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Topics of the day:
1. "Tango Fusion" NY Times Review
2. Festival Internacional BUENOS AIRES TANGO
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:24:50 -0500
From: Richard Lipkin <ezie @EROLS.COM>
Subject: "Tango Fusion" NY Times Review
You can read the NY Times review of "Tango Fusion", which had a brief
run last week here in NYC, by clicking on:
http://www.nytimes.com/99/12/07/news/arts/recent-performances.html
or:
Daring to Tango, With a Light Heart
'Tango Fusion'
American Theater of Actors
New York City is awash with tango shows. There is "Tango
Argentino" on
Broadway, of course, and a popular tango revue at Theater
East. But "Tango
Fusion," presented on Saturday afternoon at the American
Theater of Actors,
must be the happiest celebration of that dance to arrive in
the city for a very long
time.
"Tango Fusion" is clearly a labor of love for Diane Lachtrupp
and her charming
troupe. The backdrop looked like a bedsheet and the theater
and stage floor were
more than a little ramshackle. But the production values,
music and imaginative
staging and choreography were first-rate.
Many of the 16 dance numbers were blessedly traditional. But
Ms. Lachtrupp, a
ballroom dance performer and teacher at the Stepping Out
school, has an
unusually knowing and witty way of fusing disparate dance
styles. And two
group numbers, "Modernes" and "El Gato Triste," are the dance
equivalent of
sleek French bedroom farce, with the performers handing one
another along
through tightly knit choreography and just about every
romantic permutation
imaginable.
The dancers do not have the patina of the older performers in
"Tango Argentino."
But they know what they are doing and do it with passion,
skill and sly humor.
Each of the eight dancers -- Ms. Lachtrupp, Johnny Martinez,
Carlos Acuna, Jak
Karako, Sarah La Rocca, Tioma Maloratsky, Audrey Martinez and
Mariana Parma
-- brings a vivid individuality to the choreography.
There was a similar vitality to the music, performed by
Tanguardia, made up of
Hector Castro (bandonion), Franccinito (violin), Pancho
Navarro (guitar) and Bob
Telson (piano). The program also featured stylish projected
photographs by Jan
LaSalle, atmospheric lighting by Alexandra Pontone, and taped
commentaries on
the tango that were amusing, poignant and thought-provoking.
Part of the fun of "Tango Fusion," which was directed by
Michael Yawney, was its
easygoing inclusion of the audience in an onstage tango
lesson, a "design your
own tango" number and post-performance dancing on the stage.
Sadly, the limited
run ended on Sunday.
JENNIFER DUNNING
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:38:46 -0300
From: Lidia Ferrari <lferrari @FEEDBACK.NET.AR>
Subject: Festival Internacional BUENOS AIRES TANGO
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