRASHBOX presentation at Hyperreal Film Club on August 30, the artists will share a preview of their work, including a premiere screening of the film portion of SalSāl, a reading by Bouboushian, a conversation with the artists, and a preview of a documentary following their processes. The full run includes an ASL-interpreted performance on Thursday, September 10 and a masks-required performance on Friday, September 11. Monday, September 7 is a reduced-price industry night.&nbsp; ARCOS directors EG Gionfriddo and Eliot Gray Fisher selected this year’s projects from 11 applications for how the artists embody the call’s theme of “creative resistance,” joined by external reviewers who are alums of past mentorships and have since left Austin. Michael J. Love is a former Princeton Arts Fellow and Austin Critics Table awardee who has performed from Fusebox to Carnegie Hall. Lizzy Tan is a London-based movement director whose work has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe.&nbsp; ARCOS Presents has served as a launchpad for other recent alums, such as Anna Bauer and Sanchita Sharma, now self-producing in Austin; Ciceley Fullylove, who has returned as production manager and mentor to new cohorts; and Alcantar, who made a short work in the program last year and returns with a full-length production this year. ARCOS Presents awardees receive an artist stipend, production budget, equipment inventory access, rehearsal space, and venue rental, as well as creative thought-partnering and production, technical, and outreach support.&nbsp; LICHEN BOUBOUSHIAN is a trans non-binary performance artist originally from rural Texas, with a history of practice in Chicago and New York City, and family ties to Lebanon and Armenia. Their transdisciplinary practice spans postmodern dance, noise/experimental music, social practice, and performance art. Bouboushian creates emotionally jarring juxtapositions of text, experimental voice work, and somatics-based movement practices, as a means to dive into ethical quandaries and critical dialogue about complex social histories. They seek to trouble and uncover what is unsaid and untouched, but often shared and understood. They have shared work in NYC at Danspace Project, Issue Project Room, &amp; Queens Museum; in Chicago at Elastic Arts, Constellation, and Co-Prosperity Sphere; domestically at the New Genre Festival (Tulsa) and Miami Performance Festival; and internationally at Kochi-Muziris Biennale and Queer Zagreb. VENESE ALCANTAR is a Mexican-Indigenous movement practitioner, scholar, and educator researching transgressive rituals through embodied practice. Their work challenges gender norms and femme archetypes while expanding perceptions of the body as landscape, engaging themes of corporeal wit, anthropomorphic expression, and birthing/composting. Alcantar’s work has been presented at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Elisabet Ney Museum, MASS Gallery, and The Blanton. They’ve collaborated with Angelica Monteiro, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, ARCOS, Performing Justice Project, and Girl Forward. As a Pantera artist-in-residence, they taught at Kazan University of Culture and Art in Russia. Alcantar holds an MFA in Dance and Social Justice from the University of Texas at Austin and has published writing on embodied ritual as an interventional tool for the violenced body. OMAR MOUSA is a Palestinian-American filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Before settling in the United States in 2010, he served as media coordinator for UNESCO in Paris, worked on arts and cultural festivals in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Portugal, and Poland, and chaired the jury of the Malta International Dance Folk Festival in 2009. He makes personal and artistic short films for the festival circuit, and through Omar Mousa Picture Production Company, which he founded in 2015, he provides comprehensive media services across Central Texas. His debut feature-length documentary, Izzy Cox: Fragments of a Life, presents an intimate portrait of the outlaw singer-songwriter. ARCOS is a live arts creation, presentation, and service group, rooted in the Austin community since 2013, that cultivates space for rigorously compassionate experimentation to build new forms—of