2006/08/13

●Become a quiet body

Now we are going to start August course in the long monsoon of Himalaya India. It is cool, I like monsoon, because it’s very quiet then we can concentrate more deeply.

I will try to start to become a quiet body.

I found out that this is the most important first step to transform from daily gross body to subtle subbody.   

I learned from student who dropped out from the school on the middle of class. I realized that the reason why they dropped out was because they could not understand how to transform to subbody mode in the first week.

The quiet body was the first body in my ten butoh bodies.

I forgot that I needed for a long years process to get this point to transform into quiet body for leaving from daily body.

2006/07/18

●Qualia of unable to move

There are qualia of movement and qualia of unable to move.

Which is deeper?

Why we are moved by seeing handicapped people’s movement so deeply?

There is a reason because our lives have so long history of unable to move.

4 billions years before our origin life start on this planet, and until 1 billions years before only single sell creatures lived on this planet.

After the experiences for 3 billions years as a creature of unable to move, some multi-sells creature appeared.

Our origin life had experienced unable to move or very hardly to move for so long period. This is the reason why the qualia of unable to move, move us so deeply.

In contemporary dance world, people pursue how to move, how to invent new movement, but people don’t know the deepest qualia is qualia of unable to move.

Today we experienced following practice.

After these experiences, try to find passive subbody movement in the darkness of body in 20 minutes self research time.

Today each student find very unique movement as an original creature. Each creature has one’s own timing of response, this unique timing must be the real life memory from origin creature.

2006/05/28

●Resonance theater

How beautiful resonance was it in the subbody-cobody theater in this weekend.

Giada( Italy), Raguh( India), Tanapol (Thai), Mayumi (Japan), people from different contry, different culture transformed into subtle resonance body, I could see it.

They could listen up to subtle qualia change in the space beyond the border between inside and outside.

When we become subbody mode enough, we can notice that the border between me and others is illusion, in a qualia sea, just many qualia are streaming and changing.

But I want to go further from here.

Where? So, not only dance world, but also our life have to change, from daily ego world to resonance world. My subbody is always searching the new tunnels toward there.

2006/05/23
●Sink into deeper subbody

This week is the third week of May course.

We try to sink into deeper level of subconscious=body world,

and find new subbodies.

Swaying meditation

Today we try to develop subbody with improvisational communication way.

Showing new subbody character with communication

2006/05/16

●Secret of Rhizoming

Perhaps subbody and rhizome has secret deep relationship.

Today we practice about rhizoming. Rhizoming is my special term which I used for these ten years. It means a delay process which a transformation begins at a small part of body and it spreads into next part of body until whole body.

Especially, using delay technique, I guided students to listen up to the slow process of subtle transformation of subbody.

Then today so many new interesting thing happened.

A student showed very precise transforming process from one subbody to another subbody.

Another student danced so many different characters of subbody coming out one after another in short time.

And some of them enjoyed the flesh encounter with unknown character who hided in their darkness of body.

One student said that she surprised when she danced a strange shadow character of her with resonance by others, the feeling of the shadow character has completely changed from the first impression when she met the shadow in a self research time. So, she surprised at what she thought the shadow must be her own secret, but it can be resonated with others. Subbody has suddenly transformed into cobody. This is the biggest shock for everybody.

Anyway this rhizoming process matchs familiar with the transforming process of subbody.

The process that a subtle change increases gradually and becomes total change finally is the common way of resonance of strings.

All strings are resonating always in these ways in the multi dimensional space, then also qualia are transforming in the same ways.   

Finally I find the deep connection among rhizome, subbody, qualia, rhizoming, delay technique, subbody and cobody. They are connecting as a medium of the resonance of strings.

I did not know the relation before, but now the secret is becoming open.

2006/05/15

●Multi-dimensional resonance body

Open up your subbody to the world.

Resonate in multi dimensions with others.

We already have eight unique subbody movements in the first week.

This second week we grow up our subbody movements to multi dimensional resonance bodies.

What is multi dimensions in dance?

