LADP PRESENTS: OPEN REHEARSAL | WALL-BODY WITH SHU KINOUCHI
2245.
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021
Saturday, May 2, 2026 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm
PRICE:
Free with RSVP
Join us at L.A. Dance Project on May 2 for an open rehearsal of WALL—BODY, a new interdisciplinary performance created by choreographer Shu Kinouchi in collaboration with architect Hiroshi Kaneko. Premiering May 16, 2026, WALL—BODY is an 80‑minute, exhibition‑style solo work that invites audiences to experience choreography as it unfolds within a shifting architectural landscape.
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.
WALL—BODY was developed and produced by L.A. Dance Project through its programming arm, LADP Presents, with funding from Charlene Achki‑Repko, Susan Baumgarten, Robert Braun & Joan Friedman, Susan Friedman, Jane Jelenko, Michael & Aliza Lesser, David Totheroh, and Sue Tsao.