Grin: A Community Performance Project
Lower Level Walter Wing

To celebrate the closing day of our current special exhibitions, Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You and Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris. Flux n Flow Dance Center will be performing a piece inspired by We’ve Been Expecting You.

Figures in the Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You exhibit grin broadly in self-satisfaction. They don’t shy away from the viewer’s gaze or try to make their smiles pleasing. By refusing shame and transforming it into satisfaction and pleasure, they embody a queer narrative.

The dance performers interact with Williams’s figures by creating a living sculpture as they alternate between grins of smug self-indulgence and a dance ritual of collective joy and connection. Set to Charli XCX and Billie Eilish’s teasing collaboration “Guess” on loop, viewers see the group continuously choose shamelessness, pleasure, and connection within a durational performance that celebrates resilience alongside rest and regeneration.

No registration or fee required, and museum admission is free for CMA Free Sundays.