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| Sinking into the darkness of body | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The resonant smile and the Dead who called me to Cambodia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 February, 2010 A letter from Cambodia--Who moved me here? Now I am at Phnom Penn, Cambodia to visit my old friend. To travel far beyond three borders, and to meet an old friend is one of the biggest pleasure in life.It is the first purpose to visit Cambodia. And I had a promice to give workshop to young Cambodian people with inviting by a Cambodian friend, Rith who visited Subbody School Last year. But, not only these reasons, I felt that an unknown reason moved me to this country. At first I visited a market as usual when I visit a new contry, it was amazingly rich! So many kinds of sea food and vesitables and so on. The tradition of cocking is wonderful too with using various soi sources and fish sources. I felt it's one of richest one on the planet within I know. People's face is so calm. it is resonating with Khmer Bhudda images. I could released deeply to meet them. On the contrary, but, I have to visit a terrible place where is the memorial of the Killing field by Khmer Rouge leaded by Pol Pot. Three million poeple were killed near Phnom Penn. The Dead in my darkness of body resonate with the Dead in the killing field, and moved me here. The Deads are resonating beyond time-space. I felt that the Dead in The World War, Aushubitz, Vietnum, Afgan, Iraq and so on are resonating in the darkness of body. In human history, why these terrible things happens? I investigated in it for long years. Now slowly I can understand the essential reason. The thought of communism lacked the principle of life resonance. In my young age I was an activist anti-Imperalism, and anti-Stalinism. But also we didn't have the thought of life resonance. We killed each other a lot. The resonance by the Dead called me here, and they still asking us how can we stop the war, violence by the nation-state. They seemes suggest me, to think about the world change by the "Resocracy" deeper.
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The Transparency |
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What do I mean by the term of "transparency"? It is to be able to see and to show transparently what is happening in the darkness of body, between the consciousness, subconsciousness and body. For becoming transparent, we need to be released from any binds by assumptions, judgments, thinkings, preconceptions, common illusions. Not only them, but also we need to be released from our gender, nationality, age, knowledge, political and religious beleives, and so on. These are conditions for only the beginning of the long jurney to be transparent. |
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When I was young, I efforted to be transparent through learning various aspects. so that my eyes and my consciousness become transparent without any binds by any specific conditions which I was influenced by chance. I studied philosophy, literature, art, biology, physics, various kinds of thechniques of body work, dance, sports, various kinds of thought, religion, ideology, among the world beyond the border of western and eastern, so that my eyes and consciousness are able to catch the world transparently. Because I beleive that if I am bound by my own nationality, gender, cultural tradition, political and religious beleif, and so on, it is not transparent eyes at all. But I have to realize that it was not enough for that. The conscious effort couln't solve it, because my consciousness was still bound by unknown tendencies of unconsciousness. I noticed that the biggest obstacle is the consciousness itself which doesn't know the unconsciousness. But I didn't know how to communicate with my unconsciousness at all at that time. |
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| Entering the subconscious realm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I moved Himalaya and I strated investigation in the unconsciousness. I learned how to meditate through yoga, Bhuddism, Tao, and self hyponosis to enter the unconscious realm. The travell in the unconscious realm was so dangerous. Every moment I was attacked by unknown strong emotional emergencies. Especially, throuth the hard experiences of construction of the School in the Himalaya, I got noerosis by the culture gaps between India and Japan. Any assumption which I had in Japan was not work properly and disturbed my calmness. So many time I was attacked by unknown impulses to suicide or kill others. I researched how to solve it, but in the oriental tradition, I could not found any usefull advices, they told that only we will meet so many unknown monsters, strange happenings through meditation, and they said refuse them anyway to confirm the beleif of the God or Bhudda. It didn't work for me, because I didn't have any religious beleif. Also western medicine did not work, too. No docters have experienced in the unconscioue realm by themselves. Only C. G. Jung and Minddel's wrote their experiences kindly through the travel in unconscious realm helped me. C.G. Jung investigate in the Archetype which appers from collectice unconsciousness. He wrote of so many kinds of archtypes; the shadow, Anima, animus, trickstar, boy, girl, great mother, old wise man, animal and so on. He described that we will meet many types of archtypes, they will attack us, but not being bound by them. He wrote so many concrete happenings, it helped me a lot. Mindell also wrote a book; "Shaman's body" which is full of dangers and the important points which we have to be aware. It was depend on Jung and Minddel which I could survive through the travell in the unconscious realm by alone. |
