COLLAPSIBLE SOUFFLé

Dance Residency: Vanessa DeWolf http://www.allriseseattle.org/insitu/ ALL RISE//InSitu//Dance: Aug 4-10

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HOMESICKNESS

homesickness

Hiraeth /hɪəraɪ̯θ/ is a Welsh word that has no direct English translation.  An attempt to define it : homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed. It is a mix of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness, or an earnest desire for the Wales of the past.

Saudade  is a Portuguese or Galician  word that has no direct translation in English. It describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing may never return.  A stronger form of saudade may be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such as a lost lover, or a family member who has gone missing.

Saudade was once described as "the love that remains" after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone (e.g., one's children, parents, sibling, grandparents, friends, pets) or something (e.g., places, things one used to do in childhood, or other activities performed in the past) that should be there in a particular moment is missing, and the individual feels this absence. It brings sad and happy feelings all together, sadness for missing and happiness for having experienced the feeling.

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The sky was split into two halves

The field was split into two halves by the sunlight; one half was bright and the other half was in shade. And then, the shade pushed towards the light side until there was only a little bit light around the rim, and eventually the field slowly cooled down. Two squirrels were nodding their heads and wondered around the field; their eyes were bright, like two candles that that could not be extinguished.......... at least they were there. What was more, they travelled in a pair, holding each other in arms. A star was rotating its orbit..............

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Home on the range

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from Alexandria Kewitt

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And with pink & orange we acknowledge the above

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Descriptive Activity with movement & speaking.

Describe in writing a nearby object or place along with your mental landscape while describing it: any association, memory, image, comment (seemingly relevant or irrevelant). This is a document of your mental landscape, with no attempt to be interesting, poetic, clever, clever, funny or dramatic. Use full sentences or sentence fragments, i.e. not a list of words. Then either:

1) Move starting with any texture, quality, or image that came up in the description, allowing the movement to develop & change in whatever way it's going.

2) Speak the words you've written, feeling free to repeat sentences, words, phrases, or the whole thing. Let your once slide in pitch, volume, & speed.

Continue what you're doing with an awareness of being in the context of the whole moving sounding picture.

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Essay: Choreography for Thirteen Ways / Syniva Whitney

What is a score? The Baccara Collaborative’s exhibition Thirteen Ways at the Bolt Gallery in Chicago included an essay in their printed catalog by Syniva Whitney that included writing about score work...

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WHAT IS COLLAPSIBLE SOUFFLé?

A cartographic dream.  A mapped memory.  The body moving in familiar ways to familiar places then....visiting a new place with new movements to new places.  Body collisions.  Déja vu.

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WHAT IS COLLAPSIBLE SOUFFLé?

A conversation between mediums, between distances, between gentrifying neighborhoods, between the imagined, the forgotten and the new, between deep holes and high cranes.

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WHAT IS COLLAPSIBLE SOUFFLé?

Maps without geography.

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WHAT IS COLLAPSIBLE SOUFFLé?

What is a score?  How will we superimpose?  What dreams of home do we have when we are a visitor?  How will we distill? saturate? imbue? embody? Find our way home, out of home, after forgetting?

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WHAT IS COLLAPSIBLE SOUFFLé?

Improvisation + Performance research into scores, memory, nostalgia, poetic impulse, loss of home and rubble. 

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ALL RISE SEATTLE // In Situ // Dance Residency---Aug 4-10

ALL RISE SEATTLE: In Situ

COLLAPSIBLE SOUFFLé: (cartography + scores + performance research) This research will jump from improvisational scores & cartography into an absurd puff pastry of neighborhoods, homesickness, rubble, gentrification & fantastical landscapes.  Conceptually coping with neighborhood growth and loss by superimposing Capitol Hill & the Cascade Neighborhood.  In brightly colored paper costumes, we’ll bravely overlap imaginative psychic geographies on Karl Burkheimer’s sculptural installation “In Situ”.  Ensembles of 2-25 people writing, drawing, discussing, performing, and coping with the impact of gentrification.

Research & Concept by Vanessa DeWolf

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Some good info about Scores

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RED + PINK BITS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD

photos by Vanessa to inspire an earnest desire for the places you've lost