The TANGO Capital Newsletter
Hola Tango Friends, Hello Tango Partners, We welcome you to the April edition of our Newsletter with the hope that your tango life is ever more fulfilling and inspired. Here in Buenos Aires visitors come year round from all corners of the world to find inspiration as they experience tango at its source. They leave feeling many things. Inspired, surprised, educated, culturally immersed, excited, happy, giddy, overwhelmed, tired. But all leave feeling in love. At least more in love than ever with this dance and its music. And all leave wanting more! During March the flow of visitors steadily grew and finally crested here for the fifth annual Buenos Aires Festival of Tango, which we talked about in our last Newsletter. Tango Partners in Buenos Aires had the pleasure to personally welcome many of you, our Tango Friends from around the world, with embraces and dances. We were glad to be able to assist many of you in getting to know Buenos Aires in order to enjoy all that it has to offer. We met you at milongas, classes, concerts and in line while waiting for event tickets. It was a great opportunity for us to share intense experiences and get to know many of you personally. The Festival was about celebrating this beautiful music and dance a gift from Buenos Aires to all of us. It was about coming together to welcome, share and explore the diversity in one big embrace. The energy was felt by all. It was an opportunity to express many different styles in dance and in music as well as tango in a large variety of other art forms. The common and beautiful thread being that each one of us expresses from our heart while creating for our personal enjoyment and that of those who listen, watch or share the dance on the milonga floor. For all who express themselves in the Tango it is a personal, heartfelt and creative expression. In the words of a very special Tango Friend celebrating over 60 years of dancing: "Tango is what passes from our heads through our hearts and finally to our feet." (Juan and Nina Belsito, see the interview in our next Newsletter). Again, it is important to thank each of you for continuing to read our Newsletter, The TANGO Capital, and for sending us your enthusiastic responses. We hope you enjoy this April edition and that you might take a moment to send us your comments. We love to connect with our readers and Tango Friends! April Newsletter contains: Editorial "El Abrazo" (your enthusiastic answers and cooperation) March Events (tango and other cultural events) and Privacy Clause Ask us about: Tango Partners in Buenos Aires Special Tour called: "COUPLES EMBRACE IN BUENOS AIRES" Contact tango_partner_buenos_ai...@yahoo.com.ar We reserve all rights of the information contained in this Newsletter and the trade marks Tango Partners in Buenos Aires (TM) and Newsletter The TANGO Capital (TM). Editorial "El Abrazo" (your enthusiastic answers and cooperation) "It takes two to..." Everybody knows it takes two to love. We all agree with this. Every tango dancer, including us, agrees that it takes two to tango. We also think that it takes two to embrace. Although each one of us can embrace ourselves, when we are cold or lonely that is not enough for a human being. All of us need to receive and "gift" energy from and to someone else. (In Spanish "gift" is a noun and a verb. "To gift" someone.) We like to use the word "gift" as a verb in this case. When we gift someone we give something away. It is theirs to use for their enjoyment and benefit as they choose. Sometimes it is just our time but always with our energy. What would happen if we bought a gift, put it on a shelf and never put it in the hands of the person who was meant to receive it. We have the gift available, we used our resources to prepare it, we had the intention to give. But unless we make a connection by putting the gift physically in their hands, they will never receive it. Our intentions are not enough; we have to make the connection. It is the same with our energy. We all know that the best way to pass along energy is by some means of conduction. Without a means of conduction, energy is inefficiently lost or may never even arrive at its target destination. The embrace is a very important means of conduction to tango dancers. The physical embrace allows for endless possibilities of creative connected movement. But more importantly it allows us the connection to pass on our personal energy. In the embrace we gift our energy when we focus our intentions on our partner. When partners connect with their energy their dance has life, without the connection of energy it is steps and passes. Our personal energy is the gift we bring to our partner that makes possible those "magic" tangos that leave you both wanting more. When we say energy we