performance, participation, organization, and relation. Calendar Listing ARCOS Presents: Creative Resistance is the seventh edition of ARCOS’ production mentorship program, featuring a double bill of interdisciplinary dance performances: Lichen Bouboushian’s Rupture: Sneak lives between dance, performance art, and oral history, with the performer navigating a perilous set while telling the story of their Armenian, Lebanese, and American heritage. Venese Alcantar and Omar Mousa’s SalSāl (clay that makes sound) is a dance/film that investigates the body as landscape: malleable, marked by history, and in constant transformation. Kickoff Event: Hyperreal Film Club, 301 Chicon St Suite A, Austin, TX 78702 Sunday 8/30, 7:30pm At this kickoff event with live music, ARCOS Presents artists Venese Alcantar, Lichen Bouboushian, and Omar Mousa share a preview of their work, including a premiere screening of the film portion of SalSāl (clay that makes sound), a reading by Bouboushian, a conversation with the artists, and a preview of a documentary following their processes. Tickets: Sliding scale, from $10. arcosdance.com Runtime: Approximately 1 hour with no intermission Performances - CRASHBOX, 5305 Bolm Rd Unit 12, Austin, TX 78721 Friday 9/4, 7:30pm Saturday 9/5, 7:30pm Monday 9/7, 7:30pm (industry night) Thursday 9/10, 7:30pm (ASL interpreted) Friday 9/11, 7:30pm (masks required) Saturday 9/12, 7:30pm Tickets:&nbsp; Sliding scale, from $15 (Sept. 7 industry night from $10). arcosdance.com Runtime: Approximately 2 hours, including a 10-minute intermission&nbsp; PRESS Note to editors: Press tickets available on request. High-resolution photos at arcosdance.com/releases/arcos-presents-creative-resistance. Interviews and rehearsal visits by arrangement. Original music and audio available for broadcast use.&nbsp; PHOTOS All photos as zip file:&nbsp; DOWNLOAD&nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84b9b37214106301789ec002cce454588d177264f6cbc287048bb8dab6f5196d/arcos-creative-resistance-bouboushian-01-amanda-maraist.jpg" data-mid="250886138" border="0" alt="Lichen Bouboushian, photo by Amanda Maraist" data-caption="Lichen Bouboushian, photo by Amanda Maraist" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84b9b37214106301789ec002cce454588d177264f6cbc287048bb8dab6f5196d/arcos-creative-resistance-bouboushian-01-amanda-maraist.jpg" /> Lichen Bouboushian, photo by Amanda Maraist&nbsp; &nbsp;DOWNLOAD&nbsp;<img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8ac4f1deb5da010c86ef130a2c6e1dce01e29082a17c20c1b349b6cdd549666/arcos-creative-resistance-bouboushian-03-walter-wlodarczyk.jpg" data-mid="250886141" border="0" alt="Lichen Bouboushian, photo by Walter Wlodarczyk" data-caption="Lichen Bouboushian, photo by Walter Wlodarczyk" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8ac4f1deb5da010c86ef130a2c6e1dce01e29082a17c20c1b349b6cdd549666/arcos-creative-resistance-bouboushian-03-walter-wlodarczyk.jpg" />Lichen Bouboushian, photo by Walter Wlodarczyk &nbsp;DOWNLOAD&nbsp; <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7764053f233d246a7768d6f038fd91ef4d3af901890f7fb629b3f8d2855f4ec1/arcos-creative-resistance-bouboushian-02-amanda-maraist.jpg" data-mid="250886140" border="0" alt="Lichen Bouboushian, photo by Amanda Maraist" data-caption="Lichen Bouboushian, photo by Amanda Maraist" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7764053f233d246a7768d6f038fd91ef4d3af901890f7fb629b3f8d2855f4ec1/arcos-creative-resistance-bouboushian-02-amanda-maraist.jpg" />Lichen Bouboushian, photo by Amanda Maraist &nbsp;DOWNLOAD&nbsp; <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81759569ac7490a5510b4ae5bc50865c3808d896cde506e96d47620927bb1fab/omar-mousa.jpg" data-mid="250886752" border="0" alt="Omar Mousa, courtesy the artist" data-caption="Omar Mousa, courtesy the artist" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81759569ac7490a5510b4ae5bc50865c3808d896cde506e96d47620927bb1fab/omar-mousa.jpg" /> Omar Mousa, courtesy the artist &nbsp;DOWNLOAD&nbsp;<img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7a5a708006b76622f7adae9020b96be3bbb3dd01176b1a62470275235a9e21b/venese-headshot.JPG" data-mid="250886753" border="0" alt="Venese Alcantar, photo by Angel Blanco" data-caption="Venese Alcantar, photo by Angel