David Rousseve 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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David Rousseve
David Rousseve’s projects include the dance-for camera Bittersweet (shown at the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center), and a collaboration with…
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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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Oct 22 – Oct 25 2009
David Rousseve's Creative Capital supported project Saudade is performed at Danspace Project in New York City.
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Jul 15 – Jul 19 2009
David Rousseve's Creative Capital supported project "Saudade" is performed at Jacob's Pillow in Becket, MA.
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Feb 05 – Feb 06 2009
David Rousseve premieres his Creative Capital supported project "Saudade" at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, MD
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