mean every sensation and feeling that can be shared. The energy of happiness, excitement, passion, compassion, love, hate, jealousy, intimacy, ecstasy, or simply friendliness can be shared between two people. These are some of the possible energies we bring to our relationships. Some are negative and some are positive, but all have power to affect another human being. Of course we can choose our gifts wisely, with respect for others in order to bring the most positive benefit for them, leaving them glad for the gift we shared. We have the pleasure of gifting our energy to others. Our relationships as our tangos, whether intimate friends or acquaintances, need an exchange of energy in order to have life. What more personal and pleasurable way is there to exchange energy than with an embrace? Sometimes we do not have the possibility to share our energy by "gifting" or receiving an embrace. We talked about this a few editorials ago, when distance or absence does not allow it. We also talked about physical embrace without human energy, without affection. Now we would like to share another idea on the other hand. We "gift" you all a warm and affectionate embrace (non-physical by email) hoping we will be able get a personal one soon in Buenos Aires. Tango Partner in Buenos Aires March 2003 Events (Highlights of Tango and other cultural events) V Festival Buenos Aires Tango Highlights As we reported in our March Newsletter, the annual V Buenos Aires Tango Festival succeeded in nine glorious days of tango celebration here in Buenos Aires during March 1-9. The festival was a success in that the quality, quantity and variety of venues offered was truly spectacular and well organized. But possibly the greatest success is the numbers of adoring fans who came to join in the festivities. Locals as well as tango enthusiasts from all reaches of the world were drawn into the welcoming arms of Buenos Aires. The energy level was off the chart as festival visitors came together in the embrace of tango culture-past, present and future. We include again in this month s newsletter many highlights of the festival along with other March events: Saturday 1st: Festival Opening in Palermo Park: The grand opening of the V Buenos Aires Tango Festival was held outdoors in Palermo Park. As fireworks accompanied the playing of "Mi Buenos Aires Querido". Featured orchestra Sexteto Mayor, marks 30 years of sharing tango with Argentina and the rest of the world. Bandaneonist and co-director of Sexteto Mayor, Josi Libertella said that to participate in the festival was a way for him to give back to tango some of what tango gave to him. "Because tango is something that is within." Learning to Dance to what is Being Played:Each night a different major orchestral style was featured with a clinic/class to study and practice dance style for that orchestra. Each class concluded with a milonga featuring a live orchestra. Tonight we attended the class of Milena Plebs and her partner Ezequiel Farfaro with some of our Tango Friends. After the class we stayed for the milonga with the Jorge Dragone orchestra. Sunday the 2nd Teatro Regio Daniel Binelli Quintet: Daniel began learning to play the bandoneon in 1955 at nine years of age. At 22 he joined the orchestra of Osvaldo Pugliese and played with him between 1968 and 1982. Later he played with Atilio Stampone, Astor Piazzolla, Martha Argerich, Milva, Paquito D Rivera and others. In the last several years he has spent his time performing in Europe, USA and Japan. For these reasons his appearance at the festival was very important and very special. Binelli said that during his years with Pugliese it was not common to play for dancers. Color Tango El Beso: If you didn t call ahead to reserve a table it was standing room only to hear the orchestra, Color Tango. This popular orchestra directed by Roberto Alvarez has been very busy meeting the public since its return to Buenos Aires in the last month with a schedule to play almost nightly during the festival. Monday the 3rd Teatro Metropolitan Tango Emocisn with the Lisandro Adrsver Quintet: It was a first time performance in Argentina for this Mora Godoy Company which appeared with the outstanding Lisandro Adrsver Quintet. The group of five couples just completed a tour in Finland, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland. Tuesday the 4th Teatro Metropolitan Juanjo Dominguez and Julio Pane: It is always an exciting opportunity to hear the Juanjo Dommnquez Cuarteto, a quartet of guitars. Also the Julio Pane Trmo played. This year as last year Juanjo performed on guitar with Julio on bandanesn as a duo. Wednesday the 5th Teatro Metropolitan TangoVma and new masters of Tango: This was an exciting concert because we had the opportunity to hear five new tango orchestras. ALL