Blanco" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7a5a708006b76622f7adae9020b96be3bbb3dd01176b1a62470275235a9e21b/venese-headshot.JPG" /> Venese Alcantar, photo by Angel Blanco &nbsp;DOWNLOAD&nbsp; <img width="2913" height="1942" width_o="2913" height_o="1942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed5c9aab4b7877b3d7138560b6626586045bda4098e7939da300db0d9aeea575/arcos-presents-creative-resistance-salsal-03-omar-mousa.png" data-mid="250919551" border="0" alt="SalSāl video still by Omar Mousa" data-caption="SalSāl video still by Omar Mousa" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed5c9aab4b7877b3d7138560b6626586045bda4098e7939da300db0d9aeea575/arcos-presents-creative-resistance-salsal-03-omar-mousa.png" />SalSāl video still by Omar Mousa &nbsp;DOWNLOAD&nbsp; <img width="3240" height="2160" width_o="3240" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e958ad27f364959c8df4a93c6761c42655755fbb60a6f60d4b9bdff4f8aa74f3/arcos-presents-creative-resistance-salsal-01-eliot-gray-fisher.jpg" data-mid="250891100" border="0" alt="SalSāl production still, photo by Eliot Gray Fisher" data-caption="SalSāl production still, photo by Eliot Gray Fisher" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e958ad27f364959c8df4a93c6761c42655755fbb60a6f60d4b9bdff4f8aa74f3/arcos-presents-creative-resistance-salsal-01-eliot-gray-fisher.jpg" /> SalSāl production still, photo by Eliot Gray Fisher &nbsp;DOWNLOAD&nbsp; <img width="1293" height="1940" width_o="1293" height_o="1940" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d000c7f89651ddbfb3032f78efe64ed06300c105eca86e8fc6b05b5fe75ec46b/arcos-presents-creative-resistance-salsal-02-omar-mousa.png" data-mid="250919521" border="0" alt="SalSāl video still by Omar Mousa" data-caption="SalSāl video still by Omar Mousa" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d000c7f89651ddbfb3032f78efe64ed06300c105eca86e8fc6b05b5fe75ec46b/arcos-presents-creative-resistance-salsal-02-omar-mousa.png" />SalSāl video still by Omar Mousa &nbsp;DOWNLOAD&nbsp; AUDIO Audio cleared for broadcast use in connection with coverage of this production. &nbsp;DOWNLOAD MP3 &nbsp; DOWNLOAD WAV&nbsp; Rupture: Sneak – live performance excerpt by Lichen Bouboushian (0:58). &nbsp;&nbsp;DOWNLOAD MP3&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;DOWNLOAD WAV&nbsp; SalSāl (clay that makes sound) – music excerpt (0:25). Music by oudist Griffin Romley. &nbsp; https://arcosdance.com/ARCOS Wed, 18 May 2022 00:49:31 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/ARCOS ARCOS ︎ https://arcosdance.com/holding-up-the-void-2026 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:47:43 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/holding-up-the-void-2026 <img width="1920" height="1200" width_o="1920" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f89ff05f7ea8bb415c7bcb5445cd4763f741deadf3ab6d280e4de616972fbe1f/holding-up-the-void-2026.png" data-mid="252419214" border="0" data-no-zoom alt="Holding Up the Void, October 8&ndash;10, 2026 @ Arts Mission Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX" data-caption="Holding Up the Void, October 8–10, 2026 @ Arts Mission Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f89ff05f7ea8bb415c7bcb5445cd4763f741deadf3ab6d280e4de616972fbe1f/holding-up-the-void-2026.png" /> <img width="728" height="191" width_o="728" height_o="191" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d1d95ae31ce6c8bdf9c15aea69a36c047791564c0037a38745a3539f91b69fe/tickets.gif" data-mid="252148356" border="0" data-scale="8" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode alt="TICKETS" data-caption="TICKETS" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/728/i/9d1d95ae31ce6c8bdf9c15aea69a36c047791564c0037a38745a3539f91b69fe/tickets.gif" /> https://arcosdance.com/description Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:20:14 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/description experiment to build new forms On this site, ARCOS shares our&nbsp;philosophy, selected projects, and publications that offer a window into our creative practice. Our arts service includes weekly open-level classes and a mentorship program for independent dance artists. Please contact us for more information, including about touring. https://arcosdance.com/training-development Wed, 17 May 2023 17:17:24 