Tango captivates, as literature, music, and dance tell us. From Buenos Aires to Western and Eastern metropolises. Increasingly, among the younger generations of choreographers, it blends with contemporary dance. This happens in Argentina as well as in Europe, aided by migrations, travels, and exchanges. Thus, one of the Italian co-productions of the 2007 Festival, "La Catedral – Nunca antes de la medianoche" (Never Before Midnight) by Luciano Padovani, starts from tango and one of its sacred places to create a story of today.
Padovani, who with his company Naturalis Labor has several creations to his credit and a movement style related to North European contact improvisation, has been exploring the seductive paths of tango for some years now. The new show features him on stage along with his dancers, including his faithful collaborator Silvia Bertoncelli, mixed with an Argentine couple, Walter Cardozo and Margarita Klurfan. The title of the work refers to the name of an old milonga in Buenos Aires, later abandoned, where Padovani imagines a group of people gathering, ready to travel hundreds of kilometers to dance or listen to a musicalizador... A tribe united by a passion. “It is a show,” says the choreographer, “where I aim to achieve an embrace, a fusion between tango, contact improvisation, and contemporary dance, while also trying to tell a story through the fascinating filter of this dance, with its rituals, its glances, its initiations.” A need for dramaturgy, which is, in the choreographer's intent, a key element of the show.
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