September 09, 2006

Tango in a Korean pop music video

Ok, what she's singing is not exactly tango, but I am still glad to see this. I would like to think it as an indication of how much the Korean tango population grew. :-)

If you are interested in watching a Korean couple dancing, HERE's a sample.

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June 14, 2006

Orquesta Tipica - a Film by Nicolas Ente

Watch this trailer. It's great, an indie documentary featuring the contemporary tango band "Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro". There are some great scenes in here, like where crowd on the street chants to police "Let them play" while a middle-aged man pleads "We want tango, not cumbia that rots kids minds".


Quotes from the band members:

  • "Back in April, we got together with a bass, and a bandoneon player. So we said, since we are three, let's find a violinist and make a quartet. Within a month we went from 4 to 12 members."

  • "Trying to assemble an orquestra tipica back then was already really huge."

  • (The director) "They thought they were a garage band. With the Orquesta, I follow a dogma. The orchestra always comes first."

    • From the producer's description
    Twelve guys looking like punk rockers pushing a piano down the street. Their sound is elaborate but raw. Their music is politically committed while historically linked to counterculture; still, it is part of a genre more than a hundred years old. This is their story. This is Buenos Aires 2006.

    Links

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    May 02, 2006

    Antonio Banderas in "Take The Lead"

    ANTONIO BANDERAS TANGOS IN TAKE THE LEAD
    ANS Entertainment News
    1 min 29 sec - May 1, 2006
    www.artisannews.com

    Antonio Banderas stars in Take The Lead modeled after ballroom dance teacher Pierre Dulaine who brought his program to inner city schools giving kids confidence by teaching them how to waltz, cha cha and do the tango.

    "I have a facility for physicality and physical things in a certain way. I will never be a great dancer but after dancing with Chita Rivera for 228 performances on Broadway I may dare to just play a tango in the movie. In movies you can do that actually but if you go into theater you have to be more careful because its real time. What you see is what it is. There's no where to hide behind anything, you know."


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    September 10, 2005

    A New Tango Documentary

    Igor Polk in San Francisco has written a review of the DVD "Susana Tango Pial"

    It sounds like a very good film, and I look forward to seeing it. People can order the DVD from Igor.

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    January 02, 2005

    Torito's web site

    Rob "Torito" Nuijten of Amsterdam publishes a very interesting, and attractively designed, web site for tango in Netherlands. Links of interest:

    From browsing his "Tango agenda" just now, I learned of the death of Jose Libertella, cited below.

    On a lighter note, Torito reports on a great tango video clip ( "Uniquely Spikey".) from a TV commercial of the Singapore travel industry. (Requires QuickTime).

    Fun: Webmovie commercial spotted: Dancing Tango for Singapore. Bold man with lady in selfmade SM bra. (Who are they, do you know?)

    One must note that Torito takes some very nice tango photographs, as I have mentioned previously.

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    December 30, 2004

    Tango Video Clips

    Dirk Barbier's VideoClips-Gallery has some good stuff.

    Of course, so does mine. (We all seem to be copying from each other.)

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    December 10, 2004

    Por Amor de Tango

    poramordetango1.jpg

    A Toronto tango dancer (Carolyn Dallman Downes) and her friends make a film about what tango improvisation means to them.

    For some time, I had wanted to make a film about what Argentine tango means to me, and what I think it means to the ordinary person who dances just for the love of it. Tango is not the highly choreographed dance we usually see on screen and stage; for the average person, it's about improvisation--the act of being totally present with a partner in the creation of a dance.

    That's not a bad creative group project... a little different than doing a show, and perhaps more personal. We could do something like that in our town.

    Slide show here: Por Amor De Tango. I think a DVD can be purchased from the filmmaker at dallmandownes@sprint.ca.

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    October 31, 2004

    bbc tango documentary

    BBC - BBC Four Dance - La Confiteria Ideal: The Tango Salon

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