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Why do we need to be transparent? I don't know why? I can just show my process as transparent as possible. Why did I want to enter the unconscious realm, despite of the dangers. Because I have felt so many opaque unknown tendencies exsisted in my dakness of body, and they controled my behaviors from the young ages. ( Opaque is the oppsite of transparency.) When I fall in love, or when I change my behavior pattern, I felt that not me, but someone who is unknown for me moved me. What is this? It's invisible, but living in the darkness of body. I hated the opaqueness. The biggest opaque mystery which I met was about creation of my dance. It was twelve years ago. When I tryed to research in my body by alone as usual, one day, suddenly a fifteen minutes dance came out with a exact choreograph. But I have no memory and no record which I created it. I had a custom to write down the findings through the reseach in my body everyday. There were many records of reseach of the other day's around the period, but there was no record at all of the day when it came out. Who created this piece of dance? This became the biggest question for me, after the experience. This piece was so strange one. So many unknown creatures and hidden characters came out one by one. The mustery was not only creation, but also after then suddenly someone moved me to start traveling to perform this piece. I named it "Infectious Fever". I traveled many countries for three years with performing the piece and giving workshops. Fortunately I had many dancing friends and supporters through a world creators network; "Dancing Commune" which I organized several years before. At that time I organized a lot of collaborations and workshops of my friends in Japan, and next was my turn to perform the solo or collaborations with my friends, and give workshor at my firend's countries. It wan not me but someone who decide the long travel. An unknown being moved me. Who are you? After three years traveling, suddenly someone had stoped the travel, and move to Himalaya. I needed a practice space to continue the reseach and creation. At first I build it for me. I started the research at Himalaya, to stop consciousness and enter the darkness of body, during the reseach slowly I could meet the real creator of the piece. It was my subconsciousness, but not only subconsciousness. The subconsciusness and body is oneness in the subconscious realm. I named it "subbody". I stopped to use the term; "unconscoiousness". Because unconsciousness implicits the meaning that we cannot contact it at all, for daily mind it's true, but for meditative mind it's not true, we can contact with it through becoming subbody. Then I use the terms; "subconsciousness" and "subbody". Subbody was a real creator of my peice. It has completely another logic from daily body. It is streaming and changing always among mauti-dimansions. Still now I continue the reseach in my body and support other person's subbody process as a midwife. My work is to listen in the subtle breath of student's subbody which is going to coming out from the darkness of body. It is a fetus of subbody. I can just facilitate the birth of them safely. I need to throw away my ego, and self to be a midwife. Otherwise I miss to catch the subtle signal of their birth. There are so complicate processes of subbody. Sometimes they are coming out as a strange creature, which was folded in their bodies as a life memories. We call it "Proto body". Sometimes they are coming out as a hidden character who was hidden in the darkness of body. We call it "Hidden body". Another time they are coiming out with other's spirit. In my first peice, some of subbodies are which was possessed by my dead friends. I just gave my body them to use freely. We call it "Possessed body".Sometimes they are coming out as a group. We call it "Cobody". Cobody is resonating subbodies. In the darkness of body, there are no borders between me and you, self and others, individual and group. There are so many variations of subbody depend on the person. We need to learn the nature and characteristic of each type of subbody. But these divisions are just for explanation and leraning for beginners, actually there are no borders among each type of subbody and cobody. they are just streaming and changing flexiblly in the non-dual and multi-dimensional realm. That's why we need to study infinitely to see the process transparently as a midwife of subbody. And in the subbody realm, there are no difference between to be a transparent body and to open transparent eyes to the process. to be continued... |
