place yourself in a territory where the body cannot move in known ways - it's the same with living
clearly detail the ambiguity, do not stagnate the feelings inside the body
stagnation is important for stasis, but when you are really stuck , there is no hiding it
do not rely on muscles
encountering something
observing observation, and what allows it to exist
sensing the requirements for appearing
inferring the cause that is prior to the beginning / the little bird, the sky's (unnerving) signs
pre-empt needles on the souls of the feet and nape of the neck
wind blows dandelion-like things through the void of the inner organs
drawing and erasing drawing and erasing the image of a fresco
forgetting things once recalled
growing thick hair in order to forget
sobering up with the feeling of smoothly drinking sake
joining the whole body in prayer
to exist is a prayer
"Hijikata's butoh asked: 'isn't it that those things which can be expressed only appear in not expressing?' The attempt to express was always visible to the audience. For, as Hijikata would say, the 'audience's gaze is a thousand times faster' than the dancer's. Hijikata's ankoku butoh sought to express through anti-expression. This related to his theory of the body as something like a single droplet of water, or a dewdrop on the surface of a lotus leaf. in other words, a white sphere. a white sphere at once retains its form and at the same time takes on the color of an autumn leaf, or lotus leaf it rests upon."
(from the ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO BUTOH PERFORMANCE )