In its third consecutive edition held in the city of Buenos Aires, of the 14 al 18 February, this proposal created, produced and directed by Argentine dancer Francisco Forquera it goes beyond a choreographic-musical show. It is the starting point for what will be an interdisciplinary work that will be in Shanghai, in April next.
By Marcos Napoli
Image: Francisco Forquera in Buenos Aires: starting point for Shanghai, in April next. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
The dizzying pace regain the city streets once the "quiet" January does not dent the fervor that the artist Francisco Mendoza Forquera dedicated to every detail of a new challenge. His constant performances and intense teaching in United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, he settled in China, country in which artistically directs the China Association of Tango Argentino, Carlos Gardel School, Championship Argentine Tango and Tango Essence Club. There he forged a career of sustained growth that today it ranks as an unavoidable gender.
Its comprehensive concept in the formation of the culture of tango goes beyond teaching dance itself. Seminars, subjects related to history, The technique, contextualization and physical preparation are some of the pillars that make up your personal stamp on the tireless work that took him to the East with a project that motivates, and how, day to day.
And Buenos Aires has since 2017 Tango Essence Festival. His recent edition included a start for four days with master classes at the Regional Center Leonesa.
Saturday 16 The gala took place at the iconic and beautiful Palacio San Miguel, area of stately architecture. There, a delicate and exquisite cuisine accompanied a show of dyes reminisced about the times of the great halls that harbored the years with imprint of tanguero splendor.
Forquera able to build an artistic staff to rise to the occasion. He outlined one night consists of six dancing couples, Tango Ensemble Orchestra solid and authoritative voice in matters like Guillermo Fernández.
With musical direction and arrangements by Cristian Zárate, dancers took the stage Gisela Natoli and Forquera own, Natalia Lavandeira and Roberto Reis, Julieta Cappiello and Alvaro Salas, Fernando Gracia and Sol Cerquides, Guillermina Quiroga and Mariano Morando Loguidice and Ayelén with Sebastián Martínez.
High-level performances, impeccable techniques, each pair provided a variety of resources that exhibited justeza, skill and dedication. He breathed and danced tango amply.
Without a doubt, the idea of resuming the essence of the genre with a deep choreographic journey, stylist, punctilious and refined, He had a magnificent result. The benefits of the breadth and spaciousness chosen for this proposal contributed to the Palacio San Miguel was a theatrical frame without rivalry.
The inclusion of two more neoclassic choreography created by guest teachers Sergio Yanelli and Viviana Cochella and who carried out Esteban Schenone, Martinn Kabermater, Marcos Becerra, Frederic Campos, Belén Arce, Marina Room and Rocio Prina, They brought an innovative touch and a presence that surely will intensify and will work with Forquera in future commitments.
The task impeccable musicians Pablo Agri (fiddle), Nicolás Enrich (bandoneón), Karmen Rencar (violoncello), Esteban Falabella (guitar) and Roberto Tormo (double bass) in scores that included the authors Astor Piazzolla, Osvaldo Pugliese, Eduardo Rovira, Anibal Troilo, Juan de Dios Filiberto, Osvaldo Belingieri, Juan Carlos Cobian and Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, among others.
The Tango Essence Festival closed its edition on Monday 18 at the Metropolitan Theater on Corrientes Street with a program that although the aforementioned performance revived, He incorporated a greater repertoire for orchestra, dancers and singer Guillermo Fernández.
This proposal will be for the first time in China in April and May next, Shanghai when it develops what both the multifaceted Francisco Forquera in his capacity as Director, choreographer, dancer and teacher emphasizes "a comprehensive interdisciplinary work, anchored at the root of one of the cultural heritages in Argentina, the tango.
There will be, also show, exhibitions, talks, projections, seminars and classes with prestigious teachers. The aim is to provide a thorough training in the subject for the whole community tanguera China ".
Source: Balletin Dance.com – 10 March 2019