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| 28 January, 2010 "Resonate with the Death"/ Pit Pit send us pictures of his recent performances in Swizerland and art works by a PDF file. ![]() "Resonate with the Death" Performance at St Jacob Church, Zurich November 1, 2009 Click here to view PDF file(1.8MB) |
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28 January, 2010 |
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28 January, 2010 I
would like to share with you my last few months, my thinkings, my revelations
and insights and in general I will try to put light in some things that I don’t
know why they are big truths without argument, just by living life dancing nine
months in this school. A
western mentality. During
the first semester I had many struggles which still now I have to work on them
to become more transparent during my dance. I had to change my way of being on
scene. The main problems were how to stop thinking, how to calm down my ego,
how to throw out my theater habits, how to release from the tension of showing
something to others, how to release from my judgment about what is butoh, the
judgment with the rest of students, how to learn deeply resonating with others,
how to keep some magic moments with the outside and the inside in my body for
creation, how to understand the instructions from Lee... Many
work to do which apparently seemed impossible made me many struggles. So,
during the first semester I couldn't solve at all this problems. But after
coming back from holidays I realize that not me, my body was becoming friend of
some movements, also I could control more my body, and listen more subtle. Some
body borders (deep sensations, movements, hidden parts...) were crossed, and
this give me the force to continue. This was a deeply living revelation for me. So,
next step was how to become more transparent during the dancing. For me, become
transparent, means to find real movements, necessary movements which my life is
asking deeply, overcome more borders, make the invisible imaginary more
visible, be moved, just be without intension or tensions, become empty, go out
from my human actual condition (maybe become another kind of human which could
be in another moment in the universal history). Many interpretations or ways to
understand or put some intuition using words to a living experience. Then,
suddenly, I don't know how and why, I started to remember the dance and the
self-research of Aska (a student from first semester) during my meditations in
movements her subbody spirit visit me. It was guiding me in many ways: the best
way for to follow the instructions, the way to follow my most necessary
tendency becoming oneness with my mind and body (with all, I mean also with my
ego, thinking and judgment behind my ears). I started also to play with the
state of my mind when my body is between falling down and not, going deep on
the relation with the gravity, when my body is very tired or sleepy, and with
spontaneous movements. To follow Lee's instructions, I understand that sometimes they are not
completely instructions as we understand like students and a teacher in
modern conception. At one point of this nine months process, for me they
have to be understand not by thinking, by body, life and real necessities.
This means that sometimes I didn't hear them, sometimes they became good
suggestions to explore, sometimes not, sometimes I developed my own suggestions
and sometimes I just resonate with his voice or with his body. The first
step is to listen to my body and my life, that means my body condition
(which is able to change at any moment by the power of the imagination
forces) and asking myself what I want to do the most (a response which
comes without the language channel). My teachers were the rest of the students,
a monkey in the swimming pool, a suggestion from Lee, a plant swaying by
the wind, an empty space, an object, an insect, the himalaya mountain,
a movement to develop, an state of mind, a memory, an imaginary, an emotion...Infinite. Like
this I open new doors to follow the condition of transparency. A
necessary dance. Most of Fridays I had another struggle: why I have to perform today? Why
the audience is there and I'm here in this part of the stage? I tried many
things to release from this struggle which makes me not find the necessity
of dancing in these precise moments and not just being during dancing.
So I tried many things. I said once to Lee: today I don't perform. And
I taste this sensation of not performing. Another day my performance was
based just to walk in the garden, feel the audience, the sun, the grass
and the wind, the mountains and the spirits around and don't react at all.
