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Nario Gohda (Commentator of Dance)
BUTOH-FU Is a Language to Open the Door to the World Latent in the Body
BUTOH-FU
is a method to make you notice how to look at your body. Mysterious words
of BUTOH-FU take readers down to the world of imagination in the body, a
level which is deeper than that usually used for walking and talking. The
time for making the body pass back and forth between the words and techniques
of the BUTOH-FU is important. BUTOH-FU would not have a meaning if one just
copied the techniques as an answer led from the words. It could have a counter
effect. The moment he thinks he understands it, the øsubjectÓ which goes
back and forth between the words and techniques disappears. Todays dance
lacks such øsubject.Ó If I said øprocess is dance,Ó I could be trapped into
øteachingÓ the process itself. It is important to make one grasp the process
subjectively. In order to open doors in the body in many ways, words can
be means to imagine and perceive such things, and spread and fold ones
body. Rather than just passing down Hijikatas sense, spending time to face
ones own life and to understand ones body is important. Once it is done,
one can perceive how wind blows, from where light comes to the body and
create all such kind of things by himself. Even choreography might be unnecessary.
Hijikata was probably dreaming about it, and BUTOH-FU tried to pass that
on.Body Drawing in, Body Absorbing
Hijikata thought that a body should not be pushed forward, but be pulled back. In 1970, he said ¥Hangi Daitohkan. A roasted sacrificed body. Its surface is charcoal. The charcoal is jet black and absorbs all light. Beyond its absorbing black is a place where a viewer feels like being drawn in. That is beautiful. Whatever that absorbs is beautiful. The beauty which one has something drawing as a capacity inside the body. Charcoal having a shape and a kind of skin texture on which people gazed. Only drawing and absorbing are the great paragon of BUTOH. What is expressed is what is seen as a result, and it should not be something that a dancer tries to display. A dancer should concentrate on absorbing. There is an existence which is the material and at the same time the subject.
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