Hi all,
We are receiving a great level of interest in this first tango festival of
the Carolinas ( http://www.tangophilia.com/festival2006/ )!
We have 100+ registrants completed their registrations for the festival's
events by the early registration deadline.
In addition to participants from our own area, the Triangle and North
Carolina we have guests coming from SC, VA, TN, FL, NJ, NY, and OH.
We will be hosting one of the world's best teaching and performing couples
in Argentine Tango: Fernanda Ghi & Guillermo Merlo. There is so much to say
about Fernanda & Guillermo but I have just this one message to send. So,
please visit: http://www.fernandaguillermo.com/intro.htm
to read more about this couple.
We will also have one of the best contemporary tango orchestras in US and
around the world: Tango Lorca, the quintet from Kansas City (more
information on Tango Lorca is below). For this visit to North Carolina,
Tango Lorca has two surprises for us: their amazing violin player Christine
Brebes will be playing for us after spending 2.5 years in Buenos Aires
playing with the major orchestras there including playing for Miguel Angel
Zotto's show (you can read about Christine at:
http://www.lawrence.com/news/2004/jan/25/an_american/ )! Another surprise
member of Tango Lorca will be Héctor Del Curto, the bandoneon player who
will play with the group at Parizade milonga, Jan.21. Hector traveled the
world both as soloist and chamber musician, sharing the stage with the
worldrenowned tango composers Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese, and
ballet dancer Julio Bocca, to name some. In Buenos Aires, Del Curto had won
the title of Best Bandoneón Player under 25 when he was only 17 years of
age, and he was later to receive the Golden Note Award from the
ItalianAmerican Network in recognition of his artistic achievements
(1999). As conductor, Del Curto directed the spectacular show "Forever
Tango" on Broadway (more about Hector is available at:
http://www.hectordelcurto.com/bio.html ). Hector will join the musicality
workshop that Tango Lorca and Fernanda & Guillermo will be teaching on
Saturday as the last workshop of the day at Durham Arts Council.
We will have Victor Crichton from Tampa/Florida where he teaches and
performs tango regularly, to teach some of our workshops, to perform with
us and to DJ our milongas. Victor is also a well known tango DJ in US who
is invited to several national tango festivals, so, be ready for a treat!
Another guest is Jackie Ling Wong from Massachusetts who is also a
wonderful instructor, performer and DJ. Her collection of traditional,
modern and alternative tangos will keep you on the floor even when you
think you cannot dance anymore :-)
And of course, Jason Laughlin and Gülden Özen are on our list of faculty,
DJs and performers for this first Tango Festival in the Carolinas!
We also have a surprise tango interpretation/performance by the local dance
group Choreo Collective members along with all the traditional and
contemporary tangos performed by our faculty at the Gala Night we will host
on Jan.20 in Durham at the Armory.
And last but not the least, we will have Viviana tango shoes for sale at
our events starting Friday afternoon! You can see the shoes in stock by
visiting http://www.vivianatango.com/vivianatangoshoes.htm and you'll also
be able to see and try them at TDS, Armory and Durham Arts Council next week!
So, we look forward to our very first Tango Festival - "Festival de
Tangophilia -2006" for several days of unique tango experiences!
Hope you can join us!
Abrazos,
Gulden & Jason
www.tangophilia.com
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Tango Lorca
Merge old world tango aesthetics with a sinuous texture of jazz, flamenco
and classical music and you have the immediately distinctive sound of Tango
Lorca. Formed in 1999, this fiery quintet has created a fresh and
continually growing body of original compositions and arrangements equally
suited for the dance hall or the concert stage. While evoking an
undoubtedly Argentine sentiment with classics from the "Golden Age", they
also create new, innovative works with a timeless sense of beauty. Tango
Lorca plays their music with a deep understanding of tradition as well as
an obsessive desire to evolve the art form to new plateaus.
Tango Lorca, competed in New York City's International Tango Music
competition and won trip to Kansas City's sister city Sevilla, Spain. Tango
Lorca has performed and participated in the 6th Cumbre Mundial del Tango in
Sevilla, Spain in March 2005 as the award winning quintet.
Tango Lorca has the particular and exclusive style for playing tango,
interpreting tango in the Argentine way, 'drawing out the music' as one
would 'draw out' one of us in Buenos Aires to dance to it. Tango Lorca
plays in a very lively style, yet dreamily danceable and modern, always
uplifting, and celebrating the feeling of the tango without sacrificing its
nostalgic qualities. We have used the music of this group in our classes,
and it's fully appreciated by both Argentines and those from other
countries. We stand ready to distribute Tango Lorca recordings here, if
asked, and we would be delighted if sometime we can dance to a live
performance. The doors to The School of Tango in Buenos Aires are open to
them. Congratulations." - Claudia Bozzo, founder and director of The School
of Tango (La Escuela del Tango, AC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina
In the year 2001 we arrived to Kansas City to teach argentine tango
workshops. To our surprise, we discovered that this city was discovering
Argentine tango. There were several dancers and an Argentine tango band
which played true Argentine tango. This band, Tango Lorca, was a group
which at that time included guitar, violin, piano and bass. Today it also
has the amazing sound of an accordion which laments and cries like the best
of the bandoneons. Ever since 2001, we have shared with Tango Lorca
unforgettable artistic experiences during joint presentations, and
improvisations that are only possible when musician and dancers can connect
through a single channel: TANGO. Tango Lorca is a testimony of the
evolution of Argentine tango in the US, an evidence of the great interest
which this culture has about our Argentine music which has today become the
music of the world. Because of all of this, we, Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo
Merlo, are very happy to recommend and help in every way we can, to promote
and help this band to become known to all the lovers of Argentine tango.
These musicians create and play tango, and give us the gift of enjoying
live music like in the best golden era of Argentine tango in Buenos Aires,
but with a modern flavor and with the passionate intensity and fine quality
of musicians engaged in perfecting their craft day by day. We hope to keep
listening to more of Tango Lorca, and to share more artistic moments
together. - Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo (Tango Dreams dance Company,
Inc.)
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