Life Resonance Himalaya

                                 Doushin Butoh Experience: One Day Butoh Workshop with Gadu Doushin *** In compliance with CDC guidelines regarding coronavirus prevention, we are continuing our Doushin Butoh Experience on Zoom. *** This one day Butoh workshop is for those want a first-time experience of Doushin Butoh.  The essence of Doushin Butoh is “resonance,” that is experience beyond idea or concept that can only be felt. In this class, the students are guided in simple repetitive movements that we call “conditioning.” As students you will be guided into a movement  meditation and experience the connection between your body, mind and the universe.    This workshop requires no previous dance experience.  Anyone who would like to explore his or her hidden creative potentials is welcome!  When:  Tuesday, April 20th, 12: 30 - 2:00pm      ...

  Dear Readers and Butoh Friends Thank you for your interest in the Butoh Course. Unfortunately, now the coronavirus is increasing in India Himachal Pradesh. We have to wait for the resuming of the school until it will calm down. But this less communication state is a big chance to research the darkness of the body. We attach the PDF of the Practice Guide. Please study by yourself reading it. Hope to see you soon! Life Resonance Art Center 9.  The Warped Qualia One day, Hijikata Tatsumi said to his wife, "I wonder what the warped body is?"  ( Akiko Motofuji, Hijikata's wife  i n her book The memories of Hijikata Tatsumi. )               He used to make the sound at his various joints in the bed at night often. Butoh dancer digs various tunnels in the body for twenty-four hours. Hijikata grew up in the Akita prefecture where is placed at the northern edge of Japan. They have their own deep culture b...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8bCtAyRUY        13. Expansion of Human concept   Hijikata made some "Practice Butoh score" for the workshops to raise a butoh dancer of next-generation in his later years. It is his Will to the next dancers that "A size walk" and "Bugs walk" told us. Become a small cell's Life and let the body follow the demands of "A size walk" carefully. Here it is not a body that belongs to the physical world, but it is requested to become a body that resonates with another dimension, different worlds behind the daily world. Every element of the Kugutsu (puppet) body was included that we have been exploring. The revolution that Hijikata tried to do was to greatly expand the concept of human of the contemporary age. The world image of future human beings = self-image is included here.                            ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZ2Iwr1Tb8 Beginning Doushin Butoh Workshop *** In compliance with CDC guidelines regarding coronavirus prevention, we are continuing our Beginning Doushin Butoh Workshop on Zoom. *** Beginning Doushin Butoh Workshop is designed as a pre-requisite for Doushin Butoh Workshop in order to learn the basic physical methods of Subbody Butoh Method and basic meditation techniques of Spring Forest Qigong. ​​​​​​​​​ This workshop will focus on  the essential aspects of Doushin Butoh: ·    Quiet down the daily consciousness and listen to the subtle body signals ·    Go beyond our physical, psychological and social bounds in order to create movements that are novel and unique to the individual body ·    Resonate with other bodies ·    Go into meditative state using Spring Forest Qigong techniques  Doushin Butoh Workshop is a group process and this workshop requires no previous dance ex...

  We wait for the Calm down of Coronavirus to resume the School Dear Friends Due to the inereasing of coronavirus. We have to give up to open Butoh school for a while. We will inform you when we are able to resume. Until then, please read the  “Practice guide of Butoh Revolution ” and study by yourself.   Subbody Resonance Butoh Course   When : [Spring semester] 8 th  March - 28 th  May,2021 [Summer semester] 7th June ? 28 th  August, [Autumn semester] 6 th  September ? 26 th  November [Winter semester] 6 th  December ? 25 th  February 2022 Monday ? Friday 10:00-17:00 Duration : One day, One week, One month, One semester and One year course are available. Where : Life Resonance Art center Jogiwara village, Macleodganj, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India Hope to see you soon! Life Resonance Art Center   . <Application> Send e-mail with your personal information and hope. subbody[at]gmail.com Please change [at]＝@ Link to P...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC8O0FEU7Kw      Memory of Kazuo Ohno In 1949, 43 years old, you performed the first dance performance in Tokyo. When you came back from Manokwari of New Guinea,  demobilized  after one year of prison life, you decided to dance your friends who died in the Second World War; you called it "dance of the jellyfish." You wanted to dance it from the experience onboard the voyage home from New Guinea, saw off the burial at sea the people who died in malnutrition and disease, floating in the sea at that time.               Tatsumi Hijikata at 21 years old saw your first dance recital and was shocked. He called you "The Poison Dancer!" later. After the War, no modern dancer tried to dance the dead, they were hoping to the happy future, only you danced it by becoming Shisha (dead) itself. Then Hijikata resonated deeply, because also his most of sisters and brothers...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ULshtsC8G4 16. “My Mother” A Quest to the Fetus world   In 1981, four years after "La Argentina", Kazuo Ohno staged "My Mother" likewise choreography and directed by Tatsumi Hijikata. Along with Argentina, the mother was an Anime in Kazuo Ohno.               We must liberate ourselves from tough imprinting called Anima for a lifetime. It is a necessity to process to release from the mystery of sexuality and to return to Life. Hijikata started the dance from "Fetus Dream". In the past, a Japanese thought Yutaka Haniya watched the Dark black butoh and said: "It is a womb meditation." It is one of the essences of the Butoh of Life.               From usual everyday life restricted to the narrow "human" concept, we can enter the non-dual world that there is no sexuality, no border of self and others, no race and so on i...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZHhFYE_dDs 15. “La Argentina" Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata               "La Argentina" and "My Mother"​​is representative works of Kazuo Ohno. Both are by choreographing and directing Hijikata Tatsumi. It is a crystal of friendship that it is continued the cooperation of the soul of the two dancers who exchanged over 30 years. When young Hijikata came out to Tokyo around the age of 20. He was surprised at the performance of Kazuo Ohno, shouted, "He is a poison dancer!"               When Kazuo Ohno was on the way to demobilize from the battlefront in the Philippine island, many of the soldiers died on a ship and were buried into the sea. Each time the ship rang the farewell whistle with a deep sad sound. While listening to it, Ohno Kazuo decided if I could come back to Japan alive, I would dance you, through you were...