恢复完整的身体——读铃木忠志《文化就是身体》

Restoring the Wholeness of Human Body: Notes on Culture is the Body by Suzuki Tadashi

在《文化就是身体》中,铃木忠志指出现代文明已经肢解了人类的身体,人类已愈发难以通过身体本能来认识彼此,遑论培养更深入密切的人际关系。在他看来,戏剧在很多方面都应该与现代文明背道而驰,除大量采用动物性能源、让观众透过可见之物"看见"不可见之物外,还应该容许、乃至倡导可能性。因此,他力图在戏剧的脉络下恢复完整的人类身体;以此为目标,其身体戏剧论述主要涉及三个方面:语言的身体性、身体与空间的关系以及"足的文法"。

In Culture is the Body, Suzuki Tadashi held that modernization has dismembered the human body. As a consequence, it is difficult for people to know each other through their bodies, let alone building better interpersonal relationship. Suzuki held that theatre should resist modernization in more than one ways, and proposed some methods to achieve the goal, such as heavily using animal-energy, letting the audience see the invisible through the visible, and admitting, or even better, encouraging possibility. In that way, Suzuki has been striving to restore the wholeness of human body in performance. His discussion of the physical theatre can be divided into three parts： the physicality of dialogue, the relations between body and space, and ＂the grammar of feet＂.