Summer course of Subbody school has finished for two weekes.
From this week, every student performs one's last subbody butoh solo everyday.
It will be ten days succession of performances by ten students.
This photo flip is of the last Friday.
Each student searched one's weakest subbody which is folded at the edge
of the darkness of body.
It is hard work like a squeesing subbody from a almost empty tube.
Then slowly the deepest subbody which is necessary for life comes out.
Expect that ten video clips will be uploaded in these days.
We are continuing the weakened body practice, through physical practice of infinite segmenting rhizome technique and so on, and at the same time, we reserch the darkness of body through life upstream meditation, begger meditation fetus meditation, proto dream work, and so on.
If you find the inner neccesity to transform into weakened body through these inner travel, and continue practice of weakened body, you will get it someday.
But untill then, it is impossible to get it.
This is the reason why the weakened body technique has disappeared fron the world.
Yoko Ashikawa who was the main butoh dancer of last Hijikata's Butoh troup confessed recently, "I could not understand the death at all, because I was too young."
She was the only one person who was taught the weakend body technique from Hijikata directly, but even she could not get it. She confessed so honestly.
She did it at the performance of "Quiet House (1973)", but she
could not continue it, because of the absence of inner necessity.
It was so hard to meet the inner necessity for weakened body than the physical method for transforming into weakened body.
Hijikata did not teach it. He had just showed it.
We need to dig the deep tunnel in our darkness of body to meet the inner
necessity for weakened body.
This is the reason why we need to continue so hard meditation traning for dying down ego process.
We will begin the world work in next week to find the reason for abandoning the ego and self. Why do we need it?
It will be so harder than before, but I can feel the almost students get
ready for it, and has started to reseach it.
The time has come.
Segment the body into three pieces; leg, body, head.
Stand with a fragile feet which a few points of sole contact floor.
Bend knee slightly and release all tension.
A sway comes up from foot, through body, head, and sway down from head to foot.
At a point of each part of body the sway is warped by unknown power from another dimension.
[For example]
Upstream : 1. foot, 2. spine, 3. head
Down stream : 4. neck, 5. pelvis, 6. knee
Continue this warp sway walk until it becomes confortable meditation mode and the second nature.
1-2 Leg, torso, arm
Segment leg into three peices; pelvis-thigh, lower leg, and feet.
As the same as [1-1], wared sway passing through the three parts up and down.
Do it at the arm and torso.
1-3 Foot, hand, head
As the same as above, segment the foot, hand, and head into three.
Thw warped sway passing up and down through the three part.
1-4 Finger, toe, face
As the same as above, segment the finger, toe, and face into three, and practice the warped sway.
2. Infinite segmenting in six sway
Practice the warped sway walk with not only sway, but six kinds of movement; sway, shake, wave, shock, collapse, and die.
Each qualia is passing through the three parts of body with warped.
3. Infinite segmenting in eight channels
Practice the warped sway walk in each channel of the eight channels.
4. Infinite segmenting in your subbody butoh
Try to segment your choreography into the minimum piece with using infinite segmenting technique.
Practice this until you get the most dilicate transforming choreography by weakened body.
I investigated in "Weakend body" through Ash walk,
Hundred tanden weakened sway, A size walk, Bug walk,
and so on, for a long time.
Now gradually the process for transforming Weakend body
becomes transparent than before.
I will arange the essences of weakened body.
Life shivering
The weakened body is to be a body which can resonate
with the most proto shivering of life.
The daily body cannot listen in the subtle shivering of
life at all.
The shivering of life is so subtle that is not able to
catch by daily body which is bound by rough and large
stimulus of language informations.
To take off the bind of the human is the essense of
weakened body.
Then it become possible to cntact the life which is
swayig and shivering between life and death.
Taking off the "Human body"
The concept of human is the strongest bind for us.
When we are bound by the concept that we are human, and
stand by straight healthy two legs, we cannot contact
the life which is shivering and swaying subtlely
between death and life.
At first we need to take off the healthy straight legs
and stable flat feet.
Bend both knees slightly.
Inhibit stable flat feet, keep the fragile feet by only
one or two point of feet contact floor.
Your whole body will be swaying in different direction
unstablly.
Continue to train your body until this walk become the
second nature.
When you used to be this walk, it will be a standing
meditating state which your whole body is filled by
confortable swaying.
Then your body will be change to a subtle body which
can sense and taste the subtlest qualia flow
delicately.
Twisted sway
Some parts of body are moved in twisted sway by someone.
Not straight sway, but twisted sway, this is the important point, though too delicate.
I need to get this point for fifteen years.
Until then, by only the normal sway it could not transform my body to be warped body between this world and another world.
Carry the darkness of the world
When you become weakened body, You are not alone, but you dance with all unhappiness in the world.
They approach on your body from another dimension.
Not driving away, but offering your body, "Please use my body freely."
Hijikata named his butoh group; "Hangi-daitoh-kan".
"Hangi" means to become "the sacrifice body on the fire".
Look this world from dead world
Look to the living world from another world as a dead.
I call this “the look of near life”. It is opposite of “near death”.
When we become a dead body and look to the living wolrd as a dead, we can see that this living world is full of resonance of qualia; light, sound, wind, feeling and so on.
How full of brilliant resonance are here!
What special the life is!
We show another sight to the daily consensus world through "the look of near life".
It opens another art of human living.
This is the essence of butoh.
Please enjoy a video clip and photo flip of the third week in July course.
Twelve students created each subbody solo, and the other students entered
the subbody world with resonance freely.
With nobody's plan, without any choreografy, various scenes were unfolded one after another automatically.
The resonativity of students opened and deepened gradually every week.
The total performance time was over three hours. We edited it into six
munites.