Do you love dance? Is one of your close family members a veteran? Or do you just love going out to see a free production on your typical weekend? Whether you answered yes or no to any of the above questions, on September 4th and 5th, Colorado College’s Philosophy Department will present two dance theater performances of the piece The Warriors: A Love Story, a production exquisitely crafted by Director Eliot Gray Fisher and ARCOS Dance, a multimedia performance company centered in Austin, Texas that is trying to shine light on the traumatic conflicts that war can bring to the various aspects of our daily lives like love and family.
The Warriors: A Love Story is a realistic production inspired by Fisher’s maternal grandparents, J. Glenn and Ursula Grey, and their experiences during World War II that combines the intimate and powerful demonstrations of dance with original music, sound design, real family artifacts, and Fisher’s own narration. This medly of artistic mediums seeks to depict his grandparents’ struggle to deal with the impacts of war on their lives while trying to make us think about how war has touched ours.
The production has received spectacular reviews at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival that even earned it the Mervyn Stutter’s “Spirit of the Fringe” award in addition to several mentions from national publications. After the production, ARCOS will invite representatives from Rocky Mountain Human Services to speak about how art can be used to heal even the most traumatic wounds of war and the things we can do to work towards world peace. In order to promote this ideal, ARCOS members will also volunteer during their residency week in Colorado Springs to assist in RMHS’s mission of ending veteran homelessness in the city by the end of this year.
The dance-theater production will be held at 7:30 p.m. both September 4 and 5 at the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center. Tickets (free of charge) are currently available at the Worner Campus Center desk.