1. Open to inside and outside half and half.

Listen to inside qualia stream 50% and listen to outside qualia 50%.

2. Open up your subbody in multi channels, and resonate with other’s subbody movement in every channel; in body channel, movement channel, visual channel, audio channel, feeling channel, human relationship channel, world image=self image channel and thinking channel.

3. Start resonance with other’s subbody movement from one part of your body, and it influence to next part and next, until whole your body are resonating with others.

4. Infectious rhizome theater

Somebody starts one’s subbody dance. Others start resonating at some small part of body. And it influence to next part of body and next.

Slowly like a infectious fever increasing to whole body, resonance is increasing to whole body.

Also first person starts resonance and second, third, slowly number of resonating persons are increasing until all persons resonance.

This is the infectious rhizome theater, which I wish to realize for a long time. Now this dream is coming true. A student said how beautiful is it! So it was so impressive moment.

Because the students know well all subbody movements are very true movement which we have to overcome so many edges which made us pain or suffer.  

These deep movement are resonating and infecting like ripples on the water. Subbody dance is transforming to cobody movement.

Mystic participations are happening between subbody and cobody.

Everybody have to be moved by this wonder. 

●Subbody school
Ｃｏｕｒｓｅｓ　ａｎｄ　ｃｏｎｔｅｎｔｓ　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Everything is resonating.

When you stop daily consciousness, you can catch it.

According to string theory of physics, the universe is made up of tiny strings whose resonant patterns of vibration are the microscopic origin of particle masses and force changes.

Against the standard physics which is bound by the old three dimensional intelligence, string theory opened completely new sight to the multi-dimensional universe. It suggests to us the possibility of new type of thinking way.

I expand the thinking of string theory one more step, I think that not only things, light, sounds, gravity, electromagnetism, but also qualia are made up of strings whose resonant patterns of vibration.

Yes, we human being are resonating with everything through feeling qualia resonance.

Not only our human, every creatures are resonating with nature. When you come to subbody school Himalaya, you can notice the deep fact very naturally.

Why you can not notice about this simple fact in the daily city life.

Because you are bound by consciousness.
Consciosness does not know about resonance and qualia at all.

Qualia are feeling of quality about something.

We are always feeling qualia about everything subconsciously, though our consciousness does not notice it.

We are always resonating through qualia resonance with everything.

When you see a thing, you resonate with reflection of light from that thing.

When you hear a sound you resonate with vibrations of air.

When you read this sentence you resonate with my thinking somehow.

Warmth, gravity, light, color, sound, taste, smell, imagination, thinking, ……everything has it own qualia, and through qualia we resonate with everything in the real world and imaginary world.

There are no distinction between real and imaginary for qualia.

Qualia are always just resonate each other beyond the border of eleven dimensions freely.

This month I will start to teach subbody resonance method at subbody school.

.●Stop ego! Then you can resonate with the whole

 This is the most important thing. Every thing starts from here.

Ego does not resonate. Ego is bound by a delusion that I am me, you are you. Ego is a prisoner of the prejudice of separation.

But when you stop ego and listen to the darkness of body, you can hear the resonance between your subbody and other’s life or the world.

Search the weakest, almost collapsing qualia. The weaker qualia are, the stronger in resonance ability.

Sway the qualia in your body.

With breathing in try to amplify some qualia, and listen to the fading process with breathing out. You can catch new qualia are arising, amplify them. In these way you can taste so many kinds of qualia are coming out from your darkness of body.

This week I will guide you to transfoem your subbody so that has rich of fountains of qualia.  

●Calabi-Yau sway

When I show this picture with asking to students, “What is this?

Guess what? “ Almost student have no idea.

I explain that this is a picture to explain the super string theory of physics.

Most of us take for granted that our universe has three dimensions. But this is not so according to string theory, which claims that our universe has many more dimensions than meet the eye dimnsions that are tightly curled into the folded fablic of the cosmos.
According to string theory, the universe is made up of tiny strings whose resonant patterns of vibration are the microscopic origin of particle masses and force changes. Against the standard physics which is bound by the old three dimensional intelligence, string theory opened completely new sight to the multi-dimensional universe.

