Butoh Dictionary

In Shadowbody, this is a portmanteau play on words "guest" and "host" that looks like "ghost" (carrying a butoh association) where deterritorialized audience/guests breaks the bounds of what typically would be known as audience. In performance art, for instance, when there is audience interaction, the audience has stepped outside of the bounds of mere observer and mixed with performer.

Like a doll’s eye, these eyes are immobile. The gaze is placed. near the horizon. Or one can form a parallel line from eye level to ground without placing attention to any particular area, but all the area in the field. One can even look at any particular point then spread the gaze to the whole scenery which is vague. The eyelids are relaxed. Pupils do not move. One tries not to blink, and if one does, let it be a subtle flash.

A Shadowbody exercise, also called suction, the participant moves with as much surface of the body suctioned to the ground or wall as possible. One can also imagine a high gravity or centrifugal force situation.

Example qualia-world: One enters the carnival ride known as Gravitron, which is a spinning space ship causing those inside to stick to the walls. Try to un-stick yourself in various ways, though it proves almost impossible.