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<Becoming> and <Reduction by X and regeneration>

<Becoming> in Hijikata Butoh

<Becoming> is a fundamental of Butoh.
<Reduction by X and regeneration> is the most universal method for <Becoming>. Tatsumi Hijikata wrote it a lot in his last solo Butoh score "Quiet House".

“Becoming a girl.
Becoming a stuffed spring.

Becoming a behind world.
Becoming a Shisha(Dead) that is able to transform to everything infinitely.

Becoming a mad man=child=beast.
Becoming a vaporized body.
Becoming a chimera.
...and so on.”


Each sentence of the score is the variation of becoming.
And he uses the technique of <Reduction by X> in each becoming.
Reduction by X means to reduce an element from the normal human body. 
X can be anything, then it is the universal transformation method to become everything in the Universe.
For example...
“Becoming a girl means to reduce sexuality and age from his human body.
Becoming a stuffed spring means to reduce Life from every living being.
Becoming a behind world means to reduce all visible physicality from the daily being.
Becoming a Shisha means to reduce Life from a living being.
Becoming mad man=child=east means to reduce sanity, age, humanity from your body.
Becoming a vaporized body means to reduce all physicality from the human physical body.
Becoming a chimera means to reduce your identity and totality of your body, and each part of the body transform to various beings.” 
I can continue this till the last sentence, but the other parts, you can do it by yourself.

<Becoming> in "Thousand Plateaus"

Gille Deleuze and Felix Guattari wrote the book together.
Also in this book, there are full of Becoming.
The main thing is Becoming Rhizome which is able to connect freely and separate flexibly at any part of it.
The rhizome is also multiple transformation state of us.
We are bound by so many restrictions as a modern human being. To release from all of them and become a completely free being is the Rhizome.
A rhizome is a sprouting form of future of human being.
Let's see the many becoming in the book.
For becoming Rhizome, it needs so many examples.
Because Rhizome is a manifold, and manifold has so many entrances.

“Becoming a Rhizome.
Becoming a wolf.
Becoming a herd.
Becoming an anomaly.
Becoming an animal.
Becoming a child.
Becoming a woman.
Becoming a manifold.
Becoming a molecule.
Becoming something that is not able to recognize.”

You can see the surprising similarity with Hijikata Butoh. And also we can understand that they use the same method as <Reduction by X> to become those being.
Becoming Rhizome means to reduce Tree(=dualistic thinking and hierarchical order of human society) from daily human being which is bound by those restrictions.
Becoming a wolf means to reduce your humanistic personality from you and remind your wildness. A wolf is a herd itself, they can be alone and a herd flexibly.
Becoming a herd means to reduce the illusion of modern individuality from your being, and remind that we are a cobody as Life.
All of them are to becoming a minority, not becoming a majority.
It is a common characteristic of both of Hijikata and Deleuze=Guattri.
We do not become a man, not becoming a General.
Because it is to back to the Tree based on the hierarchical order.
We do not become a teacher, not become a fixed leader.
Because it supports the Tree system that is out of date.
Becoming manifold is the same as <Becoming Chimera> in Hijikata.
Becoming something that is not able to recognize is also the same as <Becoming Behind world> and <Becoming Shisha> in Hijikata.
They had never contact, but the universal Life Resonance around 1968, brought them to the same horizon.
This was the miracle of Life Resonance.
A similar Life Resonance must occur again in the near future.
Because everyone living in modern times is influenced by the rapid inflation of higher information technology, and Life is eroded on the first scale in human history.


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