Class reflection: This week’s class was a week that Biden was finally elected. And the class started with a peaceful and hopeful atmosphere. Fortunately or unfortunately, I was not in the United States when this time of the election as wel…

Class reflection: We read Hayashi’s letter at the beginning of class. I was fortunate enough to read her whole letter and translate some parts in front of my classmates. Hayashi’s letter was her reply to a letter from Eiko’s student. So, I…

We started the class with movement this week as well. Eiko began the class talking about two factors of silence and activeness in performance: the performers know their intention and feeling that create their movement but the audience only…

Dear Hayashi Kyoko san, Nice to meet you. I am Hayate Murayama. I read several works of yours in class, and I am writing this letter to you. First of all, I’d like to tell you, “thank you” for writing books to tell your hibakusha experienc…

We did two movements this week: preschool for the entire body and landscape. We did the preschool movement at the beginning of the class. I felt it was a little warming-up exercise for me since I felt my joint very loose and my body was li…

Class reflection: This week’s class has started with “kindergarten” movement. It came across as one of the difficult movements I did in class to think about and dance to. In kindergarten movement, we focused on one arm and move from five f…

Class reflection: I feel that I get more focus and grounded in class after a month and feel three hours are getting not enough to cover what we read and think. So, from next week, I will try to share more personal memories and share my dee…

I got interested in Tamiki Hara, an author of “Summer Flower” and “The Land of Heart’s Desire,” and ran a little search on his life on the Internet. And, I found out that he faced many deaths of his family at his young age, and he loved hi…

This is a weekly blog series for the class called "Delicious Movement." This is #2. --- Since we don’t do much of actions like “merging our front and back,” the “Front and Back” exercise gave me was refreshing and mysterious aftertastes. I…

誰そ彼と われをな問ひそ 九月の 露に濡れつつ 君待つわれそ— 『万葉集』第10巻2240番 黄昏 - Wikipedia youtu.be Let me know who you are when you are fish in the dusk.

This is a weekly blog series for the class called "Delicious Movement." This is #1. --- Last week, our dog called Mocha passed away. He was with our family for over fourteen years. I haven’t experienced losing somebody I love and care in m…