Like this experiences and meditations with the struggles I could slowly
release from the pressure of perform and I could find that the moment of
perform is a gift, a precious opportunity to share a magic moment with
the world. What
is dance? These
words came to me as a big revelation one day after a Friday performance. If
dance is life, why I just have the necessity of dancing and being moved during
the school timing? One day I was in my room washing dishes with music. Suddenly
I realize that my body was making a
daily action but also at same time I was moved by music like an inner
necessary instinct. A big non-logic
truth appeared to me: there exists a subtle delicate balance between what's my
body asking for and an inner instinct of being moved by anything (sound, imaginary, character,
wind, emotion...). That Friday, I put music, I opened all channels and I didn't
put a choreography on stage or something.. Like this everything could happen in
any moment without prevention. Starting from these inner instinct of being
moved by sound, a very rich and fresh experiment appeared. Because I surprised
myself in a lot of moments, the audience was also surprised, I could share the unexpectedness. My concept
of dance completely change after this experience. Now there can be a direct connection between life and
dance. Dance as a way of life, not as an attitude, not as a job, not as a
definition or a conception of ourselves as dancers, not as a culture, not as a
classification of dances. Another door is open to give light about the question
of what is dance. After the integration of
this conception, my daily life started to sway from outside between a
healthy madness and chaos because I could dance in every moment everything. The
Possessed body. When
we work about the possessed body, another door to explore was opened for me. We
study a little of shamanism. We dance and try with music, being possessed. A
revelation for me was that we could easily enter in the non-dual world by the
non controlling movements or states of mind, freaking out, releasing from
everything. A very dangerous work, because by this way we can really go deep
without controlling or taking distance from things that can hurt us. But we
were already trained for this. So it was for me another step to enter in the
non-dual world without controlling but being conscious that I'm not
controlling, be friend with these state without scares. The
Creation One of the most big struggle for me. I couldn't find the necessity of creation, nothing deeply to dance and share. My dance already became a dance from improvisation and transparency, so outside it was very rich for me because many stimulations and qualia appeared. But now I had to keep something, and I didn't wanted to lose the real, necessary movements and the transparency. I started to think too much and that's why a big dualism appeared to me: improvisation against choreography. This problem also appeared to me during the creation of the first semester which I couldn't solve. That's why my first experiment was completely a choreography of precise movements and states which didn't give me a non-logic sense at all. Now,
when I improvised I couldn't keep the interesting moments from the improvisation and when
I danced with a choreography, nothing happened to me and it was a fake
dance. But I didn't give up. There must be a way. And the facilities and
relaxing situation in the school with just three students were perfect
to work on it. For five weeks of creation process, only last two weeks
I could find a way. In a position of rolling on the ground I improvised,
in a character I improvised, with a big cloth and a hat I improvised. Things
that I don't know why I want to work on it. By dancing it many times I
realized that there were patterns that repeated by an unknown necessity.
But the last point was how to find the connections and the ending, like
a total whole piece. I tried many times by thinking, making different structures.
Many insecurities appeared. Then Chiara told me one day to just dance it
many times without planning parts and the responses will come. Like this
I could paste many parts. Finally Lee suggested me to dance all parts and
subbodies and struggles and spontaneous movements at same time with a crazy
music, as I did in one of the parts before, at the ending. Like this a
deep necessity came for ending of my last performance. Dancing it many
times and leaving spaces for necessary or spontaneous movements. A choreography
which allows the improvisation it becomes something that is not completely
an improvisation and not completely a choreography. So now I realize that I create something, a fetus of my own dance style
which is open to be develop in everything and in every place, something
from where I can polish and cut and add. For example the cloth that I'm
using I already painted and give it life as a friend of my dance, as a
spirit which is guiding me. Like this I find a process of creation which
has just start and I hope I would be able to continue for the next uncertain
future. I hope to continue learning from others, exploring different parts
of my body, connections between body-mind-outside, discovering and dancing
while living. Because now for me dance is life and this dance can be everything
of human and not human, this world and other worlds, movement and stillness,
daily life, visible and invisible, logic and non-logic, language and silence. This
is the method of the non-method in which slowly you can overcome your own
struggles and create your own dance far away from conceptions and
classifications. With your own effort which results more pleasant. To release
from I want to do this or become like this and just find the responses from
listening our lives throw our bodies. For me this and the other revelations
above are the most rich gifts that I take after nine months in this school.
