May 2010

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Kangra fort
28 May, 2010

Become a subtle resonance body

After learning the 'Bugs walk" we visited a ancient Indian remains 'kangra fort".
In the morning, I told students, "Remember the last sentense of the text of Bugs walk."
"It was "It's your end. (Will is bug or sense of matter).
Yesterday you tryed the first stage of bugs walk. You were moved by bugs not moving by your will. Today is the second stage of it. Today you will meet so various qualia at the Kangra fort, instead of bug, you are moved by the sense of matter at kangra fort. Try to forgwt that you are a human until arriving at the kangra fort. OK?"
The last sentense of the text of Bugs walk is the secret key to enter the second stage of bugs walk. There was hidden an universal method to transform the subtle resonance body. It is the final hidden technique of Hijikata butoh.

Students found their own constellation and tryed to resonate with various subtle qualia.



26 May, 2010

How to co-create a world

This year we investigate in various resonance pattern between subbody and cobodies. Basically, we tryed free resonance from March to April. In this month, slowly we started to try some specic resonance pattern. Through these investigation slowly we will find the best resonance pattern for co-creating a world. The experiment for it has just started.


23 May, 2010

A letter for new students 2011 from a midwife



I, Rhizome Lee will be able to teach at the subbody school for only a few more years. My body is starting to be broken. Then I decide to accept new students who want to learn earnestly at least for one year, and want to be professional butoh dancer, choreographer, workshop facilitater, and body practitioner.
In this year, there are so many cancellation without notice and sudden quit on the way. I, as a midwife was deeply hurt by them. The reason why I decided the one year course as the minimum term is that it need for one year at least for fetus of subbody to be born in this world perfectly as the same as the human baby. For me as a midwife, the cancellation and quit before one year meant miscarriage of subbodies. I have already experienced so many miscarriges of subbody before perfect birth. It is the biggest sadness and shock for midwife. I could not endure to be hurt by these ways any more. Please apply the subbody school only earnest students who understand this and have a strong will to learn for one year length at least. You and I have only a few more year's chance to spend tim e together.
New applicator need to reserve your space by paying advance fee of the half amount of one year fee untill the end of June 2010.
For more info: View "School Guide 2011"
Please understand the necessity of this dicision, and apply soon. I will devote all my life to the earnest students, and grow up you as an absolutelly unique butoh dancer and resonator. Let's recreate the world together through life resonance.

Rhizome Lee



20 May, 2010

Resonance Theater

This week students tryed to resonate together through out the theater by various resonance pattern between subbody and cobody.
Through the resonance how to support the subbody and to co-create the world is the theme of the month.
Students have to listen to the Jo-Ha-Kyu of subbody carefully and create the best resonance pattern for each moment of subbody's Jo-ha-Kyu.
When Jo-ha-Kyu has completed, the most beautifull resonance will appear as a miracle.


Bound Innocence / Odile
18 May, 2010

Bound Innocence / Odile

Odile was born in Dominica.
The slavery system was vanished long years ago formaly.
But her innocent subbody is still bound by chain.
Why?
She came here to meet this butoh and solve the necessary question and mystery for our life, I believe so.


Become a secret
8 May, 2010

Becoming a secret

Life is resonating with many different worlds in multi dimensional realm.
Butoh dancer has to transform a multi layers body which communicates with many other worlds, and find a necessity for dancing.
This day, When Odile who was born in Dominica appeared with a bound leg by chain, my life was attacked strongly. I could see the ancesters are dancing with her. When dancer gets a necessity for dance, and hides it in the depth of body, she transforms a transparent secret. We will continue to deepen it through the year.
Becuase only the deepest secret and mystery, and the flowers which are crystallized out from there are worth to show and share with other life.


Contact with your own other worlds
5 May, 2010

Communicating with another world

We are reseaching the way to become various cobody; group body conditions. Odile guided us to a cobody with back to back contact position, and becoming one body, spiders crawl on our body and we are bound by spider's thread.
Next she guided us to communicate with own another world. keep it a secret what is your own another world. And in a human walk, right hand strats communication with another world. Gradually, left hand, right leg, left face, starts communicationg.


1. “The red god”


1. A girl who plans an evil deed in the rain
2. Keep a face of floor throughout the whole time
3. Stick to a face of salmon as a monomaniac
4. ・A stuffed Spring
5. ・A nest of forest, a nest of eyes, a moth which is put on a wood plate

6. ・A vaporized caramel artisan or the Christ which is drawn as a picture of samurai in combat
7. ・A fine spider’s thread which runs on the forehead
8. ・A beggar
9. ・The lower back of the cat
10. ・Another world behind this world
11. ・A garbage disposal place
12. ・When I rubbed a mirror, there was a swaying shadows of flower
13. ・A fragile sound collapsed in a storage barn
14. ・A can factory

15. ・Regenerate a reduction by X
16. ・Behind the mirror

Read "The Butoh" about the Quiet house


4 May, 2010

Stuffed Spring

Long term students started to guide the process from the morning conditioning to reseaching this week. The process of becoming midwife has begun. Monika guided us to "The stuffed Spring" world through various conditioning. It is the main constellation of butoh score for "Qiet house" by Hijikata.
The Spring is a simbol of fresh life in the daily world, full of flowers, buds are growing up, and buterflies are dancing. But in Hijikata's butoh world, everything in the Spring becomes dry and dead stuffed. This is one of the most essential world image of Hijikata Butoh. We practice in this constellation through whole day.


1. “The red god”


1. A girl who plans an evil deed in the rain
2. Keep a face of floor throughout the whole time
3. Stick to a face of salmon as a monomaniac
4. ・
A stuffed Spring
5. ・A nest of forest, a nest of eyes, a moth which is put on a wood plate
6. ・A vaporized caramel artisan or the Christ which is drawn as a picture of samurai in combat
7. ・A fine spider’s thread which runs on the forehead
8. ・A beggar
9. ・The lower back of the cat
10. ・Another world behind this world
11. ・A garbage disposal place
12. ・When I rubbed a mirror, there was a swaying shadows of flower
13. ・A fragile sound collapsed in a storage barn
14. ・A can factory
15. ・Regenerate a reduction by X
16. ・Behind the mirror

Read "The Butoh" about the Quiet house


Subbodies in the Himalayan forest
1May, 2010

Increasing the number of dimension

Last week, student's subbodies have increased the numbers of dimensions which the subbodies interacting with. I could see that they wore many other dimensions arround the subbodies.
Off course the dimensions are invisivle, but when we could stop daily mind, we can listen in it so transparently.
This is the most essential technique of Hijikata Butoh. Though nobody knows.

Last week we learned Jo-ha-Kyu of bug's walk in various ways. And in the weekend we brought the subbodies into the forest. They met variations of constellation.
Himalayan forest has 45 degrees hard slope and varieties of land scape which we have never met in the city. It makes our subbodies warped, slipped, twisted, pressed, and so many unexpected effects. Our life response against them withnecessary reverse warped movements. It has real Jo-Ha-Kyu timing.
If we got the real micro Jo-ha-kyu of life when the life responses as reverse warp against the warped qualia, we have the posibility to resonante necessarily with all lives.