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29 May, 2008
Listen to the stone
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There is the Chetru Stone Park near Dharamsala.
The big stones are fallen down from Himalaya long time ago.
Today we tried to listen to the stone.
Students found a favourite stone, and aproached slowly with calming down
as quiet as stone.
Then asked to the stone, "Where are you from?"
Stone answered," From the top of Himalaya. We were fallen down five
millions ago when wheather changed to warm, the big ice lake was melted
and broken. "
"And before then?"
"I was under the Indian ocian. 50millions years ago the India Semi
Continent was started sikning down under the Eurasian Continent. before
then I was under the ocian for a long time."
"Do you know me?"
"Yes, I know you well. You were so tiny at that time, you were just
floating in the ocian without thinking and talking."
So, stones are long neibours for our life from the very biginning of the
life.
Students tried to calm down as same as stone and integrated their subbodies.
We showed the subbody dance to the stones.
Many children near the park gathered and watched and laughed with stones.
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28 May, 2008
Nessecity of movement
Students are going to integrate whole subbodies which they found in these
three months investigation of darkness of body into a butoh piece.
When we create a piece, the most important thing is the nessecity of dancing
for life.
How can we get it?
It is possible to find a nessecity "reverse twist" movement from
one's own habits, blocks which bind oneself.
"Reverse twist" is the natural response of life when life is
twisted by outer strenth before it becomes distortion. All lives have this
ability as the instinct naturally in the nature, only our human forget
it.
Our lives are twisted by social strenth to a modern human shape with intelgence
persona face and mannered behabior. It binds us, but we don't notice about
the bind, because the distortion is the symmetry shape. We misunderstand
it as the beauty, until the twisted conditions of life become strong blocks
and grow up to somatic syndrome, mental disease and sickness.
But when we open proto vitality, we can heal by ourselves at the beggining
of the twisted condition.
What is creation for life?
Creation is the nessesary "reverse twist" movement for life.
Our life has a possibility to overcome any twisted condition by "reverse
twist". It is the self cure ability.
Some small twisted condition is easy to cure by tiny reverse twist, but
we need unique invention to cure the biggest twisted condition. This nessesary
movements become one's own creation.
It is subbody butoh dance.
To create it by all of the neccesity movements which come out from the
drakness of body, it is the essense. It is not self expression which our
self plans and produces, but it is the very neccesity invention for life.
Today students started to integrate their own subbodies which already have
met
in these three months, with finding the nessecity of movement which release
themselves from their own habits, thinking habits, bound behabior pattern,
and many kinds of blocks.
Next week is the last week for three months students, they will show their
own subbody piece and cobody part at the favorite place in Dharamsala one
by one in each day from Monday to Friday.
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26 May, 2008
What is not possible to be taken by picture and video
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Weakened body is not possible to take picture by steal camera and video
camera.
The strong dance whose essense is shape in three dimensions is able to
take picture.
For them it is Ok to show shape or movement in three dimensions.
But, the essense of weakened body is the subtlest life resonance.
It is not physical vibrations.
It is just what life is resonating with everything.
Camera and daily mind which forgets life resonance can not recognize it.
Life resonance is happening in the subtle string realm, it is not caught
by strong electlic
signal and light.
Also consciousness cannot cotch it.
When we calm down the consciousness and we become transparent body/mind,
we can catch it.
If you don't want to beleive such a thing, you don't need to see subbody
butoh at all.
There are so many joyfull physical dance and theaters.
You can enjoy them.
When we reduce joyfull dance, we can contact the secret of what is life,
what is death.
Life is neither physical thing nor mental thing.
It is just subtle resonance vibrating between life and death.
We have uploaded some videos, with clear recognition that weakened bodies
cannot catch by
camera.
It will be seen only clumsy shaking of bodies.
It was passed only three months when we started pracitice of weakened body.
These videos are just experiments how students will change in a coming
months with overcoming
the inexperienced technique.
What is life resonance?
How can we share it transparently?
How much sentient can we transform?
These unknown experiments will be investigated in.
Weakened body is not possible to take picture by steal camera and video
camera.
The strong dance whose essense is shape in three dimensions is able to
take picture.
For them it is Ok to show shape or movement in three dimensions.
But, the essense of weakened body is the subtlest life resonance.
It is not physical vibrations.
It is just what life is resonating with everything.
Camera and daily mind which forgets life resonance can not recognize it.
Life resonance is happening in the subtle string realm, it is not caught
by strong electlic
signal and light.
