The Tangueros Monthly Newsletter
international edition - january 2003

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El Alma que danza

En los grandes años del Tango, de las mil orquestas, de los gigantescos bailes de Carnaval, de la ropa estilo Divito y de los cordones de seda encerados, cuando no habìa nadie que se proclamara tanguero porque no habìa ninguno que no lo fuera, El Alma que canta, y antes El Canta claro, difundieron en toda Argentina los textos de los tangos que se escuchaban en la radio, en los discos, en los numeros vivo del cine o en los cafés.
Durante unas decadas, estas revistas editaron con la imparcialidad de Ernesto Gomensoro, el enemigo numero uno de la censura, un desmesurado cancionero popolar en el que se iban mezclando las liricas de un Homero Manzi con, por ejemplo, las modestas instancias sociales de un José Camilloni (Migas y Trabajo).
Las palabras del Tango continuaron de esa manera a responder a la misma urgencia de Poesia, siempre tan fuerte en la Argentina, a que antes habìa respondido la payada. La Poesia - un poeta nos recuerda - tiene que "resonar" en nosotros, tambièn cuando el poeta se va.
Bueno, la poesia del Tango, noble o cursi que fuera, sin duda resonò por un rato tan largo en nosotros los argentinos que nunca dejamos de inventarla, ya que hemos creado la mas despabilante habla cotidiana - imitada tambien en el exterior!- que los compiladores de diccionarios de lunfardo podràn nunca falsear.
Muchos años màs tarde, en una epoca en la cual cualquier nabo con una computadora, puede acceder en dos segundos hasta a la traduccion en sueco de El ciruja, una pequeña y grande compañia de Tango o, hablando como un colega, la mas orgullosa de las compañias de Tango, se està aprestando a dar vuelta otra vez a Italia, y a hacer resonar la Poesia del Nuevo Tango en el alma gentil de quien la quiera escuchar.
No es El alma que danza y tampoco El danza claro, si no DESDELALMA.
Y la compañia, señoras y señores, es la Nueva Compañia Tangueros.

DESDELALMA
choreography by Mariachiara Michieli
music by Piazzolla, Rovira and Stroscio

dancers: Silvina Aguera y Sebastian Romero, Silvia Vaccaro y Mariano Suazo
Trio Esquina: César Stroscio, Claudio Pino Enriquez, Hubert Tissier
Cuarteto Alma: Alessandro Vavassori, Luciano Saladino, Daniele Pagella, Eliana Gintoli

February 08 - Passaggio di Bettona (Perugia), Teatro Excelsior
February 09 - Magione (Perugia), Teatro Mengoni
February 11 - Bari, Teatro Piccinni
February 12 - Bari, Teatro Piccinni
February 15 - Lecce, Teatro Politeama Greco
February 21 - Borgonovo V.T. (Piacenza), Teatro Capitol

© El Moplo, Buenos Aires january 2003

 

The Music Delicatessen

The huge bandoneonist César Stroscio will be back in Milano the next 20th of february. After the Villa Arconati and Suoni & Visioni successful performances, this concert will be the third one in less then one year in the same city, even if in different conditions: in the first place, mr. Stroscio will play without second leads and with his Trio Esquina only; then, he will not play in a big Theater, but in a jazzclub's enthralling athmosphere at La Salumeria della Musica. This is indeed a happy opportunity to listen closely to one of the best leading figures in Contemporary Tango. The club dimension will do nothing but favour the interplay between artist and audience, and between the musicians too. Not to be missed.

TRIO ESQUINA
César Stroscio bandoneòn
Claudio Pino Enriquez guitar
Hubert Tissier double bass

in concert February 20th, 2003
La Salumeria della Musica
www.lasalumeriadellamusica.it

 

An american history of Infamy

In Tango, we talk about Jorge Luis Borges for the slightest thing and so often that to leave his name out occasionally seems a pedantic remark of a connoisseur more than an act of kindness. But when it comes to aknowledge his importance within the own literature, the experts are alway looking elsewhere.
If at one hand we could expect the campaign for the Martin Scorsese's movie Gangs of New York to urge on the well-pondered first italian edition of the Herbert Asbury's book, where the film comes from 75 years after - i wouldn't like, Columbus said, the natives to discover America before me - on the other hand, we are not surprised to notice that nobody quoted Mr.Borges so far, with regard to the book he was the main commentator of since the early thirties. As matters stand, Monk Eastman turns out to be a Borges character in every respect, as many said of Macedonio Fernandez before someone published his writings truly.
In the Universal History of Infamy (1935) the terrific Eastman's portrait stands out for a whole chapter. Mr.Scorsese himself decided to put him in the script, despite there still were two lustres to his anachronistic birth. Not to mention his unforgettable cameo in Milonga Nacional - the novel our Tangueros Quarterly Review has serialized - or the numberless references to the Asbury's book Mr.Borges has spread along his work.
He invented so many fictitious books that he ended up inventing one real. And nobody believes him.

 

The Tangueros School opens in Milano

Here we are: the first week of March, just after the DESDELALMA tour, the Tangueros School will open also in Milano. We'll start with two courses each week for beginners and intermediate levels. All the lessons will be leaded by Mariachiara Michieli with one of the NCT Principal Dancers' pairs, Silvina Aguera and Sebastian Romero, as assistants. This means that the pupils will be always followed by three teachers.
The School room is very nice, with big windows, mirrors and a marley dance floor. Deadline for registration: February 22.

TANGUEROS SCHOOL
teacher: Mariachiara Michieli
assistants: Silvina Aguera e Sebastian Romero

every wednesday, from March 5
09.00-10.30pm: level 2 (intermediate)

every friday, from March 7
08.00-09.30pm: level 1 (basic)

ON STAGE - piazza Medaglie d'oro, 2 (Porta Romana) Circolo ATM Il Ragno d'oro ph. 0254101850

 


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