6. Deepening the Butoh

 

6. Deepening the Butoh

What is the deepening of Butoh?

When you continued researching in the darkness of the body by finding various tunnels of travel, and enter the creating process further, it is the timing to share what the real creation is to deepen farther from basic practice.

The deepening process is the following;

 

1. Infinite segmenting

In the basic conditioning and researching, we learned simple and gross Qualia; stone, ash, liquid, vapor, creature, animal, plant, human, humanoid, kugutsu, hidden body and so on. It has simple movement and transformation as the vibration, sway, wave, shock, collapse, die, and so on.

The advanced stage of it, we try to segment them into small parts and proceed it into the infinite level.

Segmenting of the body;

We segment a total body into various parts, and details. And each part of them we let resonate with diverse Qualia.

We try to control our body at the whole-body level, a part of it, and the detail. In each level, we try to resonate with various Qualia of behind worlds. Finally, until our body becomes a multi-resonating Chimera body where various parts and details transform into various being.

Segmenting of the eye;

Normal daily eye- rotten eye- a nest of the eye- compound eye, participating in the skin- Hidden skin=the third eye

Segmenting of nerve;

Daily sensing and moving nerve- nerve about each part of the body- nerve about the detail of parts- nerve about body fluid conditions- nerve about hidden memories of each part of cells

A segment of each channel;

Like the above, try to segment each channel; body feeling, movement, visual, audio, emotion, relationship, and world=self channel

 

2. Infinite Multi-layering

We have twelve kinds of conditioning methods. To mix each conditioning and develop it into multi-layered resonance is required for deepening.

Conditioning 0: Breathing,

1: Vibration,

2: Sway,

3: Three-dimensional Wave,

4: Proto body and Vaporized body conditioning,

5: five Hidden Qualia-hidden joints, hidden muscles, hidden cavities, hidden fluid, hidden skins,

6: Six sways- vibration, sway, wave, shock, collapse, and die

7: Seven Rhizoming: Bottom rhizoming, Top rhizoming, Behind rhizoming, Front rhizoming, Inner rhizoming, Outer rhizoming, and Time rhizoming

8: Eight channels: Body feeling, Movement, Visual, Audio, Emotion, Human relationship, World=Self, and Thinking channel

9: Segmenting conditioning

10: Twelve Meridians conditioning

11: Cobody conditioning- Resonance touch, Resonance Shiatsu and so on.

We can create various multiple resonances by mixing some of that conditioning and researching.

The daily body can open only one channel at the same time.

When we stop daily thinking, we can listen to the diverse Qualia which our Life resonates with multi-dimensional Qualia at the same moment.

By this multi-layering, we can get the BPD-W method of Hijikata which is able to control the four levels of the Body, Part, Detail and Behind World.

When the outer (=physical) Qualia and inner (=memorial) Qualia become one, it changes from mere movement to Butoh dance.

Through developing this multi-layering, we can transform into Multi-resonance Chimera body. Life is Chimera which resonates with diverse Qualia of multi-dimension at the same time. We can call it by another name; 'Calabi-Yau Resonance body' as the string of The String theory of physics has infinite resonance patterns.

 

3. Originating

Through the infinite segmenting and multi-layering, we travel deeper and deeper into our darkness of body. We pass through the first level of novel Qualia, via. the second level of finding deep Qualia and finally until we will encounter the necessary creation for living. The necessary dance has own unique Flower, Secret, and Mystery.

The Flower can bloom based on the own Secret and Mystery which even ourselves do not understand.

We need to deepen our subbody=cobody Butoh dance by repeating practice and polishing it. It grows up through many times performing in front of an audience. At the performance, we can get 'Resonance Riken (=distant) eyes' how to resonate with the world.

Through them, our creation becomes an open treasure of Life.

 

4. Return the creation of Life

The creation means to invent a novel resonance pattern of Qualia which does not exist yet.

If creation is a real creation, it belongs to neither Ego nor Self. Because the true creator is Life.

Life has already infinite Qualia through the four billion years of Life history. We receive all of them at each cell, and we try to find new resonance patterns of them by using them in the limited conditions.

We return our creation to the Life through performance or through midwifing which supports other's creation by giving workshops.

We return our finding of new resonance pattern of Qualia, and the treasure of Life Resonance pattern becomes a little bit richer. Even with using a disabled body or warped mentality, we can change it into a novel beauty. Then some of Life can be encouraged, "oh, we can live as a creator with this disabled body or twisted mind."

We will die as an individual being, but we return into the Life as our creation lives in the huge Life Tide.

This is the Butoh of Life.

Do you know why it is neither ego expression, nor self-expression?

Though, still many people are bound by the modern concept of Art.