16. “My Mother” A Quest to the Fetus world

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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 in the womb. In order to return to the original state of Life, we can enter the fetus realm exploring the darkness of the body. Ohno also said that

"There are neither men nor women in the fetus.”

              Both Hijikata and Ohno danced infinite sexualities. They danced a girl, a witch. Danced gay, danced Sadism and an asexual fetus. Ohno who woke up from the original sleep went back to the fetal path. Continue to wander the fetus world by attaching things like folklore to the body. It was the movement of a kind of angels that can be done for the first time in a 75-year-old body.

Hijikata suggested him to use a small table as a symbol of Kazuo's mother. Kazuo danced a variety of relationships with the table=mother. Held the mother, got on the mother, carried the mother and fucked the mother.

However, during the dancing, Kazuo became the mother itself or a dead mother possessed him.

Possession is also a Life Resonance phenomenon; Resonance has no subject or object. It just happens from both sides spontaneously. A perfect possession was realized in the dance.

Through dancing both of the big Anima; Argentina and Mother, he could complete the long dance life which these

two must inevitably dance; Kazuo Ohno was freed from something.

It can be said that we have perfected the Jo-Ha-Kyu of his life by this creation.

Continuing dancing with the body borrowed from eternal Life, he could finally return his body that 100 years borrowed, to the Life with the interest of this creation. He went back to Life itself without a single point of regret.

There is nothing like this wonderful Life.