Nick Szuberla Saudade
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Saudade is a dance-theater work combining storytelling, video imagery and Portuguese Fado music. Written, directed and choreographed by David Rousseve, the piece uses African American history as a lens through which to explore “bittersweetness” as a single moment when the greatest of joy and agony are experienced simultaneously. As a way of embodying conversations on global cooperation and American isolationism, Saudade is performed by “postmodernists” as well as practitioners of world dance forms including Indonesian, Bharata Natyam and West African.
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Nick Szuberla
Media artist Nick Szuberla has broadcast his performance and media projects throughout America, at venues that include the Policy Research Institute’s R…
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2009: Saudade Premieres at the University of Maryland
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2008: Rousseve assists an open rehearsal of Saudade at UCLA
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Some years ago, choreographer David Rousseve got turned o...
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