Also consciousness cannot cotch it.
When we calm down the consciousness and we become transparent body/mind,
we can catch it.
If you don't want to beleive such a thing, you don't need to see subbody
butoh at all.
There are so many joyfull physical dance and theaters.
You can enjoy them.
When we reduce joyfull dance, we can contact the secret of what is life,
what is death.
Life is neither physical thing nor mental thing.
It is just subtle resonance vibrating between life and death.
We have uploaded some videos, with clear recognition that weakened bodies
cannot catch by camera.
It will be seen only clumsy shaking of bodies.
It was passed only three months when we started pracitice of weakened body.
These videos are just experiments how students will change in a coming
months with overcoming the inexperienced technique.
What is life resonance?
How can we share it transparently?
How much sentient can we transform?
These unknown experiments will be investigated in.
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24 May, 2008
Subtle resonance theater
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What will happen when a group of weakened bodies start improvisation?
The subbody cobody theater at the last weekend became a "Subtle resonance
theater".
Weakened bodies are moved by only subtle resonance among them.
It is the very new scene which I have never seen before in Japan and the
world.
It may be the first time what a group of weakened bodies appeared at the
same time, and also what they started resonate together by subtle resonance.
I felt so impressed to encounter an unexpected changing of scenes yesterday.
I cannot explain by words what happened, but I received so novel impressions
to encounter unexpected changing of scenes yesterday.
They were moved not by ego and consciousness but moved by subtle resonance
among weakened bodies.
The group of weakened bodies was not bound by nationalistic fanaticism.
It is just outdated fenomena which is bound by archetype of group.
What will happen among our subtle life reonance, when we will be released
from ego and arvhetypes?
We investigate in completely novel experiment like this.
It is going to appear a translucent shape.
It is felt by people who encountered the scene in realtime and in real
space.
It is impossible to take pictures and videos, also difficult to explain
by words.
Today, a woman visited me, and she said,
" I saw the performance yesterday, and I was impressed deeply. I felt
I saw a jewel.
I hope to join this school. Is it possible? "
I answered, " Thank you, but sorry, this year is full. Please try
next year. Though the minimum term will be changed to six months. "
She said, "It is fine. I will join in next year for half year. Here
is so nice."
She is from Canada, she is creating a theater for children in Chennai,
India.
This is a vivid response to what happened yeasterday here.
I did not expected at all that it is affectable to people, but it seemed
to have moved a person at least.
It may be possible to beleive the subtle life resonance.
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20 May, 2008
Metamorphose from a hidden joint
Our daily bodies have forgotten so many fanctions.
Tail is no longer used for the devolution, but we have still the nerve
around the tail.
When we imagine the image of the tail in a movementm it help us so much.
Sternoclavicular joints (the joint between chest bone and collor bone),
and sacroiliac joints (sacrum and pelvis) are also forgotten joints.
Today, we tryed to move these hidden joints very slowly into three dimensional
directions and taste the qualia.
Through these experiences we can meet our hidden characters and hidden
bodies.
Sternoclavicular joint
Move both collarbones forward. The heart fades just a little.
Move them even forward, the heart is closed and has been excruciating.
The constelation of the skeleton is changing, introverted self comes out.
Close the chest in addition. We can meet the stony-self who closed to the
outside world.
Move both colorbones backword. The extroverted character is coming out.
Move them upward. We can remember when we fail something we shrug one's
shoulder.
Move more and our neck disappear like a tortoise shrinked his head.
Move both collarbone down to the bottom. You become long neck. Move neck
with becoming birds and horses.
Move both colorbones broading out to the clavicle.
Sternoclavicular joint is spreading like a free bird chest.
Move both collarbones in a narrow. Sternoclavicular joint is fixed.
Move more, then chest closed like a fish and snake which doesn't have chest.
Swim just like a fish with only spine work.
Sacroiliac joint
Move both pelvis forward. Close to the pelvis and chest. The basic constelaton
of skeleton changes.
You may metamorphose as a prudent character like an armadillo.
Move both pelvis backward. Sternoclavicular joint also spread to a diplomatic,
an arrogant personality comes out.
Move the top of both pelvis closer. Knee becomes X leg, Chest also closed,
Twist the arm to the limit.
You meet a strange character who was folded in the darkness of body.
Move the bottom of pelvis closer. At the top of the pelvis is spread to
a pregnant mother's position, you can experience the body feeling of pregnance.
Walk with taking care of the baby. You can know what is the mother a little
something.