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/training-development TRAINING + DEVELOPMENT &nbsp;WORKSHOPS&nbsp; &nbsp;CLASSES&nbsp; &nbsp;ARTIST SUPPORT&nbsp; https://arcosdance.com/class-coffee Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:40:19 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/class-coffee Re/TrainingCLASS + COFFEE Tuesdays 10:15–11:45am 1050 E 11th Street, Austin$10/class (cash/card/venmo) This facilitated movement session is a form of Re/Training designed to connect us to the pleasure of our dancing body. Erica “EG” Gionfriddo verbally facilitates a stream-of-consciousness and responsive container for us to investigate our desires and habits while uncoupling from expectations that no longer serve us. Infusing deep anatomical investigation with exploratory risk, we work to blur the boundary between sensation and execution, experience and performance, training and play. Through continuous movement we challenge our physical, mental and imaginative stamina, increasing our capacity to hold complexity in ourselves and with each other. <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e509abb8505558b02ca30a2c580853d9ccffa325c3574f0241907fabeea1dba4/Fisher004872-R1-020.jpg" data-mid="190298877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e509abb8505558b02ca30a2c580853d9ccffa325c3574f0241907fabeea1dba4/Fisher004872-R1-020.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7e746b8653a48051fcfcdec6ea7fa57647b7157ad0adc59ddb0a565e926aaa5/Fisher004872-R1-009.jpg" data-mid="190298872" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7e746b8653a48051fcfcdec6ea7fa57647b7157ad0adc59ddb0a565e926aaa5/Fisher004872-R1-009.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbe3cb8eda0094b407ef8e63ce1d6a4d9ad9e8788d7c394075926da34195993e/Fisher004872-R1-007.jpg" data-mid="190298867" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbe3cb8eda0094b407ef8e63ce1d6a4d9ad9e8788d7c394075926da34195993e/Fisher004872-R1-007.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/849d98cb10d487d69472c78532fb907e174269a6743c9e0dece4c13f63d9b93b/Fisher004872-R1-010.jpg" data-mid="190298857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/849d98cb10d487d69472c78532fb907e174269a6743c9e0dece4c13f63d9b93b/Fisher004872-R1-010.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96c22b4c17b84f4c584ead4eeb528e34198b1c0df1b5a3a1b3c146d409f31adc/Fisher004872-R1-015.jpg" data-mid="190298863" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96c22b4c17b84f4c584ead4eeb528e34198b1c0df1b5a3a1b3c146d409f31adc/Fisher004872-R1-015.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/217dc18678634384969a13c56656f03ae441e2669667cd4b682670b533b49add/Fisher004872-R1-017.jpg" data-mid="190298858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/217dc18678634384969a13c56656f03ae441e2669667cd4b682670b533b49add/Fisher004872-R1-017.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/975395eb4f79292e3f0ac996319b1b9df1efef71a47e3768e4805533c70f640e/Fisher004872-R1-014.jpg" data-mid="190298870" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/975395eb4f79292e3f0ac996319b1b9df1efef71a47e3768e4805533c70f640e/Fisher004872-R1-014.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/494afdb57ffc571e11f1ad7aa9be7fb36274e833abdbddb2e42cc01a6aa19b24/Fisher004872-R1-018.jpg" data-mid="190298873" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/494afdb57ffc571e11f1ad7aa9be7fb36274e833abdbddb2e42cc01a6aa19b24/Fisher004872-R1-018.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b7510264b72f50a7011b4926ff9299822986cf7342a80c9fd99ff946b79e4a2/Fisher004872-R1-021.jpg" data-mid="190298865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b7510264b72f50a7011b4926ff9299822986cf7342a80c9fd99ff946b79e4a2/Fisher004872-R1-021.