Brentwood|Local Event
Canto de Todes: A Performance and Conversation with Dorian Wood
Performance
Dorian Wood
Photo by Laura Pardo
Saturday, Nov 14, 2026
6:30pm
Getty Center
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Free
Tickets are free, but required for event entrance. Your event ticket will also serve as your Center entrance reservation. Please note, there is a fee for parking.
About
Weaving together chamber classical, folk, torch song, and experimental music, Dorian Wood’s Canto de Todes is a 70-minute distillation born from Wood’s acclaimed 12-hour composition and installation in three movements. The title—Spanish for “Song of Everyone”—is inspired by a lyric of the late Chilean singer and songwriter Violeta Parra. Canto de Todes emphasizes the urgency of music as a vessel for social change and honors the ancestral trajectory of Wood’s Costa Rican-Nicaraguan family and their experience in the US. Featuring a cello quartet, guitar, experimental vocalizations and audiovisual elements, Canto de Todes brings together songs from all three movements to create a new, richly nuanced experience led by Wood’s powerful, multi-textured voice. After the performance, Wood will be in conversation with renowned scholar of Latinx performance practices Dr. Laura Gutiérrez.
On the day of the performance, visitors will be able to experience the second movement of Canto de Todes as an immersive 10-hour multi-channel composition in the Central Garden from 10am to 6pm. Weather permitting.
This event is organized by the Getty Research Institute’s Latin American and Latinx Art Initiative, which seeks to facilitate research on Latin American art with a focus on Central America and its diaspora.
The conversation will be available on the Getty Research Institute YouTube channel following the event.