Argentine Tango Articles

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The Forum has a Dance Articles section, but the few articles on AT are scattered in. People post articles in the Tango Argentino forum, but the 170 something results I got from searching "article" includes a bunch that are not really articles about AT, so maybe we can have a thread for articles on Argentine Tango.

Since links die or get broken, I suggest putting the link to the original article AND doing a copy/paste that includes the name of the Author of the Article.

Most news or magazine articles seem to be either a review of a performance, or a "DISCOVERY" of Argentine Tango in the local community. The reviews are of performances, usually by people outside of the tango community.The "DISCOVERY" articles usually either have the writer exploring a dance studio and or milonga, or have an interview with someone from the local community who is perceived to have an authentic involvement with the tango community.

If you would like to share the media's portrayal of your local community, or any other articles on Argentine Tango that would interest the forum, this thread is for you.

 

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Review: Gabriel Misse & Analia Centurion

The New York Times reviewed a performance by Gabriel Misse & Analia Centurion in New York City.

The link to the article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/a...alia-centurion-at-dardo-galletto-studios.html

the performances can be seen on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKjHsptPVdw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owZTV-77Zds
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XIa3Pl5mWY
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Have you seen Gabriel & Analia dance? Gabriel & Natalia? What do you think of the article?



Dance Review

Away From Stage, the Tango Turns Revealing and Intoxicating

Gabriel Missé and Analia Centurión at Dardo Galletto Studios

By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

Published: March 7, 2012




Gabriel Missé, a master of Argentine tango and one of the most exciting dancers of our day, made his New York debut in 2008 at Symphony Space, with his partner at the time, Natalia Hills. Over the next two years he and Ms. Hills refined the give-and-take of their collaboration. This was, as several clips of their dancing on YouTube confirm, among the most compelling of all dance partnerships. The breakup of this team in 2011 was cause for real grief.

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Analia Centurión and Gabriel Missé The duo performing in a milonga, a casual gathering of tango dancers, at Dardo Galletto Studios.

Mr. Missé, however, is now back in New York, teaching tango at the Dardo Galletto Studios on West 46th Street for three weeks, and partnering Analia Centurión in a series of three milongas there. Tango can be ravishing in a theater: Mr. Missé ’s appearances at Symphony Space, the Vail Festival and the City Center Fall for Dance festival were intoxicating. Making the tango project theatrically, however, changes its emphasis.


It’s best appreciated in the context of a milonga, a casual gathering for amateur tango practitioners to come together and dance, and an event where a nondancing observer like myself is the exception.
The milongas of New York resemble nothing else in the city. Enter a different world! People of all ages and races come together to form couples in this most formally sensuous genre. (The women’s shoes alone could be a separate art form.) The city has milongas year-round, some in ground-floor bars with dance floors and others in small studios. It’s affecting just to watch the basic beauties of tango style there, with the upper bodies nestling so intimately above the wide range of dynamics and vocabulary shown by the feet, legs and pelvis.
On some evenings the floor clears for a visiting star couple, who then dance about three numbers, hungrily watched and eagerly applauded by the audience of regular participants. When the floor then refills with other dancers, the star man and woman usually join in, taking different partners now and then.
On Tuesday at the Dardo Galletto, Ms. Centurión and Mr. Missé danced three duets. Ms. Centurión — a less virtuoso dancer than Ms. Hills, but still lovely — was all honey, blond and gold in hair, earrings, dress and shoes. Mr. Missé wore a black suit, black shirt and broad red tie. He had recently injured his right hand, which was in a cast.
But he was much as I remembered him. He carries his elegance with a sweet, charming, boyish enthusiasm — until he dances, when those qualities become transformed by music into marvels of phrasing and intense absorption. Ms. Centurión, though without his technical brilliance, is a beautiful dancer; their partnership is felicitous.
It’s tempting to concentrate on the technical highlights of Mr. Missé’s dancing. The roomful of other tango dancers burst into applause at marvels like the rapidly traveling footwork, with heel and toe in rapid trill, as he guided Ms. Centurión across the floor, or the dazzling flourishes of one foot in the air before the dancers took off in a new direction.
And yet, as I remembered from the first time I saw Mr. Missé in a milonga in 2009, some of his footwork is all the more bewildering, even when seen at close quarters. One top-speed coloratura cluster of steps on the spot stops you from analyzing even as you watch, because its arrival is so sudden that its impact is that of an exploding cloud.
Best, though, is to concentrate on the basic beauty of his style, which is essentially legato: gliding, lingering and sweeping across the floor in currents stronger and calmer than the firestorms they often contain. Early in their first duet, he and Ms. Centurión simply paused, together, midphrase: the suspense was masterly. She, her feet moving fast, was marvelous at turning him, he holding a pose while she did so.
The overall mood was one of ardent courtesy, in which he repeatedly helped her glow. In one tiny moment she simply swayed softly from one foot to the other, as if in the most gorgeous kind of indecision. She shares his warmth of personality. Their second duet, in which the fast stitchwork of his feet was at its most amazing, was one of mutual delight and shared wit.
Milongas with Gabriel Missé and Analia Centurión run until March 20 at Dardo Galletto Studios, 151 West 46th Street, 11th floor, Manhattan; (212) 575-0222, dardogallettostudios.com.




A version of this review appeared in print on March 8, 2012, on page C5 of the New York edition with the headline: Away From Stage, the Tango Turns Revealing and Intoxicating