Life Resonance Himalaya

Doushin Butoh Experience: One Day Butoh Workshop with Gadu Doushin *** In compliance with CDC guidelines regarding coronavirus prevention, we are continuing our Doushin Butoh Experience on Zoom. *** This one day Butoh workshop is for those want a first-time experience of Doushin Butoh.  The essence of Doushin Butoh is “resonance,” that is experience beyond idea or concept that can only be felt. In this class, the students are guided in simple repetit ive movements that we call “conditioning.” As students you will be guided into a movement meditation and experience the connection between your body, mind and the universe.    This workshop requires no previous dance experience.  Anyone who would like to e xplore his or her hidden creative potentials is welcome!  When:  Thursday, March 25th, 6:30 - 8:00pm           Where:  Zoom (You will receive login information after you register) Tuition:  $20 To Re...

 

 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 a...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Ykt9psJZY 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 n...

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOV8FxOxuzY 21.   The necessity of the Weakened body                The weakened body was the necessity to dance with his dead sister and become oneness with her. By the previous Butoh style of Ankoku Butoh and the legendary solo performance of “Revolt of the body (Nikutai no hanran)” (1968), he could not resonate with his dead sister. He breeds his dead sister in his darkness of body and spent long years with her.               One night, his dead sister visited his dream and whispered to him “Kunio chan (Kunio is his real name), you could perform dynamically and expressed yourself heroically. But, please once stop it, and we could be oneness.”  He invented a weakened body by throwing away all gross dynamic dance techniques and became like a near-death body that lost all vitality of a healthy body. “H...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrcxkyAwyXw 7. Weakened Body               Weakened Body is the last stage of  the b utoh - body  of  Tatsumi Hijikata. In 1968, he performed "Revolt of the Body (Nikutai no Hanran)" as his solo Butoh dance. He performed with changing so many aggressive dance styles. He attacked the audience with surprising at, with changing from a dance style to another style; finally, he flied away in the space with hanged by strings. Some of his students imitated this performing style. But he stopped this style at all after this year, and he shifted into the investigation in the weakened body. it was the last stage of his creation of Butoh. He performed this weakened body at the early half of the 1970s in several Butoh pieces as his solo, and 1973 he stopped to perform by himself at the last performance;  "The Quiet House" .         ...