Flower of Kan (癇の花)

Choreograph Note - Butoh Fu

-1
- impulse of tiny white flowers blooming, ripple
- repetition in changing of day/night, open/close, shadow/light, up/down... touch one end another end unfold at the same time
- Invisible dimensions exist in layers of high - unexpected visit - part, cell
External - collapse, sway, dying, shock, vibrate, wave...
Internal - unexpected visit (peacock)

-2-

- Crystallised edge

- Insomnia ash
- Passing through, the exit is whereabout. Disappearing is distance. Invisible bodies
- Transparency liquid swollen space between the nils and fingers

- Side melt, precisely - whole to cell

- Digging channels to another half - body to space

- twinkling jelly fish’s feet travel between abyss silence and sunlight

- Becoming ocean (carrying density)

-3-

- A bug’s fear appear from the cheek, ten, hundreds, whereabouts (sound - one bug’s fear subtleness take over the vastness)
- Hidden cavity, skin, joint, muscle, fluid. Eaten organs - pore to space hungry bugs - space disappeared, bugs tree

- Skin doll breeding the dust

- Be watched (peacock)

-4-

- Massive fishing net, irresistible

- be played by the fool (innocent child awaking),(peacock) (earth level, girl’s legs stand inward)

-The Fool - (witness the dynamic - outer audio turn into internal strings)
- No body visit anymore
- She learns the various custom of Shisha (three buddha)

- A fulfilment suddenly came, her gaze became a incredible beautiful being

-5-

- Worm climb spine, bones make up by worm
- Creature has only arms and legs, inhibited
- Love affairs in the finger tips (Hidden cavity, skin, joint, muscle, fluid)
- Touch of the fingertip trace the golden grain, the hair of the golden grain, the end of the hair of the golden grain
- Crystallised

Flower of Kan(癇の花) is a solo piece choreograph and dance by Yi Chen, it has been performed in India, France, Italy, Slovenia, and China. In dedication of Hijikata’s “癇” appeared in his performance piece “Quiet House” in 1985, and Subbody founder Lee Rhizome.

The Kanji Japanese character for "Kan" is written as "癇". "疒" means "sick or disabled”. And "間 (=Ma)" means “in between”, it is also symbolised looking at the rising sun/moon “日/月" from the gate “門”. Life is sometimes squeezed, twisted, poisoned, and deformed by irresistible forces. It is not always considered beautiful. Yet, the dissonant space in the collective consciousness breeds profound flowers.


© Xun勋