Tango Pasion_Falter Sept.03

Tango Pasión
an AIS production
Choreography
HECTOR ZARASPE
Orchestration, Arrangement and Musical Direction
JOSÉ LIBERTELLA & LUIS STAZO
Conceived and Created by
MEL HOWARD
Artistic Direction
JOSÉ LIBERTELLA, HECTOR ZARASPE, MEL HOWARD
The Sexteto Mayor Orchestra:
JOSÉ LIBERTELLA, LUIS STAZO, MARIO ABRAMÓVICH, EDUARDO WALCZAK,
OSCAR PALERMO, OSVALDO AULICINO,
JORGE ORLANDO & JUAN CARLOS ZUNINI
The Dancers
GRACIELA CALO & CLAUDIO ORSO, OSVALDO CILIENTO & GRACIELA GARCIA,
JUAN CORVALAN & VIVIANA LAGUZZI, CLAUDIA DIAZ & ALBERTO MORRA,
VIVIANA FORTINO AND OMAR MAZZEI,
OMAR OCAMPO & MONICA ROMERO, CESAR COEHLO
The Singers
YENI PATIÑO, GUILLERMO GALVÉ
Technical Director & Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRAN RODRIGUEZ
Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARC FOURNEAU
Wardrobe Supervision & Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EMMYLOU LATOUR
Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH ORLINSKY
Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ASHLY DAY
Assistant to Choreographer, Administration & Company Manager . . . . . OSVALDO CILIENTO
Digital Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHELLY ESHKAR
Audiovisual Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RUTH SCHELL
Sets based on paintings by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RICARDO CARPANI
Tango Pasión is insured by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ASSIST – CARD
Production - AIS Productions, Inc. 143 East 27th Street New York, NY 10016
Tel 212 889 6000 Fax 212 889 7052 email [email protected] contact Bonnie Tocwish
Part 1
Title
Composer
Performers
1. MI BUENOS AIRES QUERIDO
Carlos Gardel - Lepera
Sexteto Mayor
2. LA CUMPARSITA
G. Matos Rodriguez
Company
3. ASI SE BAILA EL TANGO (song)
Marvil
Omar Mazzei
4. TANGO DEL ANGEL
Astor Piazzolla
Company
5. MILONGUEANDO EN EL 40
Armando Pontier
Mónica Romero
& Omar Ocampo*
6. MARIA (song)
Troilo y Castillo
Guillermo Galvé
7. MARRON Y AZUL
Astor Piazzolla
Claudia Diaz & Alberto Morra*
8. EL FIRULETE
Mariano Mores
Graciela Calo & Claudio Orso,
Cesar Coehlo & Omar Mazzei
9. ACOMPAÑADA Y SOLA (song)
Chico Novarro
Yeni Patiño
10. ORLANDO GOÑI
Alfredo Gobbi
Graciela Garcia & Osvaldo Ciliento*
11. EL INTERNADO
Francisco Canaro
Viviana Fortino & Omar Mazzei*
12. BANDONEON
Astor Piazzolla
Jose Libertella
13. POEMA VALSEADO (song)
Astor Piazzolla,
Horacio Ferrer
solo violín: Eduardo Walczak
and Yeni Patiño
14. MILONGA CARRIEGUERA (song) Astor Piazzolla,
Horacio Ferrer
15. TANGATA DEL ALBA
Astor Piazzolla
Guillermo Galvé
Yeni Patiño, Juan Corvalan,
Alberto Morra, Claudio Orso
16. MILONGA DE LA ANUNCIACIÓN Astor Piazzolla,
(YO SOY MARÍA)
Horacio Ferrer
Yeni Patiño
17. TANGO DEL ANGEL
Astor Piazzolla
Company
18. A FUEGO LENTO
Horacio Salgán
Sexteto Mayor
piano solo: Juan Carlos Zunini
19. QUEJAS DE BANDONEON
Filiberto
Company
*Based on the original choreography of the dancers. This program may be subject to changes.
