16. The difficulty of changing place

The body is a dancing place. A dancing place of the hand, a dancing place of the hip, a dancing place of behind the elbow, and so on.

The depth of this dancing place is formed by overcoming the deep memories (and qualias) that were caught in each dancing place and reverse twisting them.

For example, suppose there is a house of Mr. Yanagida, and I discover that it is a very precious thing that there is a peacock in Mr. Yanagida’s yard.

And the place called “Can Factory” is narrated by the powder that was dear to me.

They become the blood of the dance.    

A peacock is a metaphor of surprising experience for Life.
When Life encountered an unexpected thing, the qualia of surprising are inprinted on the body as Life memory. These deep impressive qualia of Life make a flower as the Flower.
Only Life knows well what is the Flower for Life. Then the Flower can travel from Life to Life through resonance.

Can factory is a symbol of deep memories which many original qualia are hidden.

Blood of dance is a metohor of each dancer's original qualia which are hidden in each part of body as forgotten memories or prototypical motion or emotion as fear, scare, shiver, dizzy, collapsed, frozen, twisted, warped and so on.

Dancer should research original deep qualia at each dancing place. When a physical movement and the blood of dance become oneness, the movements crystalize as a Butoh.

All of them are able to be taken by neither photograph nor video. Only realtime audience's Life can be shaked by resonance with it.
The blood of dance and own peacock are the most important thing for creation of Butoh of Life.



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When: Monday, 25 June - Friday, 20 July 2012 (except weekends), total: 100 hours/5 hours per day

Where: Tiocan 25 munites from Geneva, Switzerland
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SUBBODY BUTOH WORKSHOP
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organized by dancetheatre group Akropoditi (www.akropoditi.gr)

When: Monday, 30 July - Friday, 24 August 2012 (except weekends), total: 80 hours/4 hours per day

Where: Dance School SDM, Iroon Polytecneiou 84, Ermoupolis, Syros island, Greece
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Fee: 270euros
ADVANCE PAYMENT: 150 euros.
The rest of the amount is to be paid upon the first day of the workshop.
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After the completion of the workshop there will be given a performance in Ermoupolis at location chosen by Akropoditi in coordination with the Municipality of Ermoupolis, Syros.

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Hijikata's solo of "Quiet House" is performed by the Weakened body throughout the whole time.
It is not only the welknown 'desperately standing corp (dead body)' as people regard as the basic butoh body which moves slowly, but it is " The Shisha" which transform quietly yet infinitely.
The following words which Hijikata wrote by his blood with the title of "Important" are neither understood nor taken over by few students of him. I have never seen any butoh dancer who became 'shisha' except of Hijikata.

2. Important

“Shisha transform their shapes quietly yet infinitely. It is not rare that they borrow the shapes of things on the earth with unexpected nonchalance.”

It is necessary to become　'shisha' what we dig the darkness of body infinitely, with experiencing all conditions of Life between the Hell and Heaven. 'Shisha' does not belong in modern concept, but belong in the animistic world which human has experienced for seven millions of years history. In the ancient animism world, everything is transforming infinitely. In the ancient Buddhism world, it is regarded there are three sousands world, and shisha travel all of those different worlds.
In the ancient Japanese animism world, also eight millions kinds of spirits are living in the non-dual and multi-dimensional worlds.

How is it able to become Shisha?
We need to take off narrow modern humanistic intelligence and to become Life.
Please start to see the pictures above, and feel subtle shivering of your Life.
Not receiving them as the information, but accept them with subtle Life resonance; with prototypical emotions and subtle inner motions as shivering, fear, or awe and so on.
The butoh of Life starts from those of primitive response of Life.
To get it or not will be your turning point to start digging into the tunnels toward the Abyss of Life.
In that realm of Abyss (bottomless deapth), we will be aware of the oneness of the Shisha and the Red God. It is 'the Hidden logic world before the division of the Self and Others' which Hijikata demanded all butoh dancers to enter, as the fetus and the womb. The Shisha and the Red God are the metaphors of non-dual and multi-dimensional resonance of Life. Our daily body and mind could not resonate with the infinite world of Life and Death including all kinds of miseries, disasters, wars, mutations of bodies, hadicaped, and so on. But when we take off the illusion of 'the Human', we can recover the infinite resonativity (= resonance ability) with all of them as Life.

The practice of butoh is just to travel infinitely among these behind worlds with vaporizing and materializing technique, until you meet your own Abyss where the reason why you need to dance is hidden.



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( These researches are also written at Subbody Journal 2012 with more concrete practice process.)

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