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19 September, 2010
Digging ten bodies
Ikuko and Dorjee continue to dig the darkness of body for finding ten bodies.
Dancers life is the same as mine worker, just dig and dig in the body.
With learning Hijikata's last butoh score. It is so deep and hard. But
als oit is the most happiest time for dancers to meet new subbodies in
the researching.
We need at least ten bodies to create a solo to dance whole self, hopely
twenty
bodies. We cannot have a rest at all to be a butoh dancer. Everyday we
need to open hidden joints, hidden muscles, hidden cavities, and hidden
skins. Only a few people who can continue the digging life as a miner of
the darkness of body can be a butoh dancer.
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19 September, 2010
Searching the bottom
Dorjee has not found his bottom body, then I recommend him to reseach it.
Actually, it is so hard work, then we need to find the best timing for
that.
In his first month, once he has met a sad qualia in the self reseaching, he cryed and could not move at that day. It may be full of the sad qualia in his body. Also My body was full of sadness in the twentie after many friends has died in the against Vietnum war movement. I have to walk very carefully not to spill the sadness from the body.
But, recently Dorjee seemes to be stronger than before, he started trying
to become the smallest body or slowest movement. It is the signal that
he is ready for the searching deeper toward the bottom.
To search the bottom means to meet the most miserable self who was warped
into the most collapsed shape driven until the edge of the world. And to
accept the most ugry and weakest self as one's bottom subbody. It need
a lot of courage and patience.
Anyway he has started to search it vigorously, his butoh becomes something
gruesome. Perhaps, some Tibetan spirits of the dead are going to possess
him. Or in other word, his life is going to resonate with them . From now
on, it must become harder and harder by the labor pains for him as a fetus
and womb, and also for me as a midwife.
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17 September, 2010
On the edge of Himalaya mountain
Dorjee is from Tibet, twelve years ago he moved from Tibet to India over
the snow Himalayan mountain with his mother and younger brother. I know
that the travel was so hard and dangerous. Sometimes people have died on
the way by slipped down or by shot by China soldier at the border.
The travel is on the edge between death and life.
His world qualia were "Extreme dream (unable to move)", "Laughing mother", and "Himalayan mountain".
There should be every kind of qualia between heaven and Hell in the Himalaya
mountain.
His subbody is still continuing to grow up to over one hour peice against
so many hardships. It will become his life work.
The following is his poem about Himalaya
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Snow Mountain Himalaya/ Dorjee
Snow Mountain is so big and huge.
It has so many things happen all the time.
Sometime it makes funny and strange noise
It is changing shape and growing every year
It's so great, amazing, wonderfull, and many more...
My body and soul is everything like Himalaya
Always changing and changing
never stop, never give up
very cold
very high
very sharp
very large
high up in the sky
long like river
lots of chapes
All my dances want to be like Himalaya
All my butohs want to be like snow Himalaya magic stone
Magic, magic, magic, and magic
Many many things and shapes in Himalaya mountain
Never end.
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13 September, 2010
Rusted bicycle
Eduardo from USA's world qualia are "Rusted bicycle" and "Oil
in the drain".
"Rusted bicycle" is a body feeling unable to move or hardly to
move. "Oil in the drain" is streaming slowly with being sticked
the dirt and garbages.
Both world qualia are hard and intense, they are also the edge qualia which
he had met in these two months.
The following is his feedback of two months experiences.
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"BLACK CROW KITE SINGS" Eduardo
Having already previously studied with you for one month, I had a small understanding of the concept that one world births another. Now on the end of my second month, my understanding of the principle of connectivity, that one thing leads to another, has grown ; that is extends its influence over all things.
"Black crow, Kite Sings a phrase interrupted, disturbed, and disconnected in syntax and meaning, was chosen partly for its description of the quotion I, as the performer, experienced, but also because it is a map, showing the links between one world and the next.
I want to thank you so much, Lee. The last two months have been challenging, enlightening, I have come away with not only or broad sense of movement and physical vocabulary, but on understanding as to how one can top into their own life create many new worlds in their performance and even daily life. I hope to be back soon someday. Thank you from the bottom at my heart. If you are ever in San Francisco, please let me know. Thank you.
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9 September, 2010
Dancing from the bottom
Julie from France is now studing theater in a University in Japan. She
want to learn butoh and come to Himalaya.
