Dancers hided behind the mirror in the garden. Audience faced to their
own shape swaying in the mirror. Their subbody might feel " Oh! my
subbody is dancing in the other world behind the mirror." Yes, our
subbodies want to start dancing always.
Butoh dancer resonates with audience's subbody and cobody.
Roberto's proto dream is a dream of his grand mother. She becomes a mountain
or piramid and move as a mountain.
When he danced the movement, it seemed as a piramid was moving really.
It was the deepest movement in what he did here.
At the decayed factory, Roberto tryed to integrate his all subbodies which
met in these six weeks, before he goes home because his father's illness.
Monika, odile, and Ikuko resonanted with his dance.
The word of fire in his title suggests multi dimensional qualia which visited and moved
his body during performance, grand mother, mountain, spirits, memories,
dreams, scul, fire, cobody and so on. The qualia of grand mother transformed
into the other qualia momentaryly during the dancing.
He could be just moved randomly by these qualia at this day. The themes
after this experiment what we should do is coming up clearly.
1. We need to be transparent mind/ body condition which we can catch subtlest
tendencies of life, and fix them with the best Jo-Ha-Kyu.
Jo-Ha-Kyu comes out into our subbody movement from our life, if we can
be released from thinking, we can see it transparently and catch it at
the best timing. The binds of conscious thinking disturbs the transparency.
2. We need to learn how to calm down our conscious mind; self and ego.
They are bound by dualistic thinking and narrow judgment unconsciously,
but they don't notice it.
Long term students will learn to become a midwife which can resonate with
the subtle breath of the birth of subbody and cobody inside own body and
the other person's body. To be a midwife we need to be egoless and selfless
condition.
3. The most basic principle of subbody method is the resonance of life.
We can learn it through the midwife process properly. The resonance is
not belonged only one's inside. The resonance is happening among our lives.
There are no border between self and others in life resonance. The process
to become a midwife is the most proper to learn life resonance.
This month, long term students will start to learn the midwife method.
A necessity for dancing is hidden in the proto dream
Suddenly in this weekend, student's dances got deep reality of qualia stream behind the dance.
Perhaps through the proto dream work, they met their own necessity for
dancing.
It was able to see transparently that their dances were carrying a real
qualia in the movement from other world. Audience was moved by the hidden
connection and the necessity for dancers to dance it. Niether ego, nor
self of dancers, but their lives have to dance it for living. Because the
proto dreams are the secrets which were creaed by life. The creator of
the proto dream is neither ego nor self, but life. An unknown strongest
warped qualia for your life is folded there. And, there are hidden deep
secrets and mysteries about who I am, and where I am from? We have to solve
the mysteries through the life long. It takes so long years, but it is
worth toreseach through dancing for long years. Each time of dancing we
can get novel awareness. I guarantee it certainly.
We should dance only nessesary dances for life. The subbody butoh school
is the place to investigate in the secret art and hidden techniques for
the butoh of life.
The necessity is not simple. It has multi layered complex. We need to reseach
it in multi dimensional and non-dual realm in the darkness of body. It
connects to the whole self and life with invisible hidden relationship.
That complexity is the reason why we need to investigate in it at least
for one year in the school. We cannot learn it in a short time.
The strongest warped qualia are ifolded in your proto dream
Everybody has dreamt an unforgettable nightmare.
It is imprinted in our deep memory dreadfully by only one experience, sometimes
we repeat the dream many times.
The strongest warped qualia for life is imprinted in the proto dream. It is one of the deepest mystery for us. we need to solve it during our life long. The secret who am I ,where did one's uniqueness come from is folded there.
When we try to create a butoh from proto dream, we meet a necessity of
creation for living.
After the proto dream work, suddenly student's movement have got deep reality
of qualia. We need this absolutely.
Become a weakened body as same as the decayed space.
A student, Roberto found a decayed space.
It is a abandoned old tea factory. It is an ideal decayed place to become
a weakened body through resonance with the space.
We decided to use there as the second practice studio and for video shooting.
We started to open resonance with the decayed place through walking meditation.
We need to be weakened enough to resonate with the decayed space.
Then we can listen in subtle resonance around the space.
When life was warped, it was printed as a hidden memory.
Origin life was one celled creature. It was so tiny and weak. When we become
the smallest cell, we can feel what is the the warped qualia for life.
All kinds of qualia which the small life cannnot resonate well are felt
for life as warped qualia. A tiny stimulus was felt as big pressure, another
tiny stimulus gave dificulty to the life. Taste all kind of warped qualia
as a tiny origin life. We were just one celled creature for three billion
years after the birth of life. Our life has experienced so many warped
qualia.
