Butoh Dictionary

This is Shadowbody exercise in the development of presence, involving 10,000 duplicates or 10,000 parallel worlds of one's self. In each world, each of you follow the exact stillness or movement you are currently engaged in. Essentially, one has an army of 10,000 reinforcing one's every movement.

That is the first part of the exercise. The second part of the exercise calls for a signal so that the 10,000 of the dancers instantaneously absorb themselves into the 3d body.

When the eye is half closed and half open so that one sees darkness above and light below. It can come attached with the concept of 50% inside and 50% outside.

Concept used in Rhizome Lee's Subbody method called 50% inside, 50% outside emphasizing the practice that 50% of our attention is to be internal and the other 50% external. This way, we are not neglecting neither outside world nor inside world.

To the pupil of Jersey Grotowski, Stephen Wangh, the 50/50 concept is the third paradox of acting.

A Subbody model from Rhizome Lee, who organizes varying qualias into eight channels: (1) Body, (2) Movement; (3) Visual; (4) Audio; (5) Emotion; (6) Human Relationship; (7) World = Self; (8) Thinking—each with introvert and extrovert qualities.

Channels interact and overlap: sensations, emotions, or movements in one can provoke or bleed into another, creating multi-resonant, dimensional experience.

The Body channel includes physical sensations; Movement covers patterns like sway, vibration, or collapse; Visual and Audio encompass perception and sound, while Emotion relates to inner “weather.” Human Relationship addresses interaction and co-body experiences, World = Self unites identity and environment, and Thinking involves logic, judgment, and koan-like collapses.

The center of the model is the non-dual zone which blends all channels, dissolving distinctions.