In the August course, we start to search own Bottom body.
"What is bottom body?" , a student asked me.
"It is the most pressed subbody body by some pressures. If you find
it, you can create your own necessary dance spreading out from it."
I answered.
Luie found her unique bottom body, and continue to dance from it.
Her world qualia were "Stillborn world", "Behind mask",
and "In the blue of absinthe".
All students shared them and created her worlds. Julie danced in those
worlds with showing various face behind daliy mask. Though only one picture
was catched by camera clearly, it was so strong.
The following is her feedback of the experiences.
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Broken dreams of flying birds/ Julie
Studying butoh at Subbody Dance School was a great experience for me. I really enjoyed having the opportunity to approach various aspects of butoh in such a short period of time.
Although it was sometimes hard, I enjoyed discovering other people's worlds and meeting different qualia.
I hope to be able to come back for a year in order to study butoh more in-depth.
Performing on Fridays was also a good experience as it is nice to have the possibility to share our worlds with other people.
Thanks for this great summer!
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7 September, 2010
Necessity of the edge work
Anjeliki from Greece's is a teacher of contemporary dance and contact improvisation,
but she said the subbody method was a big shock. In spite of that she had
read subbody method throguh the web site earnestly, there was a bug gap
between the understanding through reading and the real experience by body.
Especially, it was the first experience to stop thinking and dance through
listening in the body.
She have met so many unknown strange qualia like as a monster, hidden trauma,
memories, through the travel in the darkness of body.
Sometimes she could not move by the shock. We shared by resonance touch
together.
But, I realize now that I had to use the edge work more generally.
Because not only her, but all students have met and suffered by the edge
experiences. I realized that the edge qualia are what life cannot find
proper resonance pattern yet with. In the travel of the darkness of body
is full of edge experience.
Her own world qualia are "Untouched creature" which has not being touched and not touched by fear and danger. I felt that the origin life which was born four billion years ago must be the same condition with it. There were full of virgin qualia which life had not get proper resonance pattern with them. Also she must find the same virgin creature in her darkness of body.
She begun her dance without touching and being touched by everything carefully
and transform the guilty of wild animal. .
Thus, her new travel of creation has strated. She said," now I understand subbody method actually by body, I will share with my student in my country. In the near the day, the information of her class will be informed on the Greece column of Resonance Net on this site.
Through this Summer intensive course, I realized that the edge work is
absolutely necessary for the subbody process. I have to integrate the edge
work as one of the main part of subbody method as well as the subbody creation
method and resonance bodywork method. I have to re-integrate all of my
method including the edge work. It will be appear on my site in the near
future.
It will be called "Resonance work" as a total naming of the methods.
The following is her feedback of the experiences.
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Untouched creature/ Angeliki
The whole experience was a big shock for me, although I did practice dance for a long time and have already met butoh in my country in some workshops, this was completely different.
Incredible
beautiful and terrible at the same time. I would like to continue and work
deeper in this kind of research, but I m really happy and feel so lucky to meet
a teacher like Lee and stay with him even for such a short time. I feel like I
started to find what really is necessary for me as a dancer and a creator too,
and I truely believe that we have to discover a true reason and need to move
and dance, so we can be present 100% in a research or a performance.
I met
many difficulties inside me, not really unknown but it’s like all my monsters
come back this month to restart a war against me. Thoughts about violence, suicide and a deep
depression and despair visiting me many times and tortured me, in a way I was
expected this and to happen but not so
hard and so strong and because the last two years I am following a
psychoanalysis and meet my doctor three time in the week so I am trying to
avoid sharing and exposing myself and problems anywhere outside this office. I
just hope that someday I will understand and transform them and everything in
creation…
Thank
you so much, I hope to be here again otherwise I will try to work by myself and
my student in Greece , and always be informed by your site for your work.
Angeliki.!
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6 September, 2010
Passing through the edge
Roni from Israel's world is "Demon in the stomuch" and "Someone
is missing".
We all layed down on the floor as one connected body like as a human ocean, and she guided us that the Demons are going to come out from stomuch, the movements press us each other, and transform to a moving human mountain.
And slowly she guided us the someone is missing world. We are craving someone,
but we fell down into big disappointment, because of their absence. This
world experience brought us big emotional storms by inner demon and missing
someone. She created her dance in this hard world. Also all students shared
her world with being involved into the stormy world.
