with GIO JU
SUBBODY BUTOH WORKSHOP
A DESPERATE BUTOH LEAP
"What I thought was me was like a layered coat. When the coat became too heavy to move, the body took a desperate leap. Butoh was at the edge of that leap. Body took off the coat one by one with butoh. Rolling on the edge with naked body, awakening inner layers. Finding the Universal coat. "
A desperate Butoh leap with GIO JU
Shift from daily mode to Subbody mode through various conditionings & Medi-motion
Subbody(subconscious & subtle body), where body and mind melt into one, is the ocean of infinite life history, has no concept, thought or judgment. As pure life, it resonates with everything. There is no distinction between self and other here. Just resonates by being freely connected and separated with infinite patterns.
Shift to subbody mode with various conditionings, opening
8 channels(body, movement, sound, imagination, emotion, relationship, self=worlds, awareness) introvert, extrovert. Becoming transparent body where dual boundaries are blurred. Take off self and discover many hidden selves, find unique dances from another dimensional worlds.
Medi_motion is a meditative movement that releases tension and intention from the body and mind. Through medi_motion, we connect with body, and eventually go beyond its frame.
Original Photo by Cheena Kapoor
Sink down in Subbodies
Encounter self, other and worlds
with collective womb meditation
Dance, not dance as direct expression in the narrow concept of human. Expression of existence, expansion of visible, invisible space.
The body is moved by something, someone. The body that remembers not only personal life, but also the life and death of cells, the entire earth, creation and extinction, dreams, imagination, secrets and mysteries, the laws of nature and cosmic resonance.
The body discovers new dimension of the worlds.
The dance appears by being moved by the worlds. That is dance. Subbody Butoh. Blurring the boundary between the self and the other, we encounter the most personal yet deeply collective dance of life in the cosmic womb meditation.
Expanding Body
Discovering dance of life
Exploring the space ‘in between’
We open exploring doors various dimensions through eight channels. It creates safe personal space where we can fully face to self, and group work(cobody) where we can explore relationships between various boundaries and ultimately expanding self into multi dimension.
Face the deep necessity to dance by life. Exploring the space ‘in between’(MA). In between open and close, able and disable, female and male, dark and light, living and dying, self and other….. there are space which is beyond judgements. We explore the space through body and dance, meet life as it is. Finding own secrets and mysteries by life, and bloom flowers with audience, sharing deep life necessary of dance.
Original Photo by David Joshua Jennings
Dance life Resonance
Transformation and Freedom
Secret Mystery Flower
Everything is vibrating, everything is resonance. The resonance patterns are infinite. Constantly changing, coming going, transforming. We dance the transformation exploring the infinite resonance pattern beyond intention, thoughts and concept.
Just as a part of nature and universe. Breaking through old habits of movement, body expand into the flow of transformation. And freedom. Whatever comes goes, just dance with awareness. Be transparent body.
We face how the body shows own secrets and life reveals mysteries through dance, how the deep life resonance blooms flowers with audience.
Beyond language, Qualia
Resonant body poem
Qualia is a cellular language, very personal, relative,
resonant and changing all the time. When we completely switch off thoughts, multidimensional signals that transcend time and space appear and disappear inside and outside the body. When we sense that subtle flow with body, the dance leaps into multiple dimensions. Qualia resonates everywhere
between dual and nondual. As the infinite creative source, Qualia exploring will work for all genre of arts and life.
We explore poetic body language with own poem and so rich butoh score such as ‘Quiet House‘ etc.
“What does it mean to stand up?”
Original Photo by Raul Bartolome
Original Photo by Raul Bartolome
Edge
Twist and Reverse
Edge is the end or boundary of something.
Edge is sharp and intense.
Edge is also a place that opens the space
between various divisions and boundaries.
In the space of the edge, we may struggle and
be vulnerable. If we face and accept it through
body, we will experience inevitable contact
that never encountered before.
Unique beauty will be embodied in dance.
The countless Edges within us are waiting
to be transformed with Reverse Twist
Subbody = Cobody
GROUP EXPERIMENT
Subbody Butoh, unlike other butoh, has developed a
variety of tools in cobody group resonance experiments.
Connect Separate freely in the infinite creative patterns.
This creates a space like Butoh Earth, which opens up
infinite sources of creativity not only for dance, but for
all genres of art and participants of all conditions.
When we return from the group experiment to individuals,
we will encounter multidimensional awakening of our
body's memories and relationship of self and world.
"BODY IS A DANCING PLACE"
"The body is a dancing place.
A dancing place of the hand, a dancing
place of the hip, a dancing place of behind the elbow, and so on.
The depth of this dancing place is formed
by overcoming the deep
memories (and qualia) that were caught
in each dancing place and reverse twisting them.
For example, suppose there is a house of Mr. Yanagida, and I
discover that it is a very precious thing that there is a peacock in Mr. Yanagida’s yard.
And the place called “Can Factory” is narrated by the powder that was dear to me. They become the blood of the dance."
Always Life is finely resonating with everything.
And when the resonance is increasing the density and trembling"
Chapter 16 of Quiet House by Hijikata Tatsumi
Every Fri, preparing public performance in Dharamshala
Art work by Hans bellmer
Every Fri, preparing public performance in Dharamshala
Resonant Images
In the class 2024
Short and long term Class
Creating performances
Notes and images
Resonating in the class