These pictures are called “Calabi-Yau space” which has eleven dimensions where strings are resonating together.

I think that also the resonance patterns of strings generate qualia as same as force and particle masses in the univerce.

Because the pattern of qualia is an infinity, as well as the resonance patterns of string. I can not imagine that any other things has like this infinity.

Strings are extending and shrinking in eleven dimensions. They are so complicated as we can not imagine at all.

Today we open our imagination with following to the vibration of strings in the Calabi-Yau space.

We start the swaying which I told before.

With the rhythm of breathing we expand some qualia  and fade out.

Listen to the fading process.

You can find some different qualia are coming up in fading process.

Then we continue some qualia to others.

At first in sitting position, try to open qualia in five life desires and in eight channels.

Then stand up, open movement according to body feeling, audio and visual channel, feeling and human relationship channel, finally open world image and self image channel.

All students surprise that so many different qualia are coming out instantly.

Yes, our darkness of body has infinite qualia by nature.

Before we did not know how to open them, now I find the way very clearly.

When we experience it together, our bodies resonate and understand immediately without words.

So now here we start completely novel experiments which unfold the qualia from the darkness of body at the first time in the world.

●Malika’s left hand has started dancing

Malika has tiny pretty left hand. She is from Holland, cheerful good-natured girl.

Malika said on the fouth days after she enterd school, “I feel that my dance which now I am creating is boring.”

Lee answered “ OK, That is the timing your left hand wants to start dancing. Please listen to your left hand”

Malika try to search what dance her left hand wants to dance, and create a dance.

When her tiny left hand started dancing, every body received deep resonance from the depth of heart. Andrea and Crisy said that Malika’s dance is very strong, I want to search deeper subbody too.

Malika’s left hand dance gave us so deep influences. How strong power it has!

Malika’s left hand keeps deep qualia in it, some day the potential energy have to be released toward the world.

I appear to all physical and mental handicapped people.

Let’s come to Himalaya, and create your own subbody dance together.

You have just difference with others. We all human have many differences. All differences should be tasted with each other deeply, and it makes us richer.

There are no reason to be discriminated at all.

On the contrary, the bigger difference, the more important for human to make rich and diversify our world.

Be confident. You can create and show your strong and deep taste dance toward the world. Through it you can turn over the wall of  prejudice in the world.

Subbody method is an art for living to shift all your minus cards to plus in a moment.

,●Mille plateaux start

Become rhizome, become a secret.

What subbody butoh are created by students in the Subbody Butoh School?

Now you can see transparently the creation of students on the page of Mille Plateaux.

●How to open creative subconscious

Now I can say we succeed to open up the possibility of our creative subconscious fully.

The very key is the finding subbody.

When subconscious become oneness with body it is possible to open the creativity in it’s full range. 

Subbody method guide you to open eight channels; visual, audio, body, movement, feeling, human relationship, world image=self image, and thinking channel.

Psychologists and philosophers misunderstand that they can treat the subconscious by only thinking way by brain.

But nobody succeed to see transparently.

Because nobody can see subconscious directly.

It become visible when subconscious become oneness with body and movement in whole channels as a subbody. 

Now we can see the movement of subconscious as a subbody butoh.

So we have to move with opening whole channels if we want to open our creativity of subconsciousness.

Now we can say this subbody butoh school is one of the most creative space on this planet. If you doubt it you can see our weekly photo journal of the butoh school.

●How to stop the gross body

I guided student to stop the gross body state of our daily body and mind.

For concentrate to listen to the subtle signal from our subbody, we start to sway our bottom of body with sitting position with finding the most comfortable tempo and size.

When we find it, we change the tempo of sway to very slow speed, then we can transform to subconscious mode easily.

When we enter into the subconscious mode, suddenly it is possible to feel so many sensitive qualia of body feeling are coming up.  And we can feel very sweet body qualia at some part of body. When we move to spread it to another part of body with very subtle sway, the sweet qualia spread to our whole body. These are the signals that we shift into subconscious mode.

