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LADP Presents | WALL-BODY
Shu Kinouchi + Hiroshi Kaneko
Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 8:00PM
Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 7:00PM
WALL—BODY brings together choreographer Shu Kinouchi and designer Hiroshi Kaneko in a performance that examines how walls shape the body’s relationship to space. The work assembles inanimate objects into an ensemble in dialogue with Kinouchi’s solo choreography.
Twelve movable ten‑foot walls and a tower create shifting conditions that test the endurance of the body and its desire for change. The performance approaches the intimacies of shelter, division, obstruction, and transgression through gestures of vulnerability, resistance, and care. The work emerges from an extended exchange of drawings, dances, models, and conversations, bringing architecture and choreography into a shared creative process.
WALL—BODY invites audiences to consider how we navigate the structures that surround us. #linkinbio
WALL‑BODY was developed and produced with support from L.A. Dance Project, with funding from Charlene Achki‑Repko, Susan Baumgarten, Robert Braun & Joan Friedman, Susan Friedman, Jane Jelenko, Michael & Aliza Lesser, David Totheroh, and Sue Tsao.
L.A. Dance Project
2245 E. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
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Image credit 1) @hope.a.spears 2-3) @djeneba.aduayom@benjaminmillepied
LOS ANGELES - Join us today, Friday, May 15 at 1:30 PM, for a working rehearsal with choreographer Jamar Roberts as he sets his section of City of Dance on the company. These sessions offer a rare chance to observe the dancers at work and experience the creative process behind this citywide project.
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Rehearsals reflect work in progress and may include pauses, adjustments, and conversation. The session runs approximately 45 minutes, followed by a 15‑minute Q&A with Roberts, offering insight into his artistic approach and his contribution to City of Dance.
Location: L.A. Dance Project
2245 E. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles 90021
Video: Roberts speaks about dance as an art form. Excerpted from an interview with Asma Mhalla during creation for La Ville Dansée in 2025.
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Find your City of Dance this June.
A citywide program of free public performances across Los Angeles. Presented by L.A. Dance Project + Paris Dance Project.
June 2–7 and 16–21, 2026
Performance Locations
Century Park — June 2–4, 12:30 PM
Marciano Art Foundation — June 4, 6:30 PM
Hollyhock House at Barnsdall Art Park* — June 6, 4:00 PM
Tongva Park, Downtown Santa Monica* — June 7, 4:00 PM
Hollywood Forever — June 17, 7:00 PM
Gloria Molina Grand Park at The Music Center* — June 18, 12:00 PM
LACMA — June 21, 3:00 PM
*Select performances include conversations on urbanism, ecology, technology, and social change, curated by Françoise Vergès.
@benjaminmillepied@parisdanceproject@asma.mhalla@jamarrobertsofficial@philipglass@jacqueline.bulnes
🎬 Thomas Brémond, TLB Agency
🎼 Philip Glass
The Marciano Art Foundation is pleased to host L.A. Dance Project @ladanceproject for a performance of City of Dance, co‑presented by L.A. Dance Project and Paris Dance Project, which will take place at select locations around Los Angeles as part of its U.S. premiere, transforming iconic sites across the city into stages for free, site-specific performances.
Beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 4, 2026, City of Dance will take place in the Lobby space at the Marciano Art Foundation.
Shortly following the dance performance, there will be a panel conversation in the Library including panelist Joshua Ramirez, Executive Director of Saint Remy Arts & Culture and Associate Education Specialist of Youth Programs at the J. Paul Getty Center; and moderator Lauren Mackler, writer, curator and founder of Public Fiction @publicfiction
Reserve your tickets to this evening of dance and conversation at the link in our bio.
Photograph 1 by Lori Stessel; Photographs 2-5 by Manuel Obadia
Open Rehearsal at L.A. Dance Project
with Jamar Roberts
Friday, May 15, 2026 | 1:30 PM
FREE with RSVP
Join us in the studio for a working rehearsal with choreographer Jamar Roberts as he sets his section of CITY OF DANCE on the company. This session offers the opportunity to observe the company at work, and see the process behind this citywide project.
The rehearsal will followed by a brief Q+A. RSVP, LINK IN BIO.
CITY OF DANCE is a free, citywide public program that activates sites across Los Angeles and proposes a simple but radical idea: to take dance out of the theater and bring it into shared public spaces. The body carries history, and so does the city; bringing dance out of the jewel box of the theater—a space some may not feel invited into or able to access—allows those histories to meet in the open, where movement and place can speak to one another.
Set to Philip Glass’s score for the non-narrative film Koyaanisqatsi (1982), five choreographers — Dimitri Chamblas, Madeline Hollander, Benjamin Millepied, Jamar Roberts, and Pam Tanowitz — each respond to a section of the music, creating a unified work reflecting on technology, modern life, and a world out of balance. Learn more on our webste, or through the link in bio.