Part 2
Title
Composer
Performers
1. LO QUE VENDRA
Astor Piazzolla
Company
2. TANGUERA
Mariano Mores
Viviana Laguzzi & Juan Corvalan*
3. SELECCION DE MILONGAS
Pintín Castellanos,
Pedro Laurenz,
Angel Villoldo
Omar Mazzei, O. Ocampo,
Alberto Morra, Cesar Coehlo
4. MILONGA SENTIMENTAL
Homero Manzi,
Sebastián Piana
Yeni Patiño, Omar Mazzei,
O. Ocampo, Alberto Morra
5. MALA JUNTA
Julio De Caro,
Pedro Laurenz
Graciela Calo & Claudio Orso*
6. CELOS
Jacobo Gade
solo violín: Mario Abramovich
Cesar Coehlo & Yeni Patiño,
Viviana Laguzzi & Juan Corvalan,
Graciela Garcia & Osvaldo Ciliento
7. MILONGA PICARESCA
Astor Piazzolla
Viviana Fortino & Omar Mazzei*
8. ALMA, CORAZON Y VIDA (song) Adrian Flores
Yeni Patiño & Guillermo Galvé
9. DESDE EL ALMA
Rosita Melo
Sexteto Mayor
10. LA MUERTE DEL ANGEL
Astor Piazzolla
Cesar Coehlo, Graciela Calo,
Graciela Garcia, Viviana Laguzzi
11. LIBERTANGO
Astor Piazzolla
Sexteto Mayor
12. TANGATA
Astor Piazzolla
Company
13. JEANNE Y PAUL
Astor Piazzolla
Company
14. VERANO PORTENO
Astor Piazzolla
Juan Corvalan, Omar Ocampos
15. FUGA Y MISTERIO
Astor Piazzolla
Viviana Laguzzi, Alberto Morra,
Omar Mazzei, O. Ocampo
16. TANGATA
Astor Piazzolla
Company
17. ADIOS NONINO
Astor Piazzolla
Sexteto Mayor
18. LA CUMPARSITA G.
Matos Rodriguez
Company
19. ONDA 9
Astor Piazzolla
Company
*Based on the original choreography of the dancers. Program subject to changes.
Tango Pasión
Where the Soul of Argentina Meets the Magic of Broadway
The tango, a mythical dance tied to love and seduction, was born 100 years ago in the
brothels of Buenos Aires, and only became a socially acceptable ballroom dance at
the turn of the century when Parisian society embraced it. The tango swept the world
in the 1920s with the songs of the legendary Carlos Gardel, as well as with Rudolph
Valentino’s smoldering tango scene in the film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Tango Pasión creates an evening peopled with characters from the different
strata of Argentine society. Their interaction puts the dancing in context, building
drama and providing the subtext of the show’s worldly humor. “The only limit to the
vocabulary of the tango, aside from certain rules of style and form, is the limits of
your imagination and passion. The tango is the eternal battleground between a man
and a woman, it is the definitive act of love…in stylized form, of course,” notes producer-director Mel Howard.
The split-second timing and flawless variations derive in part from the longevity of the artists’ performing together. The company of 25 dancers, singers, and musicians has toured world-wide since 1994. The dancers include several married couples who have been dancing together for years, “until they can breathe as one,” says
choreographer Hector Zaraspe.
The Tango Pasión company has changed programs six times over the years, covering the tango repertory from the music of the 1900s through the tango music of
today.
The newest tenth-anniversary program leans heavily on the music of Astor Piazolla.
The new program is based in part on Piazolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires, in which Maria, a young woman disillusioned with men, finds herself and renewed hope as she
falls in love once again.
The musicians of the Sexteto Mayor have been performing together for over 30
years. Tango Pasión has played in front of over two million spectators in its 10 years
of touring the major stages of Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and the US, including a stay on Broadway.