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A site specific promenade performance created in collaboration with renowned visual artist Shinji Ohmaki and award winning sound artist evala. Living Body Museum celebrates 30 years of Arakawa and Madeline Gins’ Site of Reversible Destiny - Yoro Park.
In 2025, the Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park (Japan) marked a major milestone as it celebrated its 30th anniversary. Between October and November 2025, the park presented Reversible Destiny NOW! Living Body Museum in Yoro, a vibrant programme of installations, performances, and workshops that expands upon the radical ideas of the park's architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Neon Dance were invited to create a special collaborative performance work with renowned artists Shinji Ohmaki and evala. The site specific promenade work featuring 5 world class dance artists premiered on the 1st November 2025 and included 3 daytime events and 4 sold out evening performances.
Since its opening in 1995, the Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park continues to challenge visitors’ perceptions through its undulating terrain and disorienting structures, inviting all who enter to explore new possibilities of the body.
“ Living Body Museum in Yoro is a work that considers the Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park active and alive; a work that takes shape through a series of contingent encounters, relations, directions, and forces. Consider the site, created by Arakawa and Madeline Gins, a work where all bodies, sounds, and objects housed within it, and the atmosphere (all around us but also running through us; momentarily enveloped in Shinji Ohmaki’s mirror balloons, funnelled through nooks and crannies) all conspirators in this game. evala’s sound world prompts the body to engage on a visceral level and with other bodies encountered along the way. How can we unfold together, where does one end and another begin?”
— Adrienne Hart, Artistic Director, Neon Dance
Living Body Museum
by Neon Dance, evala and
Shinji Ohmaki
Live performance concept and direction | Adrienne Hart
Sound design | evala
Sculpture and lighting design | Shinji Ohmaki
Choreography | Adrienne Hart in collaboration with Aoi Nakamura, Dickson Mbi, Fukiko Takase, Manon Parent, Moo Kim
Performers | Aoi Nakamura, Dickson Mbi, Fukiko Takase, Manon Parent, Moo Kim
Costume | Mikio Sakabe
Mirror mask | Ana Rajcevic
Project Management | Maeve O’Neill
Funded and supported by | Reversible Destiny Foundation, Arakawa and Gins Tokyo Office, The Great British Sasakawa Foundation, Arts Council England
