Kugutsu body

 Kugutsu body

 

The essence of the Kugutsu body

 

1. Being controlled by someone

Research the Qualia not moving by your will but your body is moved or controlled by someone.

Not being moved various parts at once, but only one part is moved by someone. Sometimes the unexpected part is moved to an unexpected direction.

 

2. The medium of the other world

Kugutsu is a medium to carry a specific message of the other world. Kugutsu body stands on the edge between this world and the other world and carries the hidden message quietly.

 

3. Zanshin (Reverberation or Remaining echo)

After a part of the body is moved, when it stops, subtle vibration has remained like a reverberation or echo. The size of it depends on the rigidity of the material of the Kugutsu body; metal, wood, plastic, elastic, stone and so on. The scale and time of the reverberation are different according to the rigidity of the material.

It occurs from your deep layer muscle of the spine. To control it is the hidden technique of Kugutsu body.

 

 

Kugutsu--medium of another world

 

Kugutsu is a human-shaped like a doll or puppet, but not only the doll or puppet.

Kugutsu is a transformed body of the Shisha (the dead); it is a medium to carry a deep message of the other world. The message of nature, or super nature; sadness against the destroying the resonance of nature, anger against the foolishness of human, and so on. Kugutsu body carries the hidden message quietly.

 

Stone walk

 

The stone body is the basis of the Kugutsu body.

1. Contract your bottom, and carry the solid body quietly.

2. Tightrope walk--Step the tightrope by using only the first toe, first tow ball, and heel, Step down the rope tightly without side swaying.

 

Mountain walk

 

Imagine that your Gravity center is below five-meter underground. Carry the very heavy gravity center as a Himalayan mountain, with the message from the mountain to the human.

 

Kugutsu--carrying the deep message of behind world

 

You become a medium of the behind the world. Various deep messages will visit your body, a secret smile, a hidden crying of nature, and so on. Just carry them quietly without intention. Why Kugutsu? Listen to the necessary why do you need to be Kugutsu in the big circulation between nature and human activities.

 

Qualia of being forced, being controlled

 

Not you, but someone moves you. Remember the Qualia of unable to move, hard to move, forced to move, and controlled to move. The move your deep layers muscles (=Hidden muscles), Hidden joints. Try to move without using surface muscles and human feeling.

The movement was called 'Belmer' in Hijikata's Butoh score.

 

Humanoid

 

Kugutsu has another aspect. The humanoid body can show the real shape of contemporary human.

Humanoid is the same movement as human, without the human mind, emotion. You can show it in extreme slow-motion. In this case, the Humanoid body is not medium, but itself a symbol of the deep sadness. Exactly, the medium and itself is not distinctive, they muddled and become oneness.

 

 

Cracked faces, eating roots

 

Letter from Cambodia

I visited Angkor Vat, Angkor Tom, and some temples around. I met many cracked faces of stone statues, but they still continue the smiles of compassion beyond the time. May our dancing keep a moment which was crystallized beyond time like this?

I found that Buddhism as the thought was an origin of the thought of life resonance.

And surprisingly so many roots of trees spread into stone structures of the temple. It seems moving trees eating human structures. They are teachers of opening another dimension.