Ten years anniversary of Fukushima 3.11 Butoh dances the Shisha in resonance.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-Nj3b460Y

28. Becoming Shisha which transforms infinitely

 

              Hijikata's solo of "Quiet House" is performed by the Weakened body throughout the whole time. It is not only the well-known 'desperately standing corpse (dead body)' as people regard as the basic butoh body which moves slowly, but it is "The Shisha" which transforms quietly yet infinitely.
The following words which Hijikata wrote by his blood with the title of "Important" are neither understood nor taken over by a few students of him. I have never seen any butoh dancer who became 'Shisha' except for Hijikata.

Important

“Shisha transform their shapes quietly yet infinitely. It is not rare that they borrow the shapes of things on the earth with unexpected nonchalance.”

It is necessary to become　'Shisha' what we dig the darkness of body infinitely, with experiencing all conditions of Life between Hell and Heaven. 'Shisha' does not belong in modern concept, but belong in the animistic world which human has experienced for seven millions of years history. In the ancient animism world, everything is transforming infinitely. In the ancient Buddhism world, it is regarded there are three thousand worlds, and Shisha travels all of those different worlds.
In the ancient Japanese animism world, also eight million kinds of spirits are living in the non-dual and multi-dimensional worlds.
             

How is it able to become Shisha? We need to take off narrow modern humanistic intelligence and to become Life. Please start to see the pictures above, and feel subtle shivering of your Life. Not receiving them as the information, but accept them with subtle Life resonance; with prototypical emotions and subtle inner motions as shivering, fear, or awe and so on.

The butoh of Life starts from those of primitive response of Life.

To get it or not will be your turning point to start digging into the tunnels toward the Abyss of Life. In that realm of Abyss (bottomless depth), we will be aware of the oneness of the Shisha and the Red God.

It is 'the Hidden logic world before the division of the Self and Others' which Hijikata demanded all butoh dancers to enter, as the fetus and the womb. The Shisha and the Red God are the metaphors of non-dual and multi-dimensional resonance of Life.

Our daily body and mind could not resonate with the infinite world of Life and Death including all kinds of miseries, disasters, wars, mutations of bodies, handicapped, and so on. But when we take off the illusion of 'the Human', we can recover the infinite resonativity (= resonance ability) with all of them as Life.

The practice of butoh is just to travel infinitely among these behind worlds with vaporizing and materializing technique until you meet your own Abyss where the reason why you need to dance is hidden.