Thank you Lee also for your big effort trying to manage all subbodies from all
students through your dreams every night and your dedication. Giving and
creating thousands of suggestions to help us, becoming flexible as a real
guide, becoming a source of knowledge in all the ways, supporting everyday our
training and dance and maintain the school with passion and love. Hope
to meet next year in the first edition of the Himalaya Butoh Festival, Xavi |
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A School Brochure has made up! About the school Facilities About the teacher About BUTOH About SUBBODY mwthod Location Crick below to view the Brochre Subbody butoh School Himalaya pdf(18.1MB) |
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Let's fill the world with life resonance Resonet World Resonance Work Guide 2010 |
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| Rhzome Lee Subbody school Himalaya is accepting a few more students for 2010 There are some sudden cancellations in 2010 Subbody School. It's chance for waiting persons! Please apply soon! For more Info. View "School Guide 2010" |
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Rhzome Lee![]() Intensive Workshop /Summer 12 July-6 August ,2010 (Fixed) One month course Subbody Butho School Ten fixed members Fee: 300US$ Application: subbody@gmail.com |
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Intensive Workshop /Summer 2 9 August-3 September, 2010 (Not fixed yet, depend on Indian visa rule change) One month course Subbody Butho School Ten fixed members Fee: 300US$ Application: subbody@gmail.com |
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Body Resonance Workshop /Autumn 11 October-5 November, 2010 (The date is not fixed yet, depend on Indian visa rule change. It is connected with Butoh Festival) One month course Subbody Butoh School and in the Nature Ten fixed members Fee: 300US$ Application: subbody@gmail.com |
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| Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sara, Ricardo, Katherine, Xavi, Gorka, and Asuka ![]() ![]() Now six old students are working together in Barcelona. Sara and Ricardo's workshop is full right now, but will open new workshop in Granada, Spain Sara informed us about her and Ricardo training in Barcelona. It has 13 members and full right now. Katherine, Xavi, Gorka join in it. And they will open two weeks workshops in Granada soon. Please wait for the next news. Also Yesterday, Asuka from Switzerland joined in it. Now it's like a cobody family! If you like to join in Granada workshop, contact Sara. Sara Pons: retopagiga[at]hotmail.com (Change [at] into @) |
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| Rocio International Butoh Festival
HArU Proyect: Dance and Media At the Congress Palace www.ibizacongress.com
Also you can see HArU Performance in wabiza.webs.com
Rocio who will be a student of 2012 informed us about her project in Spain.Some old students will join in the festival. If you feel interst in the festival, please contact Rocio. Rocio: rociowabiza[at]gmail.com (Change [at] into @) |
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Pit.Meyer Open Butoh Training in Basel When: Every Tuesday P.M. 1:00-4:00 Where: Werkraum Warteck PP, Burgweg 7-15, 4058 Basel. Pit.Meyer: godsend[at]gmx.ch (Change [at] into @) |
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Ozerk Sonat Pamir![]() Breath Body Workshop Place: CATI Studio, Istanbul Date: 12 February Friday- 19:00-22:00 13 February Saturday- 10:00-16:00 14 February Sunday- 10:00-16:00 Fee: Cati Members- 40TL Other attendants- 80TL For further questions you can write to ozerkpamir[at]yahoo. com (Change [at] to @) |
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| Weekly class with Ozerk Sonat Pamir Each saturday a.m.10:00-p.m.13:00 Place: Cati Studio (www.catidans.org), Istanbul, Turkey |
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Kats.D![]() Subbody Butoh Workshop When: Thursday 6:00-9:00pm February 4, 11, 18, 25 March 4, 11 Where: Fallout Urban Art Center Studio, 2601 2nd Avenue South, Minneapolis Fee: $200 To register, please write a check payable to Kats D Fukasawa and mail to 5015 14th Avenue South, Minneapolis Minnesota 55417. Full payment required to register. For more information about workshop, please contact Kats D Fukasawa at KatsD.Subbody@gmail.com or 612-703-7501. |
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International Butoh Festival Himalaya #1 |
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15 November - 30 November, 2010 (The date is not fixed yet, depend on Indian visa rule change) At Subbody Hall, Cobody theater , Dharamsala, India Butoh performances, Resonance workshops, Experimental exchange meeting etc. The details will be informed later |
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