For an Artist, our primary material is our inner world. From the material we engage with there, we blend our internal energy with the force of upward moving inspiration, connecting with material of expression...clay, dance, the voice, the body, rocks, gold, food, sound....the list is endless. If we are full of ideas about how we have to be, we're unavailable for the energy of our voice to move through us, and everybody's voice is unique, stemming from an internal impulse.
Yet sometimes we might find we can't quite grab onto the feeling of Authentic Voice moving through us, because the current of authenticity is asking us to feel anger, ugliness, annoyance, desire, frustration, aggression, or anything else our sense of self has disassociated from.
There is medicine in the courage required to be fully alive.
Here are some ideas for how to create a short but potent deliberate experience of the very emotion we're hiding from, which brings relaxation and flow because it's energetically very expensive to hold ourselves in any shape other than what's natural.
To create work that's vibrant to us and others, we want to be in the authenticity of the body.
May you be unafraid of the entirety of your inner experience, and alchemise it all in the cauldron of your practice.
An introduction to Butoh, you can look into other videos and here might be a jumping off point...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcn55T-jNE
The Aesthetics of Bhuto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUuNF_o2gM
Beauty in the Grotesque...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f6R8Ry9qVo
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