As usual, Coriole has been another fabulous event for Siempre Tango and the Adelaide tango scene.

Ben has uploaded a few photos courtesy of Inés (aka Rafa’s sous chef). You can see them here

Andrew has also uploaded a selection of photos from Coriole and the workshops.

Enjoy!

Thank you to everyone who assisted to create a great weekend of tango:

• Particularly Pedro and Sophia Alvarez of Patio de Tango for their workshops and performances. Make sure you visit them if you are in Sydney!

• Mark Lloyd and Libby Raupach for again offering their home for another Coriole event.

• Rafael for his fabulous asado cooking…including building the bbq!

• DJ’s Mark & Ben (& Mark for finding the RSL hall that we used Friday night at late notice).

• Andrew for the flyers and tickets..even though he and Kellie had a mad week with house purchasing and were unable to join us very much.

Thanks everyone, hope you had a great weekend.

Megan

Friday night May 9 we will NOT be at the Eastwood Community Centre.

We will be instead at the RSL, 29 Arthur St, Unley, for both workshop #1 (7:00-8:30pm) and the practilonga (8:30-11:30pm).

On the weekend May 9-11, Siempre Tango will again host Pedro and Sophia Alvarez, directors of Sydney based tango company Patio de Tango

Friday May 9

Workshop Number 1 IS FULL
7:00pm to 8:30pm at the RSL, 29 Arthur St, Unley.
Walking with elegance and cadencia

Friday May 9

Practilonga
8:30-11:30pm at the RSL, 29 Arthur St, Unley.
Bring your own drinks and a plate of finger food to share.
Entry: $10pp, no booking required.

Saturday May 10

Workshop Number 2 (a few spaces left)
11:30am to 1:00pm at the North Adelaide Community Centre
Variations on the ocho cortado

Workshop Number 3 (a few spaces left)
1:30pm to 3:00pm at the North Adelaide Community Centre
Buenos Aires style moves (pasos muy porteños)

Saturday May 10

Milonga at Coriole (a few tickets left)
Come along to our favourite milonga venue from 8:00pm until late, with a performace from Sophia and Pedro, a traditional asado supper prepared by the fabulous Rafael as well as dessert. Coriole wines available to purchase. Tickets $30pp.

Sunday May 11

Workshop Number 4 (a few spaces left)
11:30am to 1:00pm at the North Adelaide Community Centre.
Milonga traspie

Each workshop will be $20 per person.

All workshop and milonga bookings can be made through Megan at dance@siempretango.net.au or by phoning 0400 257 027.

We put an article about this concert up last year I think..but now it is just around the corner.

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra are holding a concert entitled ‘Paris to Buenos Aires’ as part of their Masters Series on Friday May 2, 8:00pm and Saturday May 3, 6:30pm at the Adelaide Town Hall.

The concert involves guest conductor Kristjan Jarvi and bandoneon player Carel Kraayenhof.
The pieces they will play are:

• Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
• Messiaen’s L’Ascension
• Piazzolla’s Bandoneon Concerto, Aconcagua
• Ginasteral Estancia: Suite

The blurb for the concert runs as follows:
Sacred and profane: from the unashamed sensuality of Debussy’s languid, dream-like Afternoon of a Faun to the ecstatic and awesome vision of Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent L’Ascension. Then, to Argentina and from the smoky dance halls of Buenos Aires, the soulful strains of the bandoneon with Carel Kraayenhof, whom even Argentinians hail as a hero of the tango movement, in Piazzolla’s Bandoneon Concerto and finally to the vast pampas and the irresponsible exuberance of Ginastera’s Estancia Suite.

Ah, except now many tango halls are smoke free in Buenos Aires!! Tickets are available from BASS on 131 246 and there is a free informative one-hour pre-concert talk at the town hall also.

A really good tango for me is like a 3-minute experience in mindfulness, or meditation. And now, someone is looking at whether that 3-minute hit could assist people with depression.. Think I’m joking? Check this article out. I put the pic of Roger in just because he is smiling!

Biagi (1906, March 14 – 1969, Sept 24)

Rodolfo Biagi was a popular though not prolific composer. He earned his nickname “Hands Bruges” when he was working on the Radio Belgram show.

He was born in San Telmo in Buenos Aires. His career began when he was discovered by the movie maestro Juan Felix Maglio, aka Pacho, (1880-1934), who heard Biagi accompanying silent movies on the piano which he’d been doing for two years since he was thirteen years old. In 1930 Biagi accompanied Carlos Gardel in the recording studio and went on to work with Juan Canaro and Juan D’Arienzo as part of their orchestras and set up his own style of piano playing which was imitated by others.

In 1938 Biagi formed his own group and went on to play in radio shows and appear on television before suddenly dying in 1969.

Information source:
http://www.todotango.com/english/creadores/rbiagi.asp
by Jorge Palacio (Faruk)

I think I’ve put up about 50 links to articles in various papers regarding tango over the past 3-4 years (often referring to the cash crisis in Argentina)... so why not put up another one!!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/tango-and-cash/2008/03/29/1206207492751.html