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c2fdd184decd84c8a3b6bb3f9fc98a129604dcfa193b4ab49e5f2e90ef4cec6/Fisher004872-R1-024.jpg" data-mid="190298860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c2fdd184decd84c8a3b6bb3f9fc98a129604dcfa193b4ab49e5f2e90ef4cec6/Fisher004872-R1-024.jpg" /> A series of photos shot on a manual 35mm film camera of dancers Re/Training at Class + Coffee. Bodies appear mid-motion, expressive and expansive. Folks chat in the studio or pose with big smiles for the camera. Many images are grainy, underexposed, or out of focus. This varying quality reveals how anyone can become the photographer in class, and who took which photo is unknown. The final image is a double exposure of folks enjoying coffee together after class. <img width="1920" height="682" width_o="1920" height_o="682" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f6307325f08234aa9b758a14dc827699edc1415b4638e281bdc631b4e51a81e/Austin-Arts-Culture-Music-and-Entertainment-Logo-Official.png" data-mid="246854130" border="0" data-scale="6" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f6307325f08234aa9b758a14dc827699edc1415b4638e281bdc631b4e51a81e/Austin-Arts-Culture-Music-and-Entertainment-Logo-Official.png" /> This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, &amp; Entertainment. https://arcosdance.com/about-workshops Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:42:12 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/about-workshops Workshops ARCOS has held a series of 18 workshops since 2012. In recent years, ARCOS has invited guest artists to introduce alternative movement and creative modalities to workshop participants, such as Sidra Bell’s MODULE and Practice Progress’ UNtensive. These workshop curricula are designed to inspire a radical reimagining of the practice and role of movement artists in contemporary society, whose sensitivity toward embodied labor is essential in awakening everyone to the value of our bodies, at a time when technologies and social systems consistently work to devalue them. If no current workshop information is listed below, please return here, sign up for our email newsletter, or follow us on social media for information on future workshops. https://arcosdance.com/about-artist-support Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:24:03 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/about-artist-support ARTIST SUPPORTARCOS 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 programming includes the ARCOS Presents production mentorship. https://arcosdance.com/arcos-presents-banner Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:33:12 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/arcos-presents-banner <img width="1080" height="532" width_o="1080" height_o="532" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9acd332695e7272bc91dd289af37f18384008779ef721bc14e7a8dcb4d12c204/arcos-presents-2026-title.png" data-mid="246049956" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9acd332695e7272bc91dd289af37f18384008779ef721bc14e7a8dcb4d12c204/arcos-presents-2026-title.png" /> https://arcosdance.com/about-arcos-presents26 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:34:49 +0000 ARCOS https://arcosdance.com/about-arcos-presents26 ARCOS is committed to relational, rather than transactional, practices of sharing resources, knowledge, and care in artmaking. ARCOS Presents awardees receive financial support, including an artist stipend, production budget, studio rehearsal space, technical inventory access, and performance venue. Additionally, mentorship provides awardees creative thought-partnering, production and technical support, and community outreach guidance. ARCOS Presents 2027 programming will be announced in December 2026. <img width="1200" height="1855" width_o="1200" height_o="1855" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f28e6bf2162e1730ba094457ca822c1576e68884487738b53eaddd412d762618/ARCOS-Presents-2026-poster-final.jpg" data-mid="252120839" border="0" alt="Lichen Bouboushian: Rupture: Sneak / Venese Alcantar and Omar Mousa: Salsāl (clay that makes sound)" data-caption="Lichen Bouboushian: Rupture: Sneak / Venese Alcantar and Omar Mousa: Salsāl (clay that makes sound)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f28e6bf2162e1730ba094457ca822c1576e68884487738b53eaddd412d762618/ARCOS-Presents-2026-poster-final.