Thursday, August 26, 2010

Experience "Tango éxtasis" at Miracle Theatre Sept. 17 in Portland

Beginning September 17, Miracle Theatre Group is pleased to present “La Luna Nueva”, a festival of Hispanic arts and culture from around the world celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Like the new moon emerging from the shadows, “La Luna Nueva” shines its light on new artists and new work across a variety of disciplines. Join us for spirited flamenco, passionate tango, Cuban jazz and intimate boleros, bilingual poetry and songs from local authors and musicians, storytelling for families, open mic nights and staged readings of four new plays, including this season’s world premiere of "Boomcracklefly." For more information or to purchase tickets, visit http://www.milagro.org or call 503-236-7253.

Among the many festival events is …

“Tango éxtasis”
Two performances: 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. • Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 • $25
Uncover the exquisite passion and the burning intensity of tango for one night only. Let the music and the dance embrace your body and capture your heart with this unique performance showcasing moves you won’t see at milongas. Artists from Portland and Seattle include Sean Battles, Angela Bevill-Kohler, Dominic Bridge, Mauricio Carvajal, Jaimes Friedgen, Alex Krebs, Christa Rodriguez, Jenna Rohrbacher, Pols Sungjong Oh and Remanda Xiang. Limited seating; get tickets in advance by calling 503-236-7253 weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or online anytime from http://www.milagro.org

Would you like to receive a full brochure of all La Luna Nueva festival events? Just let me know and I can send you a brochure by e-mail or snail mail right away!

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Miracle Theatre Group
Theatre: 525 SE Stark St.
Office: 425 SE Sixth Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
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2010-2011 27th Season
Viva Don Juan, A Celebration of the Day of the Dead • Oct. 28-Nov. 14, 2010
Duende de Lorca • Jan. 13-22, 2011
Ana en el trópico (Anna in the Tropics) • Feb. 10-March 5, 2011
Boomcracklefly • March 24-April 16, 2011
Lazarillo • May 5-28, 2011

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

New York Time published an article about Gabriel Misse and Natalia Hills

New York Times published an article about Gabriel Misse and Natalia Hills.

“Men would practice together before dancing with women,” she said. “That’s how tango became the way it is: men prepared it, and both partners are strong.” - Gabriel said.

Gabriel and Natalia are in San Francisco Bay Area next week in a number of places. For the more experience dancers to experience their style, the most suitable workshop is at the Fantasy Dance Studio:

August 19, 2010
"Fantasy Dance Studio",
2584 Leghorn Street Unit B,
Mountain View, 94043
(near Independence and San Antonio, 1 minute from 101)

One of the most powerful dancers of the Salon style of Tango

Gabriel Misse and Natalia Hills
A Workshop
"Review of Tango: all important tango figures done in Natalia and Gabriel style"
Price $25,
8:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 12:30 - Practicalonga.
Doors open at 8:00.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

PARIS INTERNATIONAL TANGO FESTIVAL is announced

FITA II ND EDITION
PARIS INTERNATIONAL TANGO FESTIVAL
FITA’10
D DAY - 27 !!
From 2nd to 5th September, 2010 in PARIS (FRANCE).
1 Concert, 4 Milongas, 6 shows 5 Tango Classes Intermediates/Advanced 5 Tango Masterclasses 1 Folklore Classes
RESERVE NOW AND SAVE !!
Orchestra
ORQUESTA TIPICA TANGARTE, direction Juanjo PASSO ...9 Musicians et Singer.
Tango Maetri - LAST MINUTE MODIFICATION !!
Cecilia PICCINNI & Mazen KIWAN (LEBANON)
will replace
Maria INGSTAD & Paul UTTER (SUEDE).
Maestros will so be :
Alessia LYNDIN & Thierry LE COCQ (FRANCE)
Andrea REYERO & Sebastian MISSE (ARGENTINA)
Georgia PRISKOU & Loukas BALOKAS (GREECE)
Cecilia PICCINNI & Mazen KIWAN (LEBANON)
Yanina QUINOÑES & Neri PILIU (ARGENTINA)
Folklore Maestri
Ana Maria GUTIERREZ & Ricardo DALOI (ARGENTINA)
DJs
Danielle BLANCO (FRANCE)
Oscar MOYANO (ARGENTINE)
Stéphane KOCH (TURKEY)
Anastasia POMOGAEVA (RUSSIA)
The BIG FRIENDLY FESTIVAL.
SUBSCRIPTIONS opened RIGHT NOW....
Any info on Official Website WWW.FITAXX.COM

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Facundo Posadas is celebrating 70. Lecture of Robert Farris Thompson in Verdi Club

On August 12, Cristy Cote invites everyone to celebrate 70th birthday of Facundo Posadas, a prominent milonguero and a tango teacher at Verdi Club in San Francisco. Robert Farris Thompson, an author of "Tango: The Art History of Love" book is going to give a lecture on African roots of Tango. Live music with Seth Asarnow sexteto tipico. DJ: Emilio Flores.

"Alejandro Ziegler cuarteto Tango" is planning a new tour

I'm writing from Buenos Aires to offer my quartet "Alejandro Ziegler cuarteto Tango". We developed our danceable style influenced by the golden age tango orchestras: Di Sarli, Pugliese, Troilo and Gobbi among others.

We have just arrived from our second european tour, 42 concerts in 14 countries, and we are now starting our third tour in Europe.

We are planning our first tour in North America in January- march 2012, and we would like you to organize a milonga or concert with us if you find it suitable.

I'm sending two videos so you can watch us playing live:
Danzarin:
Organito de la tarde:

On my homepage's adress, where you can find our biography and some of my own compositions. We also offer another show based on danceable tango where we support the dancers with our music.

For further information don't hestitate to write me.
Best regards.
Alejandro Ziegler.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Investigating possibility of creating tango community news site

I would like to welcome responsible reporters to participate in this project. You will get permission to become a publishing team member of this blog.

Let us agree that posts should be in conventional news format and curry news important for the global as well as local communities. Links to the private sites are most welcome. Essentially, a news post can be a short description of the news with a link to your site with a bigger article. Please, refrain from the posts which curry no news, but such things like discussions, opinions, and knowledge. These things are suitable in the comments or on the other websites to which you can provide a link.

Let us keep it nice, tight and useful for tango organizers, DJ-s, dancers, teachers, reserchers, musicians, and anyone intersted.

The ultimate goal is to make such site which can pass the criteria for the inclusion to Google News.

I have no intention of retaining my ownership. If the situation is required I am ready to pass it to any organization with a broader social representation of tango comminity.

So, if you want to start publishing your tango news, let me know. I will immediatelly include you in the list of authors.

Thank you,
Igor Polk.
PS Let us try it?