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● Second term, 2009
August 10 , 2009- Decmber 4, 2009

My biggest teaching / Asuka

When I faced my unknown edge, I faced a deep pressure feeling in my chest:

pain, cannot breathe, cannot speak, need to cry. It was going on for more than a week already.

I definitely didn't wan't to deal with it.. I felt so annoyed when you proposed edge work exercises.

It was so bad, I couldn't figure out what it was or why is this was happening to me.

I thought, if it's just anguish, it will pass, then it's no use to do anything about it, otherwise I'll just feed it...

and I don't want to make things worse..

However, with all the aversion I had, I slowly followed your propositions..

Suddently, I realised it was me pressing me : My self was struggling and oppressing me.

I watched and asked silently: ¨ Why are you doing this to me? Why do you want to kill me ? ¨

It answered that we were having a war, and I was divided because of paradoxe.

I wanted one thing and its opposite, to be one thing and the opposite,

so the other me was embodying my opposite.

Because I had been suppressing it, also it was suppressing me.

But I realised..

we cannot live without each other. Whatever happens, we must continue to live together

Me and my opposite,

We converse..

We must take care of each other, otherwise no one can live,

it is a matter of surviving.

Together, reunited, we can be All.

Everything that seems outside, isn't separate.

We are One.

Everytime I deny something, hate, or suppress something,

I am denying a part of the whole.

Each time I forgive and reconcile myself with something that seems outside of me,

I forgive and reconcile myself with a part of me..

and now, this is my work..

In order to survive..

To recognise everything as oneness..

Not to dissociate myself with what is around..

this is also how I am erased..

There is no such thing as individuation.

Most of all, to find Balance, because Balance is a universal law..

And to be able to see with the eyes of the opposite is

the key to finding Balance.

This drawing emerged then.

The white human as myself as I consciously know myself,

all that seems stable,material, that I perceive as reality,

 all that I accept as a world, self image, identity..

The dark human as my unconscious side,

all that is unstable, immaterial, unknown world,

all unaccepted aspects or repressed self,

shadow..

Inspired by the ying and yang symbol of balance,

I found out a way to move beyond the edge of the moment,

I traded eyes with my opposite,

saw myself, erased my mind,

understood, and let go..

This was perhaps the biggest freeing feeling of my life...

I wish to apply it all along.

Thank you Lee, for pushing us to face our edge.



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29 June, 2009

From Earth Too / Francesco

Francesco from Italy, appeared from a fire space under the stone table in the garden. He found this beginning in April and deepen the whole piece. Francesco asked the other students to resonate with subtle sway almost without movement. This was Francesco’s experiment for resonance. I guided a conditioning to upstream origin life four billion years ago instead of Francesco. Origin life might not be able to move or merely to move. They just must be moved by other stimulus; wave of ocean, change of temperature, weather, earthquake thunder, and so on. The passive resonance was the most original resonance pattern for the life. We have sixty trillion cells, each cell has memory of being moved, hardly to move. We remember this most primitive qualia of life. And students resonated with Francesco’s weakened. His movement was also so weakened one. It took time to go out from the hole of fire place. It was hardly to stand after long struggle in the small space.

He found many subbodies in four months, but in that day he selected a few subbodies and polished the movement. The rest which he could not dance at the piece will be his secret. He needs to explore his own secret, and grow up his subbodies and cobodies.  This piece might have a possibility to be his life work.  


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25 June, 2009

Requiem for a dream / Pete

Pete who is the third year student from Switzerland, showed his plan of his experiment of resonance. It was composed by seven parts; 1. Underground world, 2. Mother, 3, Fetus, 4. Inner child, 5. Anima, 6. Medusa, 7. Dance of death. Here was shown his self research map in the darkness of body for these three years.

In each part, there was choreographed both of his movement as subbody and the others movement as cobody.

1.    Underwater world

On the stage, each costumes were hanging ceiling. Each dancers entered by ash walk or nest walk slowly and put on costume and transform into own bottom shape. Each body started movement as an underwater creature which was own proto body with resonating.            

2.    Mother

During Pete danced mother part, cobody became fetus.

3.    Fetus

When Pete turned Fetus part on the floor, cobody became mother which was moved each mother’s qualia.

4.    Inner child

When Pete started Inner child part, cobody passed through wall to wall by each hidden body walk, and Pete was moved by the others.

5.    Anima

One of the main part of the piece. Pete danced Anima part, cobody laid down on the floor.

6.    Medusa

Asuka became Medusa. When cobody was looked by Medusa, it turned into stone. Pete approach Medusa and killed Medusa. Cobody carried out Medusa.

7.    Dance of death

Cobody scattered leaves on the stage. Pete danced the last part on the leaves and leave to another world. Cobody danced the dead dance, and end.

The piece was Pete’s travel map of the whole self which he digged out for three years. The other students entered into his world as cobody and as each own subbody. This was the experiment of resonance by Pete. The other's subbody experienced Pete’s inner world as cobody. Maybe the constellation of each student encountered novel experience and expanded through the experiment. With creating each own piece, to experience other’s inner world is hard, but at the same time it must be very rich and precious. Each experience is only one chance in the life. Subbody and cobody will be trained to more transparent subbody-cobody which was released from ego bind and self bind. The transforming process from human to the life is going to reach the hardest phase now.      

Also for Pete, this piece will become his fatal subbody and cobody.  This is just the beginning of lifelong work. Continue to dance the piece in various condition and place. Cultivate the subbody deeper and deeper. The subbody will grow up as the most reliable sworn friend of the whole life.      


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22 June, 2009

Steal / Catalina

Today, the final experimentation of resonance by eight students has started. Every each day, one student experiment one’s own resonance which is integrated four months investigation.  All students enter into other student’s subbody-cobody world.

Today, the first resonance by Catalina (Colombia) started. She took off her toe shoes and started walking by red colored feet. She took off her history which she learned Ballet for sixteen years. And she lighted up each student at each room of the school. Each student showed only a precise tiny movement which Catalina choreographed them.

Tamar who was weakened on the bed, Asuka who was swaying by the window, Gorka who was nearly dying in the water of bathtub, Francesco, Pete and Xavi whose eyes were twitching, Alina who was showing naked back, Chiara who was standing with naked, and Catalina danced with lighted up by flash light momentary. Each scene was a fragment of her subbody in the darkness. The piece was ended by the cobody who were picking out spiders threads from the mouth.  

In the experiment by each student, all students entered into the piece with various way of resonance. Their constellation of the darkness of body will be changed drastically. The purgatory for rebirthing as another being except of human has started. It will continue for three week from today.

8 Weeks Beginning Subbody Butoh Workshops
with Kats D Fukasawa

When:  Wednesday 6:00-9:00 pm          July 1, 8, 15, 29   August 5, 12, 19, 26

Locations:    Fallout Urban Art Center Studio, 2601 2nd Avenue South, Minneapolis

For more information about workshop, please contact Kats D Fukasawa at kats@paneerproject.com or 612-703-7501.