In the middle of course, she met a hard edge experience. It brought her
into difficulty of breathing. We shared through edge work by being pressed
our chest by her with the difficulty of breathing, and pressed her chest
in the same way.
After the edge work, she could face to her inner demon and missing qualia
too.
I guess it was so hard process for her, but she could pass through the
crisis somehow, and she could transformed it to the necessary creation
for her.
And in her peice, so many unexpected transparent resonances happened on
the stage among the dancers. It was so beautiful. I was moved with pleasant
surprise.
When we could take off our egos, we can be a non-dual life. We can transform
the life before the boundary between self and others comes out. The life
resonantes transparently. It is the transparent beauty which I was persued
for long yeays. Finally we did it.
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Veruchka /Roni
I had a good month in general. The first two weeks were really good. It was like going slowly in water. And the third week was really powerfull for me. I think I have solved something deep but I still don't know exactly what it was. This week (the last one) was harder, really intense. I had also some promblem at home, so it made it even more difficult. But I am glad I could share with the group and I always like to teach. I think that if every moring would have start with your conditioning it would have been easier for everyone. Going into each other's worlds requires a lot of cooperation and awareness so 30 minutes of preparation in the morning and and after lunch would help.
I am really glad that you explain us all what we are doing (with pictures of the body and movies of butoh). For me it made it more clear and practical. I remember especially your talk about the hidden muscles as a point of change for me. I think you are a really good teacher. I felt you are demanding a lot from us and giving us full attention and care. Another thing is that you feel the class. The energy between us and know how to change programs according to it. It a special time here, it opened a lot of deep cells inside me that i will deal with for a long time. You have built a special place with very good environment (and good food). That made me feel like coming again every morning allthough I knew it will be hard.
Thank you for the opportunity to search, find and create. If I'll have more thoughts I will send an email. I really appreciate your way and teachings and glad I have been here.
See you soon.
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Please join in and enjoy life resonance!
Resonance work is to open resonance of life which our we have forgotten.
Contains:
Resonance creation work
Resonance body touch work
Resonance edge work
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Resonance Workshop
13 Mon-17 Fri September, 2010
AM10:00-PM5:00
Fee: 3000 RS
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Workshop will be continued every week
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4 September, 2010
Breathe escape /Georgia
In the last week of August, students shared own world by cobody group movement,
and tried to integrate all subbodies and cobodies.
Georgia from Greece's world is "Prison in the cocoon" and "Escape
from breath". This cocoon is not physical. but imaginary world in
her darkness of body. It is full of sadness, pain, lonliness, and anger.
It might be qualia of her society.
We shared her wrold and become the prison world by cobody movement.
She tried to escape from the cocoon. But aftre the first trial, she cried
" I could not escape from the cocoon!" Because she met realy
strong bind of the prison. She met her necessary world where she need to
dance. It mayl take time for long year, but it is worth to try for many
times.
After dancing, she said only one word, "breathe".
Maybe she got some awareness of breathing through the experience.
She named this peice "Breathe escape".
Through these processes we can give each other the richest condition by
cobody movement for each subbody's creation.
The following is her feedback of one month process.
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Breathe escape/ Georgia
My first thought was to send my words by e mail as I feel that I need time
after this workshop to “see” things.
But, I decided to write sitting in your
chair listening the river and having in front of me the mountains.
I have been touched through this process.
Sometimes this was hard but when you go deep is always hard. My body has a lot
of memories my soul more. Meeting pain is really hard and more difficult is
when different world are met. How many huge and tiny world in the body..!!
Breathe Escape is the title of my dance, and the reality of my life...probably...
Leaving from Greece to special friends and
old women wished me for this trip to run like water, while emptying a pot of
water behind me..
I think that this trip run like water
sometimes calm and other strong like waterfalls..
It was really difficult to reduce daily
body, daily thought and so on. It was really painful meeting to subbody.
I feel like my body has been for a month to
surface where lives and shapes were curved.
While many different earthquakes were
happening at the same time.
Leaving from India mean for me that I carry a different body. I have with me secrets things...in the hidden skin and the hidden joints.
Thank you lee, for the Breath Escape..!
Georgia.
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