Performances
June 2–4, 12:30 PM daily — Century Park
June 4, 6:30 PM — Marciano Art Foundation *
June 6, 4:00 PM — Hollyhock House at Barnsdall Art Park *
June 7, 4:00 PM — Tongva Park in Downtown Santa Monica *
June 17, 7:00 PM — Hollywood Forever
June 18, 12:00 PM — Gloria Molina Grand Park at The Music Center in Downtown L.A. *
June 21, 3:00 PM — LACMA
*Select performances followed by conversations on urbanism, ecology, technology, and social change, curated by author and political scientist Françoise Vergès.
Presented by L.A. Dance project and Paris Dance Project.
CITY OF DANCE premiered in Paris in 2025 as La Ville Dansee and brought together 10,000 spectators across Paris and four partner neighbouring cities, through seven free performances held in iconic locations such as the Parvis de La Défense, Gare de Lyon, La Villette and the Cité du Cinéma.
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LADP Presents | WALL—BODY
Shu Kinouchi + Hiroshi Kaneko
Premieres Saturday, May 16
With performances May 17, 21, and 22, 2026
CALL + RESPONSE offers a look into the shared vocabulary developed by Shu Kinouchi and Hiroshi Kaneko—a study in how drawings, materials, and movement informed one another. These early exchanges form the foundation of the spatial and choreographic world of WALL—BODY.
Tickets via link in bio.
LADP/2245 E. Washington Blvd. DTLA 90021
@shushuagogo@rhkaneko@benjaminmillepied
#ladppresents
#ladanceproject
Thank you to everyone who joined us this past Saturday at our DTLA studio and performance space for a look inside the world of WALL—BODY. Here are a few moments from the open rehearsal with choreographer Shu Kinouchi and architect Hiroshi Kaneko—movement, architecture, and the shifting space between them.
LADP Presents: WALL—BODY premieres this May at L.A. Dance Project. Tickets are available now. #LinkInBio
May 16 at 8pm
May 17 at 7pm
May 21 at 8pm
May 22 at 8pm
Audio: Yo‑Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin, Allegro prestissimo
@shushuagogo@rhkaneko
LAST DAY TO APPLY
Enter the process.
The Performance Labs are built for dancers who want to make, not just take.
Two weeks of physical research, collaboration, and performance.
Performance Lab 001 — Mike Tyus x Diego Vega Solorza
Performance Lab 002 — Dolly Sfeir
July 27 – August 9, 2026
The door closes May 4th
Apply now.
INSIDE THE COLLABORATION
A Dialogue between Shu Kinouchi + Hiroshi Kaneko
Over the past year, choreographer Shu Kinouchi and architect Hiroshi Kaneko have been building WALL—BODY through an evolving exchange of drawings, dances, models, and conversations.
What began with a simple question — “Why walls?” — grew into a deep exploration of boundaries, vulnerability, support, and the ways bodies and structures shape one another.
Their full interview traces the evolution of the work, from early sketches to the twelve shifting walls that define the performance.
Read the full interview — link in bio.
Then buy tickets to see WALL—BODY May 16, 17, 21 + 22 at L.A. Dance Project.
@shushuagogo@rhkaneko@benjaminmillepied
#ladppresents
#wallbody
All images @djeneba.aduayom
Performance Lab 002 – Dolly Sfeir
An invitation into a focused, personal creative process. This lab explores repetition, task, and transformation, asking what movement holds and how it evolves over time.
Come ready to question, refine, and stay with the work as it unfolds.
July 27 – August 9, 2026
Apply by May 4
Link in bio.
Honoring Anna Halprin on Earth Day
“Dance is what you see, what you smell. It’s what you hear. It’s how you bring your consciousness and awareness to your experience. So if I bring my consciousness to a tree, and then I bring that consciousness into my body, then that becomes a dance experience for me. I’ve always said, ‘Dance is the breath made visible."
Anna Halprin, from 'Breath Made Visible'
Anna Halprin (1920–2021) was a seminal California choreographer whose work grew directly from the landscapes around her. Working on her open‑air dance deck on Mount Tamalpais, she developed a practice that treated nature as a partner in creation. Wind, light, terrain, and weather shaped the movement, inviting dancers to sense the environment as an active presence. Her approach helped define postmodern and site‑responsive dance, and her legacy continues to influence artists exploring the relationship between body, place, and ecological awareness.
Slide 1: Anna Halprin in Marin County, California, 1950s, photographed by Ron Partridge
Slide 2: Excerpt from the official trailer for Breath Made Visible, the first feature‑length film about Halprin from Argot Films
APPLY TO Performance Lab 001 — Mike Tyus X Diego Vega Solorza
This lab is for dancers who want to be inside the work, not just learning steps, but building something from the ground up.
For two weeks, we’ll share a process rooted in partnering, structure, and physical dialogue. We’ll question how bodies relate, how space holds us, and how ideas become form.
It’s rigorous, collaborative, and evolving.
You’ll be asked to show up fully.
We’ll train. We’ll make. We’ll perform.
July 27 – August 9, 2026
Apply at the link in bio.
Dancers featured @adam___ross@sage.beryl
Excerpt from “beaten soft” a work created and premiered at last years Performance Lab show. Created by @miketyus@luca_francesco_renzi@joyisabellabrown and shot by @tse_cheese