Separate both pelvis away from the sacrum. When the distance between the
pelvis become maximum , your pelvis become the dilivery position.
Remember the exoerience which everybody has been experienced at once.
Move both pelvis close to the sacrum. Pelvis is fixed.
And even closer to the pelvis your body become a snake or fish.
Swim with using only spine just like a snake and fish swimming.
Hidden joints of the hands and feet
Similarly, move the hidden joints of the hands and feet slowly with a three-dimensional
direction.
Center/edge change: Move from the center of the body( Sternoclavicular,
sacroiliac), and from the edge of the body; from tip of a finger, toe.
Switch from center to edge, and riverse.
Bottom/top change: Wave coming up from the bottom of body like a plant,
and move from the top of head like an animal. Switch from bottom wave to
top wave, top wave to bottom wave.
Jaw joint and hidden eye movement
Move jaw joint three-dimensional directions, and move eyes in an oblique
direction.
You can meet various hidden characters depending on the degree of twisting.
Jocular self, full of ideas, cunning personality, curious character, and
so on.
When you meet a stranger, slowly become a friend.
Share the hidden subbodies each together, after the self-searching.
Become each hidden bodies and taste it from inside, it will become nvel
experiences.
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16 May, 2008
Unknown possibility of weakened body
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This year, we continue to brcome weakened body.
It takes so long time, we work slowly, slowly.
But on the way, I could feel a novel possibility of weakened body which
we haven't known until now.
It is a possibility of subtler resonance among weakened body.
Among normal bodies, each body has prety strong ego or self.
Ego and self cannot resonate deeply.
When we throw away our ego and self, a possibility of novel subtler resonance
among lives appears.
I noticed this at the first time.
This month, we will try to explore this possibility.
It has so deep possibility to contact with life.
There are so fruitful veins are hidden in the tunnel for weakened body.
We just start to investigate in it.
This week is the first week of May course with added two new students.
We continued to practice of "A size walk" and weakened cobody.
So many novel themes were coming out through these process.
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15 May, 2008
The birth point of dance
I don't know why, but in this month, so deep taste subbodies came out from
students day by day.
What is the reason?
The contents of class is almost same as usual, but some subtle changes
were accured.
One of them is to start from the most subtle sway.
In the practice of ash walk and a size walk, students tryed to listen to
what each joint and cavity are moved by connected spider's thread to the
different directions.
Another subtle changing point is to catch a resonance between outer phyiscal
movement and constelaton of inner qualia.
We have pracitced that each part of body is moved into different directions
everyday.
In this practice, some movement are nothing felt, but a specific movement
is felt something connected to the depth of life.
When we catch the resonace between specific physical movement and inner
constelation, and they become oneness, it is the birth of original dance.
We can follow it, amplify it, until it grows up to the subbody movement.
This resonance feeling is so subtle, but we can chatch it, if we calm down
daily mind.
I emphasised this in paticular and clearly in this month than before.
Then it became more clearly for students what should they search in the
darkness of body. And the only true subbody movmeents came out, instead
of the fake movement which is planed by consciousness.
It was so subtle change but the outcome was big change.
For me, in my intention, I always tell so, but actually I could not tell
it clearly until now.
It was my inner blind spot.
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11 May, 2008
Toward the invisible realm
The weakened body is not possible to be taken picture by camera.
It's essense is the subtle life resonance. But camera is too rough to chatch
it.
The life resonance is trillion trillion trillion times subtler than electlic
signal.
It is destiny of weakened body. Including this immposibility we upload
weakened body's
videos and pictures.
And on the top of that, now is the just beginning of the birth of weakened
bodies.
We wiil grow up them through the years. Especially, the subtle resonance
among weakened
subbodies will be facilitated. It may realize a weakened cobody theater,
this must be
the first chalenge for butoh, I have neither seen nor done before.
It is much more hardly to be caught by picture, but we have to accept this
destiny of
butoh.
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9 May, 2008
Weakened body theater
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Subbody cobody theater shifted by weakend bodies.
All students gather together by each weakened body.
They belong in each different dimension.
If somebody is going to contact another body, they cannot contact each
other, because they belong differnet dimension.
They are just hovering between life and death, this dimension and another
dimension.
Sometimes they find thier bodies walking in front of them, or they may
be previous existense.
Sometimes they notice that they are standing by side.
Sometimes they resonate to melt down or fade up.
Water vase on the top.
Razor blades under the soles.
Glass ball eyes.
Each joint and cavity is hanged by spider's thread.
Forest at the deep teeth.