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ea2823a51770a963533d9de0b29c251a49e237be1ba3343dfeb9ff7434c1083/ARCOS-Presents-long-form-2025-IG.jpg" data-mid="252120792" border="0" alt="Sanchita Sharma: Routing / Al Hamauei: My Body, Your Choice (2025)" data-caption="Sanchita Sharma: Routing / Al Hamauei: My Body, Your Choice (2025)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ea2823a51770a963533d9de0b29c251a49e237be1ba3343dfeb9ff7434c1083/ARCOS-Presents-long-form-2025-IG.jpg" /> <img width="1482" height="1920" width_o="1482" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34f497997b5bd67ae9db9b09f326363edac35eb656134d1778bcc873df108342/ARCOS-Presents-short-form---website-version.jpg" data-mid="252120791" border="0" alt="Adrian Jos&eacute; Flores: Mestizo / Anna Bauer: delicates / The Clubhouse: The Tale of the Swamp Witch / Nandini Majumdar: Empty Beat (2025)" data-caption="Adrian José Flores: Mestizo / Anna Bauer: delicates / The Clubhouse: The Tale of the Swamp Witch / Nandini Majumdar: Empty Beat (2025)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34f497997b5bd67ae9db9b09f326363edac35eb656134d1778bcc873df108342/ARCOS-Presents-short-form---website-version.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abccc4b338fb973646b830bb2d2b94f8d11bfa422e8a923933d9b06e42ead4bf/arcos-presents-2024-1080.jpg" data-mid="252120789" border="0" alt="Kelly Goetz: Menstruator / Ciceley Fullylove: Rhythm &amp; Grooves (2024)" data-caption="Kelly Goetz: Menstruator / Ciceley Fullylove: Rhythm &amp; Grooves (2024)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abccc4b338fb973646b830bb2d2b94f8d11bfa422e8a923933d9b06e42ead4bf/arcos-presents-2024-1080.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1553" width_o="1200" height_o="1553" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b11807b611caf8b2314dea5c94671508027952852a1801b67cadb88eff179ba/NOTMB-poster---web.png" data-mid="252120787" border="0" alt="Angelica Monteiro: Narratives of the Migrant Body (2023)" data-caption="Angelica Monteiro: Narratives of the Migrant Body (2023)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b11807b611caf8b2314dea5c94671508027952852a1801b67cadb88eff179ba/NOTMB-poster---web.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae152256723f4f6806813f24dc9f7e233ff5a200d06a781d235392049f31939e/michael-love-dope-fit.jpg" data-mid="252120782" border="0" alt="Michael J. Love: Dope Fit! (2019)" data-caption="Michael J. Love: Dope Fit! (2019)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae152256723f4f6806813f24dc9f7e233ff5a200d06a781d235392049f31939e/michael-love-dope-fit.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27ae4d62da4de872c37524948dc18efb7642e9e91d054dce51015b33a6c12801/arcos-presents-2018---poster.jpg" data-mid="252120781" border="0" alt="anxious 20yr olds: This Isn't New (2017)" data-caption="anxious 20yr olds: This Isn't New (2017)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27ae4d62da4de872c37524948dc18efb7642e9e91d054dce51015b33a6c12801/arcos-presents-2018---poster.jpg" /> Past ARCOS Presents awarded artists include: Lichen Bouboushian for Rupture: Sneak and Venese Alcantar and Omar Mousa for Salsāl (clay that makes sound) (2026)Sanchita Sharma for Routing and Al Hamauei for My Body, Your Choice (2025) Adrian José Flores for MESTIZO, Anna Bauer with Celeste Camfield for delicates, The Clubhouse (Gabbi Melton and Sarah Smith) for The Tale of the Swamp Witch,&nbsp;Saraswati Nandini Majumdar&nbsp;and Venese Alcantar for Empty Beat (2025) Kelly Goetz for Menstruator and Ciceley Fullylove for Rhythm &amp; Grooves (2024) at CRASHBOX Angelica Monteiro for&nbsp;Narratives of the Migrant Body (2023) at Motion Media Arts Center&nbsp; Interdisciplinary tap artist Michael J. Love for The Auralvisual Mixtape Collection, Part II: Dope Fit! (2019) at Carver Museum and Cultural Center University of Texas at Austin alums anxious 20yr olds (Gianina Casale, D’Launa Lawson, Oluwaseun Samuel Olayiwola, Lizzette Chapa, Hunter Sturgis, Lizzy Tan) for This Isn’t New (2017) at Museum of Human Achievement <img width="1920" height="682" width_o="1920" height_o="682" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f6307325f08234aa9b758a14dc827699edc1415b4638e281bdc631b4e51a81e/Austin-Arts-Culture-Music-and-Entertainment-Logo-Official.png" data-mid="252120800" border="0" data-scale="7" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode alt="Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment" data-caption="Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f6307325f08234aa9b758a14dc827699edc1415b4638e281bdc631b4e51a81e/Austin-Arts-Culture-Music-and-Entertainment-Logo-Official.png" /> These projects are supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, &amp; Entertainment.