19 January, 2012

Butoh of Shisha, Abyss of Life

Recently, I received some drawings and photos from several participants of the Butoh Festival. By this chance, I watched all pictures of the Festival, and I noticed what we did.
All dancers and participants have co-experienced of various kinds of Shisha's world. Shisha is the Dead in Japanese, but it is not physical dead body, Shisha can transform into various beings; wind, air, tree, grass, animal, bug, stone, mountain, and so on. Because Life is the resonace with everything including lifeless beings.
We studied 'The Art of Shisha' through 'Quiet House' by Hijikata Tatsumi for one years.

“Shisha (the dead) transform their shape quietly and infinitely. It is not rare that they use shapes of others flexibly and naturally.

 
Each student researched own Abyss as bottomless depth in the darkness of body. They found various behind worlds; dead friend or family, ancesters, under water, ruin, Amazon forest, Cambosian misery, underground, memories, dreams, nightmares, traumas, and so on. And invited each others into each Abyss. Every students entered into others Abyss behind the daily world. Not only dancers, but also participants experienced various Abyss through their bodily experienced. We could share the Butoh of Shisha with public.
This is the charasteristic of the Himalaya Butoh Festival.

This year, we will deepen it deeper. Each student will become a co-reseacher of different Abyss and we share all of them each other. Abyss of Life is so deep, behind world has infinite variations. We don't know at all about them. We need to colaborate to investigate in it. All reserach will be group reseach. Without Ego and Self we can do it. To take off Ego and Self is not so easy. It takes long time to meet and overcome so many difficulties and egdes about Ego and Self. We will learn with daily Ego and Self, nothing happens. This is the reason that the minimum term of subbody school is at least for one year. Please understand this.