About
Zhenhao Wen
Performer, Researcher, Choreographer
I'm in the process of shaping my voice as an artist. I work at the intersection of embodied knowledge, practice-as-research, and performance studies.
Moving through the world, one body at a time
Zhenhao Wen
About
Performer, Researcher, Choreographer
I'm in the process of shaping my voice as an artist. I work at the intersection of embodied knowledge, practice-as-research, and performance studies.
Curriculum Vitae
Portfolio
Dance Film
Photography
Nov 2025
Production photography from Abe Kōbō's Friends (友達, 1967). A tragicomic drama in thirteen scenes about a family who forces their way into a man's apartment and refuses to leave.
Photography
Apr 2026
Production photography from Mark Branner's adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator at Kaimuki Christian School, 2026.
Artist Statement
I am not extraordinary. I don't shine the way people expect. I am clumsy sometimes, fragile most of the time. And yet I want to be seen. Don't you? Don't you also long for the moments when you feel small, or broken, or almost invisible, to still be remembered?
We are told only the perfect deserves to last, that only the flawless should be kept. But I don't believe that. I think our raw, unfinished, trembling selves also matter. They carry truth. They carry memory.
So this is not a monument. It is a doorway. A space to hold what usually slips away. A place where the incomplete, the unpolished, the too-much and not-enough can breathe.
Ongoing Inquiry
Seven weeks of solo improvisation in Honolulu, asking what dance knowledge lives in fatigue, hesitation, and the body that no archive keeps.
Three museums, one class of Hawaiian objects. A sixteen-minute documentary on how space, light, and language decide what a visitor can see.
A dance film for a disappearing art. An attempt to make more people look at Jingju before the form, and the bodies that carry it, disappear.
An upcoming project on the bodies that were trained into colonial shapes, and what it would take to move otherwise.
In the Studio
An introductory contemporary technique course for students with no prior dance training — an invitation into weight, breath, and the moving body.
Continuing the introductory contemporary technique journey — guiding first-time movers from foundational principles toward their own expressive vocabulary.
Personal Gallery
I have never studied photography in any formal way, but I have watched countless films, walked through museums, churches, and galleries. My sense of aesthetics belongs only to me, because the world I see is exactly as I see it.
If something here moved you,
or if you want to talk about
bodies, archives, and what
deserves to be remembered.
Dialogue
Leave a Trace
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