Dear NA-E tango list: There will be a great Dance Performance in New York, Boston and Northampton (MA) during October. The french tango dance company QUAT'ZARTS will perform "A Fuego Lento". For those who would like to witness a terrific dance show with scenes bearing but not limited to argentine tango performances, from the perspective of a sophisticated french-argentinean interpretation:
The French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) will present the U.S. premiere of "A fuego lento", by nine-year-old French dance company Quat'zarts. The subject: the complex relationship between men and women The show will run for three consecutive nights (Friday Oct.8, Saturday Oct. 9 and Sunday Oct. 10) at Florence Gould Hall in New York. It will be followed in pure tango tradition by a dance party, Friday and Saturday, and accompanied by refreshments. Admission is $35; $28 (FIAF members) performance only. $45 and $38 (FIAF members) for the performance and the Tango Dance Party: Friday, Oct. 8 & Saturday, Oct. 9 Tickets are available at the Florence Gould Hall Box Off ice (212) 355-6160 or through ticketmaster (212) 307-4100. More details about performances in Boston and Northampton are forthcoming. The Press Release said: Created in 1996, by Catherine Berbessou, Quat'zarts Founder and Artistic Director, and Federico Rodriguez Moreno, tango master, the show toured Europe to critical acclaim and sold-out theaters, and was presented to major European festivals, such as the Lyons Biannual and Montpellier Dance Festival. A rapturous encounter between French contemporary dance and Argentinean tango, "A fuego lento" starts with a naked woman slowly wrapping herself in a red curtain, ending her sensuous dance in a man's arms. From then on, the show builds on what tango stands for: the complex relationship between men a nd women. Such major themes --equality, solitude, violence, flirtation, desire, and rejection-- are performed with extreme sensitivity by three men and four women. "I'm in an Argentinean tango context, but with contemporary dance direction and dramaturgy" says Ms. Berbessou about her choreographic approach. Before founding her own company, Quat'zarts, in 1990 Catherine Berbessou has worked with French dancers Francoise and Dominique Dupuy, then joined Jo?lle Bouvier and R?gis Obadia's company "l'Esquisse" for six years. She choreographed three shows, "En marche arri?re" (1990), "Candy Apple" (1992), and "A Table" (1993), before she met Federico Rodriguez Moreno at a Tango dance party. She fell in love with the dance and the whole atmosphere, and went to Buenos Aires where she studiedtango with some of its best-known instructors: Pupi Castello and Gustavo Naviera. Born in Argentina, Federico Rodriguez Moreno taught tango in Buenos Aires as well as throughout Europe. Both Federico and Catherine currently teach tango in France and Europe. "In Argentina, the women make themselves desirable, and the men, as real macho, are to take the initiative. With Catherine Berbessou, women abandon themselves, cheek to cheek, lips to lips, but at the end manipulate men as they wish! . . . Catherine Berbessou doesn't imitate anybody, she creates her own universe, more erotic than sensuous,full of creativity and humor. An extraordinary piece, "erotissimo" but never indecent or shocking." Le Figaro, November 13, 1997. I have no commercial interest in this announcement Diego ___________________________________________________ Diego Fraidenraich, Ph.D. Department of Microbiology New York University School of Medicine 550 First Ave, MSB252. New York, NY 10016 Telephone: 212-263-5331
