did you miss the ARCOS Dance multimedia show in February? If you saw it, do you wish you could have seen it again? well, we've assembled some highlights for you to relive the magic whenever you're wondering.... "what if?" ENJOY!!

Guess who was on the front page of the New Mexican Sunday Edition?
On Friday afternoon writer Staci Matlock spent some time with the directors of (500 words or less) and even came back the next day with her photographer, Jane Phillips, when they both got a sneak peek of the show.
Check what she has to say about the next ARCOS show....
and don't forget to reserve your tickets!!

George Loftin has been a regular presence in ARCOS rehearsals for the past 2 months. An aspiring documentarian, he has been working closely with director Eliot Fisher on the basics of film editing. Check out one of his early clips of dancers in action!

by Mark Garrett

The past weeks that I've spent at ARCOS dance have added a new dimension to my photography. Every experience, every place, and every person adds something new to my knowledge, but at ARCOS, there's a special, kinetic quality to the photos. Half-documenting, half-instinct—my three or more rolls of thirty-six exposures each time I got to rehearsals are filled with the energy of the dancers' movements.

First there's the physical act of taking the photos: a careful, calculated waiting-game for the right moment, with the right shutter speed to capture an arm or a leg jolting through space, threatening to hit me in the face if I get too close. Then there's the perfection: some of the images look intentionally spectral, capturing a movement over the course of its execution, but my experience is still of waiting for that something I know will look good.

It's a double hardship. the dancers attempt a perfect arm movement, body sway, foot flex, and then there's me, waiting for the particular gesture that looks best from a particular angle at a particular time.


Lastly, there's the sense of documenting: of getting the right shot of a collaboration, of photographing the videographer and his similar feelings attempting to capture dancers on film, of what it means to be in preparation: the strain, the length of rehearsals exhibited by the hundreds of photographs I have thus far. It's a wonderful experience to be thrown into such energy, such excitement over a group goal.

you'll have to come see the show to find out what this one is all about:



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