 ●Open introvert eight channels

We try to open introvert eight channels.

We have eight channels; Visual. Audio, Body, Movement, Feeling, Human relationship, World Image=self Image, and Thinking channels.

Each channel has both of extrovert channel and introvert channel.

Extrovert channels response to real world of outside, introvert channels resonate with inner imaginary qualia.

Extrovert channel is strong and it belongs to gross body of our daily body and mind.

Introvert channel is subtle and weak, it belongs to subtle body in our darkness of body.

Today we concentrate to open only subtle introvert channel in each channel. This method become possible just this year, until last year I could not guide how to open only introvert channel. This is the big change.

・Open introvert visual channel

Catch an imaginary eye which is watching your eyes in front of you.

Try to watch each other with this imaginary eye, sometimes by using exactly front eyes, sometimes by side edge eye.

Enjoy with imaginary vision by using white eyes which watch backward darkness.

Watch between front view and the darkness of back view by using diagonal eyes. Then you will find your shadow character is coming out with cunning face, black humor, jealousy, and any other strange character. We enjoy various kind of delicate qualia which we can not describe by words.

　・Open introvert audio channel  

With breathing listen to the various delicate rear nuance of body sound before they become human language or music by social sophistication.　　　　　　　　　　　

Taste them and amplify them by twisting mouth, changing face, and curving body.

When you make breathing sound by changing shape of body, you can feel that it connects to your emotion and feeling.

　・Open introvert feeling channel

When you open introvert audio channel, you can notice that it is resonating with very delicate feeling flow.

Our daily consciousness recognizes only rough feelings like joy, sadness, anger, fun, ease, love, and hatred, on the contrary, introvert feeling has so delicate nuance variety which we can not explain the subtle difference by language.

Taste the rich variation of introvert feeling which is flowing in your darkness of body.

　・Open introvert human relationship channel

Play with the imaginary interaction between you and imaginary strange persons or creatures. They appear in the space in front of you, and tease you, mock you, touch you in various unexpected ways.

They may force your arm make self contact in strange way.

They may enter into your body and move as a snake or rat.

Your body is possessed by them. Enjoy it.

　・Open introvert world image=self image channel

Imagine that you are a fetus in your mother’s womb. This is your first world and self, They are not separated.

Imagine that you are a child in your kid’s room. You are a king in this world.

Imagine your school, society, country, and planet with feeling the shift of your self image. 

Imagine that you are in a imaginary world, desert, tropical forest, deep see, moon, heaven, and in the earth. You can create any world image and self image freely.

　・Open introvert thinking channel

Not opening the normal extrovert thinking channel by the way which you learned at the school.

But listen to a subtle signal of an awareness which comes up from your deep body.  This awareness will tell you a deep truth. You must feel a strong brightness with it. Like the dense fog dispersed.

Ancient people used to call this as the enlightenment. When you continue to listen to the darkness of body it occur so often. Just receive it as a little reward naturally.

After this practice, we tried to catch the original qualia of each own subbody and shared together.

It is better as ugly as possible, as weak as possible.

Today pretty interesting subbodys are come out.

（I learned the basic concept of channels from C.G.Jung and Arnold Mindell. Jung’s types are four, and Mindell’s channels are six. I arranged them into eight channels through my experience. See “The process science of the dreambody” by Arnold Mindell ,1985 ）

●Why can subbody find such an interesting changing timing?

Today, so many different varieties of Ha=changing movement are appeared from student’s subbodies.

This is the most grateful moment for a midwife of subbody.

Why can subbody find such an interesting Ha=changing timing so well?

I have asked myself for long time about this question.

Now I find an answer. The reason why subbody can find it is because subbody is not bound by stereotypes like consciousness.

Our consciousness is bound by stereotypes of dualism which is opposite of strength is weakness, contrast to slowness is high speed.

Then the judgment by consciousness is always so poor.

But subbody is so free from stereotypes, then subbody can find the best timing of Ha=changing from millions of possibilities.

