長岡ゆり Yuri Nagaoka Dance Medium

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舞踏家インタビュー企画第一弾は、正朔へのインタビューです。
「舞踏と技術」というテーマで語ってもらいました。

Today I'd like to introduce my idea of Butoh dance.
Though it's my idea, I took it from many different experiences from past performances, books and people.

That came from different people whom I met before and ideas from traditional techniques of physical training such as ballet, Noh, Noguchi Seitai, Noguchi Gymnastics, Taichi, Yoga and so on. Also from books by great leaders.

I haven't learnt Butoh under Tatumi Hijikata who was the father of Butoh dance.
But I learned Butoh from his student called Seisaku for 8 years.
Before I met him, I learned myself by joining Butoh workshop sometimes from Butoh dancers and by seeing the Butoh performances.
Though I did many Butoh performances in Japan and overseas and got good critics, I'm not satisfied.

" What is Butoh dance? Why I do Butoh dance? Why I did stop ballet and came into Butoh ?"
That question has been staying in my mind for long time though I was happy to make performances.

Then I started to learn Butoh with getting back to original intention.
It was so exciting to learn Butoh ideas.
But at the same time it was very difficult.
Because I had to find the basic idea of Butoh " To be empty" with my body.
That's very simple and popular idea from long time ago, but really difficult to understand by the body itself.
It relates closely with psychological things to be empty is.
Also in the beginning, I had to forget the technique and ideas that I learned before.
In another words, I needed to forget everything that I believed myself is!
It took a long time my body to get the idea, but now I'm starting to understand it.

The idea like this.
I think Butoh is not one style of the dance, but presentation of the way to live or how to be.
We have been educated how to think and behave in our society since we were born, but is that the truth?
Isn't 'that for to live easy to control by the society that we are living?
That kind of education system is squeezing life from us while we are living.
Brain that be educated controlled mind and body.
So we have to have neutral condition the first of all like a baby.

Why do we have to have neutral condition to be empty?
Because an empty body can have everything.
If we have some special things like our own emotion or thought, audiences can see only that.
But if we have a empty body, they can see everything they want see.
I think we should be something belongs to audiences when we are on stage.
In another words, I want be a medium that combines audiences and something bigger.
If I hold or stick to my thought or emotions, nothing comes to me.
Audiences only can see me.
That is not my way.

Butoh method has many effective method to be empty, to make the space bigger and to be everything.

So now I know what I have to try and do for my dance.

　観客のみなさん、にこにこして帰っていったようでそれがなにより嬉しいですね。
面白かったからとおひねりまで下さった人もいてなんだか芸人になった気分です。

何もない空間なのに、背景がフルカラーで見える、途中は笑えるけど最後切ない気分になる、「傷だらけの天使」（知ってるかなあ、若い人達、ショーケンと水谷豊のコンビがサイコーだった）の雰囲気を思い出した、等々嬉しい感想ありがとうございました！
　
それにしても紙田さんとのデュオは楽しかった。テレパシーで互いに反応し合っているので打ち合わせ通りでなくとも「あー、こうきたな」「じゃあこれでどうよ」と無言で互いに変化球投げ合っても成立するところが楽である。

二日目の途中、なかなか音が入らないので何度も合図を出してもまだ入らずに、思わずマジ顔になり怒りを表わしてしまい、踊りの流れが切れてどうやらそこからシリアスモードになったような感じではあるが、それはそれでよかったようで。
音響の正朔氏によると、「あれじゃあ音が入れられない。音なくても十分成立していた」ということなのだが、こっちは入るものと思って即興の流れを一応計算しているのでふつうにイライラ。音響に任せるってことに初めからなってるならそれはそれでいいんだけど、動きの進行で決めてたわけだからね。
昨日とは違う作品だと思うことにしよう。
相当印象が違っていたと思う。
マジ顔になってから軽ーい気分が一気にシリアスになったってのもまあ人間らしいと言えばいえるのでしょうね。

初日を見た人は「笑ったー」と言うし、二日目を見た人は「泣き叫んだ」と言うし、 やはり舞台は一回性のものですね。

でもでも終わった、楽しかった。

見に来て下さった方々、本当にどうもありがとうございました！！

一日目
浮浪雲とオカメ

二日目
脳梅毒女郎心中
阿部定と吉

だそうです。やはり重さが随分違いますね。