The Lyric Theatre Presents
Tango Buenos Aires: The Fire and Passion of Tango
Dance comes to the Ovation Concert Series with one of Argentina’s premier companies, in a night of dramatically sensual, technically superb tango.
Buenos Aires is known internationally as the city where tango music and dance was nurtured . . . and Tango Buenos Aires is known as one of Argentina’s greatest cultural exports. This immensely talented ensemble is universally acclaimed throughout the Americas, Europe and the Far East as the most authentic and uncompromising representative of the Tango.
Tango Buenos Aires’ “The Fire and Passion of Tango” presents the modern history of Tango by introducing the ways the dance has evolved in modern times. Love, fire, passion and seduction are key elements to this performance.
The Argentine Tango has a mixture of African and Spanish antecedents, and a strong influence from the Argentine milonga (which is sung by Gauchos, or cowboys). In its beginnings, the Tango was an ill-famed dance, because it was fashionable in dance halls and cabarets – and also because its choreography called for the couple to hold each other closely. Tango choreography allows for a great deal of creativity, and requires perfect coordination between the dancers.
Tango Buenos Aires was first created for the “Jazmines” festival at the famous Buenos Aires cabaret “Michelangelo,” by renowned composer and tango director Osvaldo Requena. The company immediately met with tremendous success, and has enjoyed worldwide fame for decades. This is their first performance at the Lyric.