excellent! A veteran tango maestro, such as Emilio Balcarce, the 85-year-old director of the School of Tango Orchestra, presented each new orchestra. (Emilio is admired for his dedication toward the promotion of the continuation of quality tango through his efforts in the School of Tango.) Thursday the 6th Final of the Stage Tango Competition: In total 300 couples representing 25 countries appeared in the world tango competition of the festival either in stage or salon categories. Winners tonight in Stage Tango competition was the young couple Gisela Galeassi and Gaspar Godoy from the province of Cordoba, Argentina. We saw them perform in the Salon Tango finals as well. Juanjo Dommnguez, Julio Pane, and Orquesta TangoVma Buenos Aires performed. Dancers were Gustavo Naveira and Gisele Anne, Julio Balmaceda and Corina de la Rosa. Lida Borda sang. Niqo Bien: Tonight we caught the performance of Adrian and Alejandra. They were fabulous, energetic and athletic, with many original ideas in their dance. We enjoyed the milonga with our Tango Friends from Paris and Switzerland. Friday the 7th Nistor Marconi at Teatro Colsn: Marconi, who conducts for the Juan De Dios Filiberto Tango Orchestra, presented the first performance of his work for bandonesn and orchestra. Marconi is a great interpreter of Astor Piazzolla and a master at bandonesn. Saturday the 8th Teatro Metropolitan Danza Maligna: Fabman Luca presented the debut of his new show, Danza Maligna. Dancers are "Pupy" and Vanina Bilous, Dany Garcia and Elina Roldan, Masci and Susana Rojo, and Jorge Manganelli and Silvana Grill - all veteran dancers and teachers. The show, which is about an hour in length, is set in a milonga and includes some comic scenes as well. Grand Milonga: The stage for the outdoors Grand Milonga at the corner of Corrientes and Parana and the dancing filled the streets for two blocks. It featured three orchestras Ernesto Franco, Color Tango and one of our personal favorites El Arranque. Lidia Borda sang and dancers were Gavito, Gachi and Sergio, Gloria and Eduardo. The dancing started around 8 p.m. and was still going at 2:00 a.m. Sunday the 9th Festival Closing Night: The line-up of orchestras for the night was phenomenal. Orquesta Tipica Los Reyes del Tango, Beba Pugliese and her orchestra, the School of Tango Orchestra conducted by Emilio Balcarce, and the Sexteto Mayor with Guillermo Galvi. Dance performances were by Marma and Carlos Rivarola and his dance group, Ezequiel and Sabrina, Milena Plebs and Ezequiel Farfaro, and the winners of the festival s Stage Tango Competition, Gisela Galeassi and Gaspar Godoy. The finalists for the Salon Tango Competition danced their final performances for judging. Champions were Enrique Usales and Gabriela Sanguinetti. Judith Zapatero and Enrique Grahl of Stuttgart, Germany received First Mention awards. Monday the 10th Zapatos Rojos Tango: This milonga held in La Trastienda in San Telmo provides entertainment every Monday evening. Tonight Julio Balmaceda and Corina De La Rosa performed for us. Wednesday the 12th Milonga de Los Consagrados: This afternoon milonga is popular and the music is excellent. It goes from around 4:30 after a class until 9:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Today Martha Antsn and Manuel Salvador "Manolo" treated us with their exhibition dancing of Canyengue. Canyengue is a style of dance from the late 1800 early 1900 s. Thursday the 13th Niqo Bien: A special treat tonight was the performance of a couple from Bulgaria who competed in the Buenos Aires Festival of Tango. Although they were not the winners they were among the finalists. Many of the festival tango dancers were still in town and turned out tonight at Niqo Bien. We had to say goodbye to Ines, our enthusiastic Tango Friend from Colombia who lives in Paris. Friday the 14th Milonga de Los Consagrados: Friday s turnout of dancers is lighter than other afternoons of this milonga. This means more space on the dance floor! It was a special milonga for Jocelyn of Alaska during her stay in Buenos Aires. Today she was surprised and emotional when organizers Enrique Rosich and Ruben presented her with a bouquet of flowers honoring her for her visit to Buenos Aires. La Baldosa: This evening milonga of the neighborhood of Flores is located in El Pial. It has a large dance floor with very comfortable seating. Tonight we enjoyed one of our favorite orchestras, Sans Souci. Tuesday the 18th Viejo Correo: At tonight s milonga Tango Partners in Buenos Aires and our Tango Friends enjoyed the singing of Maricel, an excellent female tango voice. One piece she performed was a candombe. We were also treated to the dancing of Gonzalo (age 13) and Roxana (age 15), students of Nelly Susan. They performed milonga and waltz. Wednesday the 19th