We admit with shame and sorrow that we didn't speak to the nicest or marvellous girls in the audience with that sweet voice which is the gift of our deeply gallant soul. We feel all our disgrace and uglyness and we openly plead guilty and resolve to mend ourselves in future. Shall they remit the harsh punishment of their disdain with a more human understanding of our torment. We have in our defence but one and only reason: we didn't lie!
Carlo Emilio Gadda - The Madonna of philosophers

From our special correspondent following the Company - Our colleague Mr.Trombetta was not entirely wrong to spread this news item from the bastions of Panorama, a weekly magazine of the utmost integrity: Nueva Compania Tangueros picked out the hardest way, just Nuevo Tango, no glamour, very stylized dance which doesn't come to terms with the showy stuff too much. Two rigorous acts that try sorely even the coarsest insomnia.
Actually, it's a common notion among the critics that Tango belongs to the loud world of attractions or to pyrotechnichs, or to sociology at the most, a pastime for the populacho as we say in Argentina, which is worth a reasonable praise by the most inflexible reviewers only when it doesn't intend to go beyond those Popular Art limits that Mr.Croce and Mr.Gramsci have argued so often about. Quite another matter is talking of choreographic composition, dramaturgy, dance technique, stylistics, or discussing the active principles that make the patient critic, the audience, or all three, feel sleepy once a day - in the posology of Tango of course, rather than in Contemporary Dance's pharmacopoeia.
It is true that a full house, a so-called box office hit, hides an element of vulgarity that gives evidence against the programme's cultural virtues and the Artistic Director who has planned it, without anybody ever calling him for the dull endowments of managing and accounting; on the other hand the Hemingway's prediction, according to which the audience can not remain better than the critics for a long time, seems to be groundless in this particular case.
Nevertheless, the Tangueros Four Nights' short tour overturned the expectations with five sold outs out of five performances, despite of the no-showy stuff, the hardest Nuevo Tango, the stylized dance and Mr.Trombetta. 
The Panorama insensitive readers, or the precious few who still disregard it, have crowded the stalls, the mezzanines, the balconies, the galleries, the first-tier boxes, the paths, the passages and even the chandeliers, and from these cramped positions they have delivered infinite cheers and called for several encores. Not intimidated at all by the box office bugaboo, a sleepless avalanche has besieged every stage with the name Tangueros on the bill. The news reported even an odious affair of black market on the tickets, with agiotage and reselling, that held the Authors Society Inspectors Pool in check for weeks. The case was subsequently entrusted to your friendly correspondent who solved it and routed the scalper in only five minutes: i confessed. 
The local press too was unanimous for once:

Du Tango pour finir en beautè
Le Neuchatel Dance Festival s'est achevè samedi soir par une soirée consacrée au Tango, avec la Nueva Compania Tangueros de Buenos Aires. La salle du Theatre du Passage était comble et l'ambience à la fete. Le public n'a pas caché son plaisir: les Tangueros cultivent avant tout une technique éblouissante et cette danse populaire est devenu un art, peut-etre un peu trop parfait. LCV

Audience enraptured.
At the Civico, four steps in the Buenos Aires of the Sixties
The choreographies are elegant, plain and refined in the same time. A perfect mix the audience couldn't stop to cheer at. Mariachiara Michieli makes a popular and romantic dance as noble as never before, without falling off in kitschy stuff, or clichès. She brings the Tango to be a pure Art. The Teatro Civico was in raptures.
Giorgia Difonzo

In the meanwhile, one hellenic e-mail dispatch has been forwarded from a very remote PC:

A beautiful performance
Since the beauty, oh my dear Phaedrus, is the only visible thing worth loving: it is the sole form of the spirit we are able to perceive through our senses and that our senses could tolerate. Plato 

A large success, wasn't it?, for this short and valuable tour. Thanks with all our hearts.

Jean Fajean - © The Tangueros Quarterly Review

Next tour Information Bureau

Nueva Compania Tangueros will be touring Italy again at the end of January 2001 .

The Tangueros Quarterly Review - the forthcoming issue

The Tangueros Quarterly Review second issue will be on line the 20th of January 2001. In addition to the Director Jean Fajean's column on the Four Nights' autumn tour (which we gave some early extracts of in this Newsletter), the TQR  n.2 will include: