Archive for May, 2010
Poster: Si Sos Brujo film showing
Anna Gilbert’s design for the One Longfellow Square showing of “Si Sos Brujo: A Tango Story”
Anna Gilbert’s Poster for the June 8, 2010 film showing
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Si Sos Brujo: A Tango Story
A film by Caroline Neal--Highly Recommended:
“A magnificent and moving film about how to save an ancient art and keep it alive.”
Special Mention of the Jury, Toulouse Film Festival.
“You have to learn to play music on the bandstand,” says jazz-great, Wynton Marsalis. “The first row isn’t close enough.” But what’s a young tango musician to do when all the great players have long-ago retired or even died?
Frustrated by his attempts to transcribe the Golden Age tango orchestras of the 1940s off scratchy records found in old bookstores, double bass player Ignacio Varchausky sets out to create the Tango Orchestra School in Buenos Aires. The task is daunting: no funding, no teachers, and certainly no curriculum.
In this clip, Wynton Marsalis talks about the Tango Orchestra School
“You’d have to be a magician, a brujo, to make that happen,” everyone tells him. Ignacio finally convinces the legendary and much-loved 82-year-old musician, composer and orchestra leader, Emilio Balcarce to help. But life imitates art: almost 50 years earlier Balcarce had written a tango called “Si Sos Brujo” (“If you’re a wizard”).
From the very conception of the Tango Orchestra School, film director Caroline Neal was present, recording the rehearsals, the first performance in a small neighborhood tango club, the international debut in Paris, and the triumphant night in the fabled Colón Theater. Her film creates a portrait of oral transmission from one generation to another, between Emilio Balcarce and the young students, in a magical journey through the tango tradition.
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Seminars with Javier Rochwarger May 12 and May 19
MAY 12, at 8:30 PM Tango Salon Sequences
(some experience with dancing tango is assumed)
Salon-style tango is danced in crowded small spaces. It is a slow, measured and smoothly executed style of tango. This class will teach you better technique for smoother turns, and how to transition between close and open embrace.
MAY 19, at 6:30 PM Looks good, feels good — Elegant fundamental movements
(a class for all levels, beginners are encouraged to come to this class)
Learn the basic movements of tango well, if you are a beginner. Take your fundamentals to a new level if you have already been dancing tango. Javier will teach you how to make all your movements more intentional and fluent.
MAY 19, at 8:30 PM More Tango Salon Sequences
(some experience with dancing tango is assumed)
A second class from Javier that will focus on the smooth and solid Salon-style tango. You will learn another sequence and how to do it fluidly.
WHERE: Maine Ballroom Dance is located at 614 Congress Street in Portland.
FEES: $20 for one class, $35 for two classes, or $50 for all three classes.
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