□ Connectango Connection
oct 4 and 5 2007
   


JULIO BALMACEDA AND CORINA DE LA ROSA Since 1996 Balmaceda and de la Rosa have had a unique style leading the latest trends in tango, while maintaining the traditional elegance of ‘tango salón’. Their style represents a combination of fluency, energy, and dynamism. As specialists in ‘tango vals’ and ‘tango salon,’ Julio and Corina have performed on innumerable stages around the world. At present, they are the solo couple of Color Tango Orchestra.

In 1998, Julio and Corina formed part of the cast of the highly acclaimed Broadway production “Forever Tango,” whose cast was nominated for a Tony Award in the category of best choreography. In 1999 they were invited to dance at Carnegie Hall in New York together with Gary Burton, Pablo Ziegler, and Paquito D’Rivera in tribute to the great Astor Piazzolla. They are often asked to participate as instructors in the most prestigious tango festivals in Europe, the US, and Japan. They have their own school in Argentina and take part in all events related to the promotion and dissemination of tango in their country.


  
 
   
 


□ Roxana Fontán
oct 6 2007

   
 
□ Chango Spasiuk
oct 7 2007
PABLO VILLARRAZA AND DANA FRIGOLI are one of the most important couples performing nowadays in the world of tango. Beginning with civic music par excellence and using the body as an expressive instrument to transmit artistic, pedagogical, and therapeutic sensations, they have created a method, "Conceptual Tango Technique" (TTC), which resumes the investigation they conducted more than seven years ago. In 2005 they founded their studio, "Estudio DNI Tango," which is already known globally. At the studio they teach TTC—a method that seeks to create a tango which is based on the study of strength, the balance of the axes, the connection of the partners’ energies, and the natural development of the daily movement of human beings, while it remains mindful of sensuality and aesthetic possibilities.

They participated, in various capacities, in the shows "Tanguera", "Tango, Love and Sex," "Reliquias Porteñas," "Malevo Evolucion Tango" (electronic tango), "Tango Fatal," "Postales de Tango.” Pablo and Dana have performed with today’s most famous orchestras: "El Arranque," "Color Tango," "Los Reyes del Tango," and many others. They starred in the movie "Diarios de Motocicleta," and created choreographies for Maximiliano Guerra for "Tango mirando al sur".

Pablo and Dana have traveled to countries all over the world and participated in prestigious festivals and workshops throughout Germany, Japan, China, Italy, Canada, Chile, Greece, Turkey, Russia, England, Denmark, France, Belgium, Korea, Portugal, and Spain.
PABLO PUGLIESE began his study of the Argentine Tango at the age of nine with his parents, Esther and Mingo, who taught many among the new generation of professional tango dancers. At fourteen, Pablo won the Gold Medal in the Toreneos Juveniles Bonaereces Championship organized by the Ministry of Government and Justice in Buenos Aires. He has since gone on to perform and teach master classes in cities across the United States and around the world, including: Tokyo, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, and Hamburg.

Pablo has been a dancer and choreographer for many shows; he was the tango choreography advisor for Compania Tango Express under the direction of Claudio Hoffman and Pilar Alvarez, and the musical direction of Daniel Binelli. Pablo has shared the stage with the renowned tango musicians and composers, Hector Del Curto and Fernando Otero. He is also a member of Pablo Aslan’s Avantango, with whom he performed at New York’s Town Hall.

Pablo studied under scholarship at the Alvin Ailey School for three years, and at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival during two consecutive summers. He continues his dance education in both modern dance and ballet.
 
NOEL STRAZZA was born in Buenos Aires and studied contemporary dance as a young girl. From 1995 to 1998 Noel was a member of the Contemporary Dance Ballet of the Theatre San Martin, and worked as an assistant choreographer. She began dancing Argentine Tango in 1997, and taught and performed with Pablo Veron in Europe, Australia, Asia, and North America from 2000 to 2005. Noel now lives in Montreal where she regularly performs, choreographs, and teaches.
   


Claudio Iván Remeseira (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1960.) Writer and journalist. Director of the Hispanic New York Project of The American Studies Program, Columbia University. From 2004 to 2007, book reviewer for Diario Rumbo (San Antonio, Texas); in the US, his journalistic and literary work has also appeared in Viva Magazine and Hora Hispana (Daily News) and El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico). From 1998 to 2005, contributor to La Nación, Argentina’s second largest-selling daily. He also held positions in the 100 y finishing his first novel and editing a book on the Hispanic cultural heritage of New York City.

Co-sponsored by the Hispanic New York Project, American Studies Program, Columbia University



Pablo Aslan Argentine-born bassist and composer, is a leading figure in the tango revival. In addition to directing “Avantango,” he is a founder and co-director (with Latin Grammy nominee Raul Jaurena) of “New York–Buenos Aires Connection” and the acclaimed New York Tango Trio. He is a member of the Pablo Ziegler Quintet for New Tango, and has toured the US and Japan with Yo-Yo Ma.

Pablo has performed and recorded with Grammy Award Winner Shakira, Grammy winner and Academy Award nominee Jorge Calandrelli, Latin Grammy nominee pianist Adrian Iaies, Latin Grammy winner Carlos Franzetti, Lalo Shiffrin, Joe Lovano, Gary Burton, Paquito D’Rivera, as well as with the New World Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness, among many others.



Hector Del Curto was born in Buenos Aires. He is a bandoneónist who has traveled the world as soloist and chamber musician, sharing the stage with the world–renowned tango composers Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese, pianist Pablo Ziegler, clarinetist Paquito D´Rivera, ballet dancer Julio Bocca, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington D.C.), Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra, and the Teatro Colón Ballet.

After a Carnegie Hall concert in April 1999 with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and outstanding artists such as Gary Burton, Joe Lovano, Pablo Ziegler, famous tango singers José Angel Trelles and Maria Graña, the New York Times highlighted Héctor´s artistry, making special mention of his "wistful, piercing solos on the bandoneón." At the age of seventeen, Héctor had won the title of "Best Bandoneónist under 25" in Argentina. This award led the tango legend, Osvaldo Pugliese, to invite him to play in his orchestra, which made Héctor the youngest bandoneonist in the history of Pugliese's Orchestra.

As conductor, Héctor directed the spectacular show "Forever Tango" on Broadway, and founded the "Eternal Tango Orchestra" a ten piece ensemble. Since 2003, Eternal Tango Quartet and Orchestra has performed at Lincoln Center Summer Festival, Hudson River Park Trust Moon Dance Series, Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts, Stowe Tangofest (Vermont), Resonance–World Music Festival in Cleveland, Embajada Argentina (Washington), among other festivals and venues. Eternal Tango's debút CD is to be released in late spring of 2007. In addition to running his own projects, Hector is an active member of the Pablo Ziegler Trio and Quintet for the New Tango, Fernando Otero´s X–Tango, and Paquito D´Rivera´s Panamericana Ensemble.

Héctor’s recordings include performances with Osvaldo Pugliese and his orchestra and Astor Piazzolla and the New Tango Sextet on “Finally Together,” with Pablo Ziegler on the albums “Asphalt” and “Quintet for the New Tango,” “Tango Magic” on video and DVD, Fernando Otero X–Tango on the album “Plan,” and Luis Borda Cuarteto on "Linea de Tango.”
               
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