Shusheta at Dandy: Tonight we took two classes with professors before the milonga. First with Alejandro Nievas and Natalia Pastorino and then with Damian Esell and Nancy Louzan. We met Harvey from New York. La Nacional: This milonga is especially popular for Wednesday evening. We met several of our Tango Friends of were from Germany, New York and San Francisco. We also met Clara from Washington DC. Thursday the 20th El Arranque: We met Tango Friends from Denver, Colorado and San Francisco for this afternoon milonga. Scott, Darrell, Deb, Brian and Ron from Boulder and Denver, Colorado were enjoying their first milonga experience. Niqo Bien: We met our Tango Friends Marc and Chinny from Toronto, Canada and Harvey, Gloricel and Jorge from New York. Friday the 21st Viejo Correo: Tango Partners in Buenos Aires invited our Tango Friends from New York; Miami, Florida; San Francisco, California; Washington D.C.; Toronto, Canada and Buenos Aires to share a table and dancing tonight. We enjoyed the hospitality and kindness of Marisa Sanchez and Miguel Romero, the organizers of the milonga. Saturday the 22nd La Viruta/La Estrella: With our invited Tango Friends we listened and danced to Color Tango with director Roberto Alvarez. They played two sets tonight and two encores as well. We also enjoyed some salsa, swing and folk dance. We were sorry because we had to say goodbye to Gloricel and Jorge from NY and Ake from Sweden. Tuesday the 25th : We enjoyed the Orchestra of Buenos Aires of Juan de Dios Filiberto with invited Tango Friends. It is always a pleasure to see Nistor Marconi direct the orchestra. Marconi is a great bandaneonist and one of the best interpreters of Astor Piazzolla. He contributes to tango as well with his own compositions and is active in the Argentina School of Tango (Escuela Argentina de Tango). Porteqo y Bailarmn: After the concert we met our Tango Friends from California including Kristen from Los Angeles, Jan from San Diego and Paco from San Francisco and Michele from Miami among others. We also said goodbye to Marc and Chinny who were returning home to Canada. We enjoyed the salsa performance of Marcy and Luciano of Buenos Aires. After that the couple invited all of us to dance not only Salsa but also Cha-Cha-Cha and Merengue. Wednesday the 26th La Shusheta at Dandi: Tango Partners in Buenos Aires enjoyed the milonga tonight with Tango Friends from Florida - Michele from Miami and Linda and Kristen from Tampa. Our friends were impressed with this milonga. They enjoyed the friendly and warm atmosphere. La Shusheta plays a tanda of swing, salsa and Chacarera as well during the evening. Thursday the 27th Niqo Bien: We met with our invited Tango Friends from Florida and were joined by Marga from Germany. We also met with Ann, Spartac, and Jan from the East Bay in California. Friday the 28th Viejo Correo: We helped our Buenos Aires Tango Friend, Daniel, celebrate his birthday tonight with many of our friends from California, Florida, Germany and Buenos Aires. Daniel and his dance partner Adriana exhibited a waltz performance. Tonight we also enjoyed the performance of El Pulpo and Luiza who have a very original and distinctive style of tango. El Pulpo in Spanish means "The Octupus", which gives you an idea about his style. They dance in an open embrace with strong energy and connection between them while arms and legs move slowly, sensually and surprisingly! They danced to Piazzolla with Roberto Goyeneche as a singer. La Viruta: Later we went over to dance at La Viruta. We were entertained as well by the break/tango dance of two very talented young dancers who surprised us with their impromptu solos. Saturday the 29th Club Gricel: We met at Gricel tonight with Tango Friends from Tampa, Florida, Linda and Kristen and also Michele from Miami, Florida. We were sorry to have to say goodbye to Kristen and Michele who were leaving the next day. Sunday the 30th La Glorieta: We invited our friend Ann from East Bay, California to dance at the outdoor milonga, La Glorieta in Belgrano. La Glorieta is popular with a great mix of dancers. La Glorieta is a large circular covered dance space in Barrancas of Belgrano. Another outdoor dance space in the same park always has salsa dancers on Sundays. Privacy Clause We are in contact with you in order to communicate that Tango Partners in Buenos Aires would like to use the internet as a means of communication in order to put at your disposal, in the form most easily accessible, all types of information relevant to Buenos Aires and Tango here. Tango Partners in Buenos Aires is committed to the guarantee of privacy of all data and information of our users, and for this reason we desire to make known to you certain aspects about the new law. 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