From Nakayasu’s translation of Yamamoto’s notebook...

From Nakayasu’s translation of Yamamoto’s notebook for Hijikata’s COSTUME EN FACE (UDP 2015). This is a kind of production notebook for a Butoh performance that Michael Cross recommended to me. So amazing–of course scoring those movements involves direction like “Enter the body as if a thin thread” and lists stage settings like “phosphorous - decomposition - backbone of a ghost body - neon sign - cough - decay - breath - foxfire.” Seriously necessary book.