(R)evolution Artist Program 2026

 

 

What is the (R)evolution Artist Program?

 

DISCO RIOT’s (R)evolution Artist Program is a cohort-style internship focused on experiential learning for San Diego-based rising dance artists. We provide a small group of Rising Artists (ages 20-26) a curated immersive experience in DISCO RIOT’s inner workings for a full programming season (January – October). The program includes free dance classes, monthly professional development workshops and cohort meetings, a monthly check-in with a uniquely designated mentor, and a collaborative 10-week S P A C E residency with an opportunity to showcase original work. In collaboration with our partners, transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project and Malashock Dance, the interns support performance and event production, administration support, shadow dance company rehearsals, and teach. We believe the next phase of building a truly sustainable dance ecosystem in San Diego hinges on the integration of young artist voices.

 

Over the course of the season, artists develop an understanding of the local performing arts ecosystem, engage with an extended network of dance professionals, local studio spaces and performance venues (i.e. formal theater spaces, black box theaters, community spaces, classrooms, outdoor spaces, etc.), and build relationships with fellow artists. The Rising Artists develop transferable skills essential for a successful career in the arts, including but not limited to speaking and writing about their creative processes, event marketing and promotion, collaborative problem solving, artistic leadership, developing competitive applications, and performance production. Together we will build critical skills for a healthy, autonomous, successful career in the field of dance.

2026 (R)evolution Interns

Skyla Miles (she/they)

 

I am a movement artist particularly interested in experimental improvisation based dance in relationship with sound, text and other textures/mediums I may find myself engaging with. My work as an artist is to evoke and reckon with the experiences and states many of us are unable to make sense of or know what to do with. I am interested in creating a state or many states in my work that is in direct conversation and direct agitation with the conditions that are at times intentionally set and many other times improvisationally present and thus ever changing. I attempt to gather and unearth moments from my lived experience and the experiences of those around me and use the dancing body to create something else. I am curious about how my emerging practice can be a vessel for something beyond us all to be unearthed and what happens after this transience.

Eon Allum (they/them)

 

Eon Allum (they/them) is a queer Asian American dance artist and filmmaker born and raised in San Diego, California. They trained at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts and received their BFA in dance at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in 2025. They have a love for creating dance films and they use visual effects, makeup, and poetry to craft their worlds.

 

They incorporate various dance forms into their movement language including hip hop, butoh, contact improv, and modern, and are recognized for their fluid, intricate style emphasizing texture and connectivity. They have a love for improvisation and spontaneous composition of stories through movement.

 

In their undergraduate years they performed in works by Sorah Yang, Mike Esperanza, Kelly Hirina, Dolly Sfier, and David Dorfman, and they produced their capstone concert, Open Your Teeth in 2024, part of which was selected for the Heidi Duckler 4D Film Festival Student Screening in 2025. Their art is drawn from the whimsy and disquiet of modern life, and they ultimately strive to fight the dilution of the soul. They aspire to make more space for queer and Asian voices in the arts and create works that fascinate and comfort through liminality and fantasy.

Hope Worth (she/her)

 

Hope Worth, a San Diego-based dancer and choreographer, uses her background in graphic design and art history to enhance her dance practice by applying the fundamental principles and elements of traditional fine art to her movement and choreography. Hope enjoys exploring the integration of technology and digital art with dance to reach new audiences.

Tiffany Martinez-Delgado (she/her)

 

Tiffany is a Mexican American dance artist from San Diego, California. She first began dancing at SDSCPA and continued into Grossmont College where she received her Associate’s Degree in Dance. In 2022, Tiffany graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts for Dance.The past couple of years, Tiffany had the privilege to perform and choreograph within the San Diego Dance community. She also had the opportunity to premiere her first dance films in Long Beach which sparked her curiosity in blending dance with filmmaking that she always wanted to explore. She is currently the Studio Manager at Inspire School of Ballet where she oversees the programs for dancers 18 months to 18 years old.

Ethne Acosta (she/her)

 

Hello! My name is Ethne, I was born and raised here in San Diego, I am 21 years old, and I have been dancing since I was 8 years old. My favorite styles are ballet and modern, and I love the emotional expression and athleticism of dance. I also have experience in jazz, hip hop, lyrical, improvisation, ballet folklorico, and I hope to continue learning more.

Liz Fields (she/her)

 

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Liz trained in ballet, contemporary, and modern dance at a local dance studio. She continued her dance education at LaGuardia High School in Manhattan– senior year she also studied at the Martha Graham School. In 2022 she graduated from The George Mason University School of Dance with a BFA.

 

Liz believes that dance, when facilitated with health and compassion in mind, can serve as a portal to embodiment for dancers and non-dancers alike. She feels that the beauty of dance emerges when connection is made– to self, to others, to the environment, or all. She aspires to create a space that will challenge ways of thinking/moving, foster joy, and inspire exploration. For her, to create dance is to act as a vessel for personal truth and experience to be communicated. To be an artist is an act of service.

 

Throughout her career she has been given the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Larry Keigwin, Alejandro Cerudo, Bill T Jones, Tadej Brdnik, and Blakley White-McGuire. She has danced and showed work in multiple festivals throughout New York City.

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