Portuguese

Men, women and children gathered before dusk Saturday behind the Portuguese community center in Artesia. They packed the bleachers that circle the dirt ring with its high wood walls painted red. The three-day holiday weekend Festa da Bola would be filled with soccer, laughter, food. But on this evening, the main attraction was a bullfight. It was billed as a "bloodless bullfight" -- in which the animal is not killed in the ring.

Conchita Cintron obituary: A headline on the obituary of bullfighter Conchita Cintron in Thursday's California section said she was Peruvian. Cintron was a Portuguese citizen.

"Saudade," the untranslatable title of David Rousseve's dance-theater piece, which runs through Sunday at the Freud Playhouse courtesy of UCLA Live, is a Portuguese word encompassing longing for what has been lost and hope for its unlikely return. The meaning is as emotionally rich as it is elusive -- qualities that fit this meditative collage, which is suffused with mourning, mystery and more than a little head-scratching mayhem. Working again with Reality, his multiethnic, transnational L.A.-based company, Rousseve narrates a series of slippery, highly subjective explorations into the "bittersweet" experience of being.