Bodies delay behind the hopes.
Legs labyrinth.
Delusions which have deep-rooted.
Wishes which belong nowhere.
Desires which have lost distinations.
Everything is hovering between death and life, between this world and different
dimensions.
Eveybody has lost ego, self, and body, and forget that we are human.
Through the weakened body theater, we can show the paradox that the weakest
body can open the storongest resonance ability.
Though it is pity that the weakened bodies are unable to be caught by camera
at all.
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7 May, 2008
The moment when an unique dance is created
When and how can we create the dance?
It is so clear for myself, but I could not say by words for a long years.
Last night I dreamt a dream, in the dream I could share the moment with
students.
Something are communicated without words.
After waking up, I tryed to discribe it by the words.
When we practice in various physical movements, there is a moment when
suddenly something moves in thedarkness of body.
If I discribe it by words, at that moment a constelation of inner qualia
are resonated with a specific physical movement, and vibrated together.
Now we can share the word of costelation among school, then this communicaton
become possible.
At that moment the life is moved strongly and spreaded.
A physical movement and inner life vibration become oneness, and crystalize
as a dance.
This is the moment when a dance is born.
Today we continued the "A size walk", and during the practice,
students found a moment when a physical movement and inner shift of constelation
become oneness.
When we got the moment, it becomes a real unique dance.
Now we can share the moment everyday.
It is so immpressive experience, and we are moved each other deeply.
Even Hijikata could not do like this. He could only choreograph the others
by his choreography. Now everybody can create one's own butoh dance.
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5 May, 2008
A size walk
This week we try to walking practice.
There are so many way of walking in butoh, but the essense of butoh walk
is to transform different dimension, not to transfer the pyisical place.
Today we started from "A size walk" which is one of the most
basic butoh walk, with following the method which Yoko Ashikawa gave at
workshop in 1989, recorded by Kayo Mikami.
1. Walk with becoming a fixed size body.
2. Not walking, but shifting body between heaven and the earth.
3. Eyes become glass ball eyes, open the third eye between the eyeblows.
4. The speed which the scenes are reflected on your glass ball eyes is
quicker than the speed which you see the scenes.
5 Put the razor blades under the soles.
6. Carry a water vase on the top of the head.
7. All joints are hanged by spider's thread.
8. A wish to walk goes ahead, the shape of body follow it from behind.
9. The traces of walk are hanged in front of you and behind.
3. Eyes become glass ball eyes, open the third eye between the eyeblows.
5 Put the razor blades under the soles.
6. Carry a water vase on the top of the head.
10. A forest at the deep teeth. Spider's threads in the empty cavity of
body.
11. Already the eyes have stopped to see, the legs have stopped to walk.
Your being itself become walking eyes, and walking legs.
12. The walking demands the discontinuity of walk, and
suggests an expanse of space.
1. Walk with becoming a fixed size body.
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2 May, 2008
Weakened qualia which cannot be shot by picture
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Subbody cobody theater April 3rd week has finished.
Each students found their own space arround school, and choreographed.
This week we tryed to listen in subtler qualia than before.
These thing was not shot by picture, because too subtle difference.
But for butoh, these subtle difference is the most important.
It can be sensed by only sentient life through resonance.
Camera cannot resonate, this is the reason of the absolute difference between
live performance and video clip or camera shot.
Also in cobody theater we tryed to be weakened cobody. This is the new
experiment.
How is it possible to dance group improvisation by weakened bodies?
We will deepen this experiment through this year.
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1 May, 2008
Become the weakest qualia
Through life upstream meditation, we can feel the qualia of origin life.
The origin life which was born four billions years before was unable to
move at all. It was just living with resonating with environment.
When we become the origin life, we ca ntaste the weakest qualia in the
world.
They are moved by outside powers, wave, wind, gravity, thunder, and so
on.
Why the qualia of unnable to move, and limited to move, being moved was
so deep for us?
Because these weakest qualia are the most familiar for our life. Our life
was only one celled creature the first three billions years in the history
of life.
They could not move at all or could move but a little. Our life are mostly
moved by environment for a long time.
When we become these weakest qualia, the most biggest miracle what we can
resonate with everything happens. Strong qualia cannot resonate with weak
qualia. Only weakest qualia can resonate with everything. The weakest qualia
has the strongest ability of resonance.
To taste this paradox is hard, because our ego does not want to be weak.
This is one of the biggest edge.
Every students encounter this edge.
We have to train our resonativity day by day, slowly slowly.
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