Choreography: Helen Thorsen
Dancers: Mary Cutrera, Helen Thorsen
Sound Score: Noise Poet Nobody
Filmed at the Seattle Butoh Festival
Supported by: Shunpike, 4Culture
Tag Archives: the stunning Mary Cutrera
Don’t Eat the Frankin Fish
OPENNESS By Adyashanti
“Openness has no particular location. It seems to be everywhere. It has room for anything. There can be a thought or no thought. There can be a feeling or no feeling. There can be sounds. There can be silence. Nothing disturbs openness. Nothing disturbs your true nature. We only get disturbed when… we go into opposition against what’s happening.
Who Am I?
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This simple yet profound question, “Who Am I?” can then reveal one’s self not to be the endless tyranny of the ego-personality, but objectless Freedom of Being- Primordial Consciousness in which all states and all objects come and go as manifestatons of the Eternal Unborn Self that YOU ARE. Adyashanti
Evening of Butoh and Live Sound Taoist Studies Institute 7:30 225 N 70th
Fringe
I Stand Alone
A Falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.
Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,
they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,
the spider’s web is ready.Heaven’s ways include the human:
among the sorrows, I stand alone.
Tu Fu 712-770
Training Notes
The human shape is a ghost
made of distraction and pain.
Sometimes pure light, sometimes cruel,
trying wildly to open,
this image tightly held within itself.
Training Notes
In butoh you can experience a state of mind that is free and clear of doubt. An unwavering mind unswayed by the ups and downs of fear, and you can glimpse a spark of unconditional acceptance and presence. There is no hesitation only honesty. The results of being present allows you the energy for performance. In Buddhism this energy is called Windhorse- discipline and delight becomes effortless and splendid. The Wind principle is energy of presence strong, exuberant, and brilliant! Horse principle is the letting go that results in radical acceptance of your self, and this moment exactly the way it is.. This gives butoh it’s shimmer and deep power. This writing is paraphrased from Chogyam Trungpa’s wonderful writing on letting go
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