#improvisationresearch

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.

Join Harpo and Groucho for a peripatetic adventure traversing the urban landscape. Inspired by the Situationist practice of derivé, participants will meet for coffee and instructions at the Henry before embarking on their own, unplanned & unmediated journey through Seattle ending in a Happy Hour recap at a secret location. The Drunken Boot is part of an ongoing project, the Shape of the Vessel and What it Holds, an exploration of psycho-geography, fellowship and walking as making. Harpo and Groucho (H + G, aka Sara Edwards and NKO) are Seattle-based conceptual artists searching for freedom and transcendence in an American landscape ravaged by late-Capitalism. Through physical meditations – walking, cycling, singing, drunkenness and the cooking and sharing food among them – H+G are asking questions of the real America and it’s people. Traversing topography, defying the simulacra, rejecting authority, giving gifts, dreaming, moving always upward – H+G insist we are what we share, not what we own.

"...when Lisa Nelson speaks of her Tuning Score she does not refer to a written score at all, but to a set of shared agreements and tools that together constitute 'a communication and feedback system for an ensemble of players" by Myriam Van Imschoot "Rests in Pieces: Scores Notation and the Trace in Dance (2005)

by Kate Fowle + Frances Wu Giarratano---Forward----page 9.

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.