Then when so many interesting ha=changing movements come out from student’s sobbody, it is the proof that they are now in a subconscious mode enough.

Everything is going well now. How far deep place can we sink into at this school?

2006/03/28

●Opening the resonance channel

Today, I felt that student’s resonance channels of qualia are opened gradually.

Everyday we try to listen to subtle resonance between me and others, between inside and outside, this attempt sink into their body.

They can feel the resonance between a part of body and another part of body through skin, and also between each body.

When our consciousness is alive, we can not feel the resonance, but when we could stop daily brain, it comes up very easily.

They can move with listening the subtle resonance among them.

They transform from subbody to cobody.

Cobody is a resonating subbody.

When this resonance channel open, we can share very unique qualia which each person’s subbody has.

●The most miserable qualia with the most novel Jo-ha-Kyu

Also we continue to search the deepest subbody with the farthest qualia from human, the most miserable, lowest qualia.

Because it has the most strongest resonance ability.

But we have to find the most novel Jo-Ha-Kyu with this subbody butoh.

Jo-Ha-Kyu is the key of subbody butoh, if we can not show the subbody butoh without novel Jo-ha-Kyu, it does not work. Nobody will resonate.

Then the Jo-ha- kyu is one of the most important technique.

●Transparent Ri-ken
(Watch the resonating Jo-ha-Kyu from outside)

We have to learn the thechnique of Ri-ken.

Ri-ken means watch yourself from outside in performance.

But this does not mean to watch by video camera eye.

Video camera eye does not resonate with qualia.

We have to learn to watch the resonance between butoh dancer and audience.

It is always swaying. We need to control it very carefully to find the best timing of Jo-Ha-Kyu.

This is the resonance Ri-ken technique of subbody butoh.

Everything is resonating. It is the most important thing to open this resonance Ri-ken channel in butoh.

2006/03/27

●Search the deepest subbody

This week is the 3rd week after opening school.

We try to deeper research into the darkness of body.

In the morning we trid to experience our fetus qualia dream.

We listen to the body sound each other, and we became a big human womb.

And we listen to the darkness of body to find a strange qualia of the deepest subbody.
What is the deepest subbody?

It has the farthest qualia from human. It looks like the most miserable shape. The weakest, the lowest, almost dying qualia is the deepest one.

Because this qualia has the strongest ability of resonance.

It can resonate with the unhappiness of farthest place in this planet.

If we can dance this deepest subbody butoh, our subbody transform into the strongest resonating body with the world.

When we listen to the body, we can find many kind of qualia.

Almost of them are just giving a subtle short signal, and leaving immediately.

They show an instant bodily feeling, short flirt of image, vision, sign, and disappear soon.

We try to find the deepset one in these qualia, like a lowest creature’s movement, like a dream of fetus, shadow character’s feeling, weakest and dirtiest dying movement.

As strange one as possible, we try to search.

When we catch qualia of deepest subbody, we can amplify it to the subbody butoh with listening the Jo-Ha-Kyu timing.

This is the essence of subbody butoh method.

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The 2nd week /March 23, 2006

●Become a floating body in the qualia sea

We are floating in the sea of qualia which are resonating each other and changing, flowing always.

But our consciousness does not notice about qualia flow.

When we die down our consciousness, we can notice the qualia flow.

Then we start from meditation and concentrate to listen to the sway of life.

We sway our body by one’s favorite size and tempo.

When sweet and comfortable bodily feeling come up, change tempo to very slow speed, then we can shift to subconscious mode.

In a subconscious mode we can catch the qualia flow easily.

All of us are floating in these qualia flow when we were a fetus in our mother’s womb.

●Remember your fetus dream

Remember the dream of fetus. When we did not know that we are human. We might dream as a lot of kind creature. It is full of qualia flow. You can contact the qualia sea which is always resonating with outside and changing, floating, swaying. So we are floating in the qualia sea for ten months in the womb. We were oneness with this qualia flow.

To become a fetus qualia flow, it is the first step to transform into subbody.

●Unfold your subbody’s strange qualia

Though we have dreamed as a lot of kind creatures with many strange body