1. What is Transparency?

 1. What is Transparency?

 What is Transparency?

 Transparency means not being bound by outside.

Transparency means not being bound by inside.

Transparency means not being bound by anything.

Listen to inside 50%, outside 50%.
Keep this balance exactly to be transparent. Transparency means not being bound by anything, not bound by internal elements and external elements, and we can become Transparent Life. The word of inside and outside is tricky, it changes always depend on the focusing condition.

Subbody mode
For example, when you are subbody mode, inside means inner Qualia; feeling, emotion, desire, memory, imagination and so on, outside means present physical resonance with the environment.

Cobody mode
When we are cobody mode, the outside becomes a friend’s movement and inside becomes yourself.

Subbody=Cobody mode
In the performance, the outside becomes the audience and inside becomes the dancers. Performance is the training chance to challenge to be transparent Life in the world. In the performance, we tend to be bound by the word of “Showing”. This word is bound by the daily dualistic illusion. Daily mind=body is bound by the dualistic human illusion of <self and others>, inside is separated firmly from outside, and we are bound by the pressure, “I have to show myself to outside.” But, this word “show” is a dualistic illusion, “I” show something. In the real aspect of Life, there is just Life Resonance> In the resonance, there is no subject, no object, it happens from both side. But, the daily body is bound by the illusion of “I” as the subject, and regard the others as the object. We need to take off all of these illusions to become the Transparent Life. All of us are One Life and performance is the field to share the best of each.

Not being bound by anything
Transparency means not being bound by anything.
It means not bound by yourself, not by the group and not by the audience and the world.

 

There are some useful techniques.

Steal the steps
Not bound by “I”, ego, self, all inner Qualia; feeling, emotion, desire and so on. Zeami said, “Steal the steps”. When you do a strong step or big movement, you steal the sound of steps. Then you can keep the transparent balance. When you want to shout, do it as the “silent shout”, then you are not bound by the emotion. 

Half carrying a secret, half co-create the total Jo-Ha-kyu
When you co-create a cobody piece that your friend initiates, half you co-create the total Jo-Ha-Kyu with finding best timing and spacing, and at the same time always you carry your own secret. Then whole time becomes pure creation.

 

Real-time Resonance
Not bound by the group totally. Even if you confirmed the Jo-ha-Kyu development with the meeting of group rehearsal, always everyone research the best MA of timing and spacing, and if you find novel resonance pattern, immediately follow it even it is out of confirmation in the meeting. Then Jo-Ha-kyu will be co-created in the real-time Life Resonance.

Riken (Distant) eye
In the performance, if you are afraid of the critical eye of the audience,
swallow it as your Riken (distant) eye. And you can see yourself always and able to find the best MA and resonance pattern. What you afraid audience eye means wants of your own Riken (Distant) eye by yourself.

Multiple Life Resonance
Actually, we are living in the multiple resonance world of the Qualia. 
All dualistic judgment and hierarchy are the human illusion.
Become Life!

Become the Transparent Life which is not by anything!
Become Rhizome!
Become a Secret!

 

Support the world, in the struggle between you and the world

Frantz Kafka said,

“Usually, I solve the problems by letting them devour me.”
“Support the world, in the struggle between you and the world.”

Normally we are bound by consideration about self. But, consider equally self and the world is Transparency, too.

We found a novel subbody=cobody method to dance with becoming the world with learning Kafka and Hijikata.

1. Research the strangest Qualia of the world transformation and ooze you, invade you, devour you. 
2. Find the best place where you are attacked by the world Qualia. And co-create the world cobody with unique Jo-Ha-Kyu development, in the building or nature.
3. Invite a friend to the place, and approach him or her as the world cobody with Unique Jo-Ha-Kyu. 
Through this method, we can become a world which seems to attack you.
It is the way to support the world in the struggle between you and the world as Kafka and Hijikata said.
This is the process to become another being to cast off the previous you. We can become transparent Rhizome or Shisha that is able to transform to anything infinitely.

Hijikata wrote a lot of experiences to be eaten by the world in various ways in the “Sick Dancing Princess”.

“A body that continued to be eaten by the world, till lost the outline.”

Also in the “Bugs walk”, 

“Bugs eat your body voraciously and eat the outer space.”

 
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