As a human, we still keep the hidden memories of warped qualia at various hidden parts of body as the hidden fluid, skins, cavities, muscles, and joints.
Procedure to taste warped qualia
1) Become fluid proto body by acceralating fluidity of body.
Conditioning no.4 (Proto creature conditioning) is proper for this.
Transform among various fluidity; liquid, gas, sol, gel, solid, wind, smoke,
cloud, vapor, spirit, and so on.
2) In the fluid body, suddenly some part receives warped qualia; presure,
twist, bend, shock, collapse, uncomfort, cold, freeze, and so on.
3) Strugle between fluid qualia and warped qualiai.
4) Through this reseach find your own unique warped qualia, and dance with
them.
5) Ask your original warped qualia, "Who are you?", "Where
are you from?"
6) You may meet a special qualia which made your uniqueness.
Subbody and cobody are fetus. It takes ten months to birth as a baby.
Now we can meet subbodies and cobodies as one month embryos.
It is my pleasure as a midwife to watch the process they grow up.
And it is the biggest sadness to face to miscarriage of subbodies.
I had faced so many miscarriages of subbody and cobody.
The sadness is the most intimate friend for me, as if only the sadness
made me stronger as a midwife. But always the pleasure which a novel subbody
or cobody is born is bigger then sadness.
Become a vaporized body.
Take off your physical body, ego and self.
Become invisible egoless, selfless being.
Become air, wind, spirit, fairy, angel, ghost, atomospher, and any kind
of invisible being.
Enter into your friend's butoh world as a vaporized body. You can add a
numinous dimension into the world.
Vaporized body is necessary to increase the number of dimension of the
butoh world.
Conditioning for vaporized body
1. Nyoro(Fluidity)
Release your solid body by doropping breathing with following the gravity. Shift from the resistance mode against gravity to acceptance mode. 2. Liquid to vapor
Amplify fluidity with shifting from liquid qualia to gas.
Become air, wind, smoke, cloud. 3. Vaporized cobody
Resonate with ypur partner by acceping subtle influence from your partner's
movement. Become egoless air stream together.
Become an invisible being; as the spirit, fairy, ghost, and any kind of
archtype. 4. Imaginary partnering Dance with your imaginary partner. Imagine that your partner transform from a being to other one quickly; wind, stone, creature, character, ghost, fairy, and so on. 5. Entering as a vaporized body
Enter into other's subbody world as various kinds of vaporized body.
Hijikata used vaporized body so often in his choreograph. It is necessary
to add another invisible dimension to a butoh world.
To increase the number of dimension is one of the main hidden technique
of Hijikata butoh. The life is resonating in the non dual and multi dimensional
realm. Your butoh world has to approach it gradually.
5. Transparency
Vaporized body is the entrance of transparent body. It is necessary to
take off your ego, self and all kinds of binds as a human. Become just
the egoless and selfless life. Transform from a being to another being
flexiblly in a moment without any binds or restraints. The transparent
body is one of the final stage of being.
Kugutsu is not physical doll or pappet, it is a special being swaying between
this world and other world in Animism culture. It has human shape by various
material; stone, cray, wood, paper, and so on, the shape of human like
which ancient people made was not a simbol which western modern culture
misunderstands. It is resonaitng between this world and other world.
Become a medium between living world and dead's world. Watch this world
from dead's world by glassball eyes, or rotten eyes.
The video above is Hans Bellmer's work. His dools were a kind of Kugutsu
which were very rare in the western modern culture. Hijikata Tatsumi used
Bellmer's images often in his butoh score for his choreograph.
This year we started class from five hidden qualia.
They are the forgotten qualia in our daily body for conscious mind; hidden skin, hidden fluid, hidden cavities, hidden muscles, and hidden joints.
Now students started reseaching hidden qualia in the darkness of body.
Slowly what is happening becomes not clear, because so many hidden quolia
are resonating at the same time. This is the way to be multi-dimansional
butoh body. It takes time to digest various trainings. Week by week the
complexity is deepening. .It has just started.
We went down to Himalaya Rock Garden.
There are so many tasty huge rocks which fell down from Himalaya mountain
during these ten thousand years after the last ice age. They are the teachers
for today.
We listen in the stone with becoming as quiet as stone.
And listen in the gravity with rolling on the stone and the slope.
Students find their own constellation which fits to own subbodies arround
the rock garden, hill and stream.
Various subbodies came out with resonating with various land scape and
constellation.
Tomorrow students will integrate all subbodies and cobodies which they
met during these three weeks. The world of subbodies will increase a lot
of layers and dimensions week by week. We need these process to sink into
the deeper layer of the darkness of body. It is so complicated multi-dimensional
world. It takes time to get there.