Performers

Choreographers and Dance Companies:

Mark Morris, American dancer, choreographer and director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity, humor, and at times eclectic musical accompaniments. Morris is popular among dance aficionados, the music world, as well as mainstream audiences

Erick Hawkins Company: The Erick Hawkins Dance Company, founded in 1951, has been touring the world since the 1960’s. With unwavering integrity and uncompromising working methods, Hawkins choreography is based on a collaboration of music, art, and dance. His dances are performed to live music often composed especially for each dance along with commissioned sets by artists and sculptors. Known for a fluid, effortless style of movement, each dance is energetic yet poetic, serene yet harmonious. The Company continues today to develop dances based on Hawkins pioneering movement theory.

ARCOS experiments rigorously to discover adventurous new forms of contemporary performance, inspired by questioning dominant understandings of the world, turbulent processes of traditions in flux, and the complexity of being human today. They have been invited to present work at MacCallum Choreography Festival, SITE Santa Fe, CURRENTS International New Media Festival, Dancefest, Barnstorm Dance Festival, and their multimedia piece The Warriors: A Love Story received Mervyn Stutter’s “Spirit of the Fringe” award at the Edinburgh Fringe. ARCOS has participated in artistic residencies at Colorado College, Texas State University, Connecticut College’s Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Playa Summerlake, Ucross Foundation, and KHN Center for the Arts, and received grants from National Endowment for the Arts, Rea Charitable Trust, Donors Trust, Hatchfund, and New Mexico Arts. ARCOS offers professional-level training classes, performance intensives, development workshops, and grants to independent artists and students.