Royce Hall at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
Tango: Historias Breves illuminates tales of life, love and passion with eight award-winning dancers and a talented ensemble of live musicians. Dancer and choreographer Guillermina Quiroga, along with her company, captures the passion and sensuality of the tango.
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This program was supposed to tell stories thru tango with an influence of ballet and to some extent that was true. Unfortunately the development of the premise was lacking polish and the dancers were not great but more like adequate with the exception of Ms. Quiroga and a couple of the men. If you were lucky to have seen the great argentinian ballet dancer Julio Boca bring his Boca Tango show a few years ago you would have seen what this project should have been like.
great!
Not what I expected. So so.
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Following their rapturously received, sold-out run in New York City in 2006, the internationally renowned Argentinean dancer Guillermina Quiroga and her thrilling company return to the U.S. in their first North American tour.
Best known in this country for her stunning work with the smash hits Tango x2, Forever Tango and Tango Argentino, the classically trained Quiroga is one of Argentina’s premier tango dancers, hailed by The New York Times for her “lyrical grace,” “incredibly deft, snappy footwork” and “spectacular feats (a leg held behind her head as she turned, astonishing backbends).”
Intertwined with some of Argentina’s best poetry, music, and sensuous dance, Tango, Historias Breves brings us closer to stories of life, love and passion and delves deeply into the fundamental role destiny plays. Quiroga and her partner Claudio Villagra will be joined by three couples and the group Los Cosos de al Lao, led by conductor and bandoneon player Gustavo Paglia.
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