Arcell Cabaug

Arcell Cabuag is a first-generation Filipino American from San Jose, California. He moved to New York City to attend the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, where he was introduced to Ronald K. Brown. Soon after, he joined EVIDENCE, A Dance Company as its first apprentice, shortly became a company member one year later, and has since served as its associate artistic director since 2004. 

Arcell has danced with Camille A. Brown, Mekeda Thomas, Rock the House for Paramount Pictures, the Shoji Tabuchi Show (Branson, MO), the Richard Rodgers Centennial Production of The King and I, and dance festivals worldwide. His television credits include Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Choreographed,” and a Codorniu Cava commercial featuring PILOBOLUS for Spanish television. Arcell has assisted Ronald K. Brown in creating repertory on Philadanco Dance Company, MUNTU Drum and Dance Company, TU Dance, Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company, and he served as associate choreographer for the Tony Award-winning Broadway and national touring productions of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. 

Arcell is proud to serve the dance community as a long-standing educator and advocate both nationally and abroad. He has served as Professor of Dance at Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus), Co-Artistic Director of the Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble, and an educator at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York University, University of Massachusetts, Boston Arts Academy, the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, The Ailey School Certificate Program, Marymount Manhattan College, and Boston Conservatory. Arcell is a 2004 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award-winner for his performance and work with EVIDENCE, and he received the 2024 Dance Teacher Magazine Award’s Leader of the Path Abundance Award of Distinction alongside Ronald K. Brown.