Name: City of Dance | Stearns Wharf
Start: 2026-06-16T15:00:00
Location: Stearns Wharf

LA Dance Project

At Hollyhock House and Barnsdall Art Park, City of Dance meets a century‑old vision for art in public life. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for arts patron Aline Barnsdall, this UNESCO World Heritage Site was conceived as a radical experiment in community, creativity, and shared space.

Today, City of Dance brings movement back to Olive Hill, honoring the site’s history while inviting Angelenos to experience dance woven into its architecture.

City of Dance | Hollyhock House at Barnsdall Art Park

Barnsdall Art Park

The performance will take place at the Seaward Finger of the pier, extending toward the open Pacific at the far end of Stearns Wharf.

City of Dance | Stearns Wharf

Stearns Wharf

Hollywood Forever is one of Los Angeles’s most storied cultural landmarks. Founded in 1899 and home to generations of artists, filmmakers, and musicians, the site has evolved into a place where memory, history, and contemporary culture coexist. Today, it is known as much for its concerts, film screenings, and public gatherings as for its historic grounds.

City of Dance brings movement into a reflective landscape, inviting audiences to experience choreography shaped by the site’s architecture, history, and gardens at dusk.

City of Dance | Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

At Gloria Molina Grand Park, City of Dance meets one of Los Angeles’s most welcoming public spaces. Stretching from The Music Center to City Hall, the park was created as a place for gathering, celebration, and everyday connection. It was renamed in 2023 to honor Supervisor Gloria Molina, a groundbreaking public leader and advocate for cultural access.

City of Dance brings movement into this open landscape, inviting Angelenos to experience choreography shaped by the park’s fountains, terraces, and views across downtown.

City of Dance | Gloria Molina Grand Park

Gloria Molina Grand Park

City of Dance is an ambitious, multi‑day public arts initiative that reimagines public spaces across Los Angeles through free, site‑specific dance performances transforming iconic and unexpected locations into stages, inviting audiences to encounter movement as part of the city’s everyday rhythm and to experience their urban environment through community, choreography, and shared public space. LACMA's presentation of City of Dance will take place outdoors on the plaza level of the David Geffen Galleries, on and around Mariana Castillo Deball's monumental site-specific artwork Feathered Changes, connecting art, architecture, and visitors alike with the deep history of the site.