'Flori Canta': SDMA+ Disco Riot and Cauleen Smith

DISCO RIOT is a local innovative dance company, focused on collaborative, movement-based art. Throughout the past two years of the pandemic, Disco Riot has created some beautiful dance films and projects, like the "Move American" series of short films about voting issues, or "A Year of Distance." I also recently watched the company add choreography to contemporary artist Ana de Alvear's hyperrealistic drawings at the San Diego Museum of Art. Disco Riot returns to SDMA for a new SDMA+ project, reflecting on Cauleen Smith's contemporary video work — which is itself a work inspired by an early 1600s masterpiece in the museum's collection, Juan Sánchez Cotán’s "Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber."

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The short performances are free with museum admission, and take place in the museum's rotunda. Smith's installation is still on view at SDMA.
—Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS (from San Diego weekend arts preview)

From the museum:
Friday, April 1 at 3:30 and 4:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission. The modern dancers of DISCO RIOT explore the Art of the Americas through movement and physical expression in this special live performance inspired by Cauleen Smith’s video installation “Flori Canta”.

These seven-minute performance sets will take place in the Museum rotunda at

• 3:30 p.m.
• 4:00 p.m.

Performance date and times are subject to change.

Related links:
Disco Riot on Instagram
Disco Riot on Facebook
SDMA on Instagram
SDMA visiting information