Atsushi Takenouchi - JINEN BUTOH /

Atsushi TAKENOUCHI Jinen Butoh

Thousand drops, thousand flowers

Thousand drops falling from the sky, Mother Earth, please,
embrace these drops, give birth to thousand flowers.

Thousand drops, thousand flowers

Thousand drops falling from the sky, Mother Earth, please,
embrace these drops, give birth to thousand flowers.

I close may eyes, and take a deep breath… I feel my living body. I am deeply grateful for being alive now.
On 11th of March 2011, many people have suffered and lost their lives in Japan’s Tohoku region earthquake.

At that time I was in Japan.
If the earthquake epicenter was not in Tohoku, but in Osaka- Kyoto region, I could be in those people place. When I felt this, a thought flashed in m heart:
The people who suffered in the earthquake live there suffering, facing the difficult situation instead of us.
It might be that people who lost their lives, departed instead of us, breathing now.
In the same time, if our lives were connected like the tree is connected, we would be wounding or loosing part of our body.

If it was like that, people, animals and plants suffering and dying in wars and natural disasters around the world, keep on loosing their lives instead of us. In the same time, that could become pain in our bodies.
As we were not existing if our parents, grandparents and ancestor would not exist,
if we went down the roots of our distant ancestors, we would be connected to the same one tree. We are alive, thanks to our ancestors and beings loosing life around the world.
In the same time we keep on loosing parts of our bodies.
We have forgotten, about being one tree.

That is why I want to dance, I want to remember the life that was a part of us and has been keeping us alive. And so, the tree that has overcome the pain gives birth to thousand flowers and I want to touch these flowers, even for a moment.
Thousand drops fall from the sky, the countless drops give life to trees, they give flowers.
Countless drops fall form sky/ heaven.

Atsushi TAKENOUCHI

Choreograph, Butoh : Atsushi Takenouchi
Music : Hiroko Komiya ( water, stone, bells, bamboo, etc )　
Costume : Jun Nishizaki