Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Join us for a movement and art-making workshop led by dancer Alyssa Rose from Disco Riot! Together, we’ll explore how movement can inspire creative expression through materials. All bodies and experience levels are welcome. A light snack will be provided.

This program is intended for adult audiences. Capacity is limited to 25 participants.

11AM: Welcome and introductions

11:30AM: Movement explorations

12PM: Material response and art-making

Alyssa Rose (they/them) is a multimedia artist, advocate, organizer and educator based on Kumeyaay land (San Diego, CA). Their mission is to dissolve access barriers to embodied liberation practices like dance, somatics, Dharma, Yoga, and art-making through operationalizing and integrating equity into performance and practice spaces. Alyssa is a queer, trans, disabled, mixed race, autistic adhd-er with 10 years of experience producing performance art, 25 years of dance training in various movement and dance forms, 15 years as a visual artist, 10 years of meditation practice, and 5 years as a dedicated student of the Dharma and Yoga with their teacher Sarah Clark. Alyssa currently teaches, writes grants, produces, and is responsible for operations and accessibility at DISCO RIOT - a shared leadership, community-centered dance nonprofit that actively supports local independent marginalized artists. In their work and life, Alyssa explores the possibilities of collective liberation through their art practice and commitment to disability justice. In teaching and hosting, they feel called to empower marginalized people through embodiment and radical expression. As a research-based artist, Alyssa is most interested in the interplay of the liberation project of the Dharma and collective creative communion and uses improvisational art practices to explore the mystery of being alive and interconnected.

The world needs more movement-based art.

DISCO RIOT is an organization all about building a movement through movement to make art culture in San Diego more relevant, more impactful, and more collaborative. We’re on a mission to connect artists across disciplines, support innovative dance programs, and provide an educational space for movement-artists and collaborators to amplify their art in the modern world.

We believe art is integral to (r)evolution; it carries the power to push boundaries, promote community, and motivate justice.

DISCO gives form to RIOT.