Just saw this today... coming to Portland and other cities in the US.
Haven't found any good infomation on this event.
Anyone have a clue?
Haven't found any good infomation on this event.
Anyone have a clue?
The Fire and Passion of Tango
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Lilly_of_the_valley
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I have not heard anything yet, but the girl on the photo seems young and cute, and her costume looks tasteful. Might be a good show. 
joegrohens
New Member
I think you are referring to "Tango Buenos Aires"? That's a show that is booked into primarily university performing arts centers on about a 3-4 year period. It's usually well worth seeing.
But it is not so much a discrete show as a franchise. They do a good job selling it. From talking to the dancers in previous shows, it seems that they tend to pick up their orchestra and choreographer shortly (a few months) before the performances are scheduled to begin, hire dancers, quickly rehearse, and then hit the road.
Each time out it is a different cast. And though I've seen the show three times, I can't say it has any constant themes from one year to the next, other than traditional tango show cliches. A lot depends on who is the choreographer and director, I suppose. Sometimes it seems to have a lot of classical ballet, other times more Forever Tango style material, sometimes a lot of dinner theater stock including boleadoras and zapateados.
I have not seen it yet this year. Coming to my town in February, and I have tickets for sure.
I personally enjoy it always. Some sneer at it as "tango for export".
But it is not so much a discrete show as a franchise. They do a good job selling it. From talking to the dancers in previous shows, it seems that they tend to pick up their orchestra and choreographer shortly (a few months) before the performances are scheduled to begin, hire dancers, quickly rehearse, and then hit the road.
Each time out it is a different cast. And though I've seen the show three times, I can't say it has any constant themes from one year to the next, other than traditional tango show cliches. A lot depends on who is the choreographer and director, I suppose. Sometimes it seems to have a lot of classical ballet, other times more Forever Tango style material, sometimes a lot of dinner theater stock including boleadoras and zapateados.
I have not seen it yet this year. Coming to my town in February, and I have tickets for sure.
I personally enjoy it always. Some sneer at it as "tango for export".
I think this one came through here a couple of years back, and we were all pretty disappointed with it, not because it was "tango for export" (all of them are that, really) but because the dancing was only marginally better than we could do ourselves. We had some visiting teachers here that weekend who went with some locals, and the general consensus of the visitors and the local dancers was.... meh. In fact, the visiting teachers with us would have done a FAR better job, as could many of the guest artists we'd had over the years.
The non-tango folks in the audience loved it though.
jantango
Well-Known Member
new stage productions in Buenos Aires
Puro Tango by Miguel Angel Zotto opens January 4 at Teatro Metropolitano;
and
Tango Compania by Roberto Zuccarino opens January 14 at Teatro Margarita Xirgu. Three salon champions move to the stage, as was expected--Daniel Naccuchio, Dante Sanchez and Sebastian Archaval.
The Fire and Passion of Tango is for you folks up north.
Puro Tango by Miguel Angel Zotto opens January 4 at Teatro Metropolitano;
and
Tango Compania by Roberto Zuccarino opens January 14 at Teatro Margarita Xirgu. Three salon champions move to the stage, as was expected--Daniel Naccuchio, Dante Sanchez and Sebastian Archaval.
The Fire and Passion of Tango is for you folks up north.
Mosca Negra
New Member
Ignoring the merit of any Tango show, we folks up north enjoy a constant stream of Tango shows. I am certain that Maestro Miguel Angel Zotto will take Puro Tango wherever the attendance will provide him profit. This will no doubt include a charity show or two for the unwashed masses of the north.
newbie
Well-Known Member
By the way, passion and fire are never the words that come to my mind when watching people in a milonga. It's more like "Not Quite Dead". The last time I saw fire was when I bumped into a beginner and told him that he was the one who had to apologize, because he was slower than the overall flow of dancers.
Also, why the caps? Is there less fire or passion in "The fire and passion of tango" ?
Joe
Forum Master
Uh, I don't know how they do things in the part of Western Europe that you come from, but typically in the United States, names and titles are capitalized...
Would you write something like, for instance, "frank sinatra singing nice n easy?" In any primary school in the US that would get you a red mark.
Would you write something like, for instance, "frank sinatra singing nice n easy?" In any primary school in the US that would get you a red mark.
newbie
Well-Known Member
In Germany yes, the first letter of a noun is capitalized. Maybe "frank sinatra singing nice n easy" would get you a bad mark in any country because the sentence has no verb, but for instance, using a sentence from the OP,
"Just saw this today... coming to Portland and other cities in the US."
in Germany would be written (that is, with a German translation of course)
"Just saw this today... coming to Portland and other Cities in the US."
while here we capitalize only the first word of a sentence, and the names of people, countries and so on:
"Just saw this today... coming to Portland and other cities in the US."
but not
"Just Saw This today... Coming To Portland And Other Cities In The US."
"Just saw this today... coming to Portland and other cities in the US."
in Germany would be written (that is, with a German translation of course)
"Just saw this today... coming to Portland and other Cities in the US."
while here we capitalize only the first word of a sentence, and the names of people, countries and so on:
"Just saw this today... coming to Portland and other cities in the US."
but not
"Just Saw This today... Coming To Portland And Other Cities In The US."
TangoRocks
Member
Which is not the point, you are confusing "sentences" with "titles."
This is extremely off-topic, of course, but German and English have different capitalization rules when it comes to titles:
NYT Today:
Governor in Pakistan Is Assassinated
Frankfurter Allgemeine Today:
Gouverneur von Punjab erschossen
Clear?
