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tilling the land for that art-life love #allriseseattle

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http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780472063840

HALFLIFE: Improvisations & Interviews, by Charles Wright (1989)

Poetry is the dark beast with its mouth open, and you’ve got to walk down that tongue and into the windy mouth. And you’ve got to sing while you walk. — Charles Wright

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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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WHAT IS A SCORE FOR IMPROVISATION?

"A score is a plan.  A score is a preparation.  A score is a map, a topography, a terrain.  A score is something to explore" Sarah Maxfield (2011) "Knowing the Score"

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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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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