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Tango Championships 2009
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009

trophy_thumb_is.jpgThe 4th Australian Tango Championships will be held on July 11 at the Sir John Clancy Auditorium in Kensington, Sydney. Heats are being held at milongas around the country.

Heats have already been held in Buenos Aires where the winners of the Salon section of the Championship are already practising for the Final in August. This year there are a number of new sections including Vals and Milonga... you can watch the Vals champions, Christhiana Sosa and Lida Mantovani here.

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Last Updated ( Friday, 03 July 2009 )
 
Tango at the Australian Dance Festival
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Thursday, 18 June 2009

The first Australian Dance Festival was a weekend of everything from ballet, though ballroom, bellydancing and Bollywood to Salsa and Swing!! -and tango was there. Two schools, Patio de Tango from Sydney and the Juan Rando Dance Academy from Perth performed, as did the World Tango Salon Champions, 2008 Chistina Sosa and Daniel Nacucchio. Below are two of the performances.


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Patio de Tango's performance was improvised by students and teachers from this tango school  in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

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Students from Perth's Juan Rando Dance Academy, some of the quite new to tango, danced to 'La Rosa' by Vale Tango, choreographed by Amanda Metcalf, one of the school's principals.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 July 2009 )
 
Tangi Argentini
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009

Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.
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An office clerk with a hankering to learn to tango enlists the support of a workplace colleague as he prepares for a date. It's Christmas time and the concept of giving assumes fairy tale proportions in this beguiling modern story.

Thanks to Arlene's London Tango Blog for pointing us to this gem.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 June 2009 )
 
NEWS!! Tango immersion weekend for musicians
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009

maggie_bandoneon.jpgTangoOZ Escuela, a weekend school to promote the history and performance of authentic orchestral tango is a new initiative of Maggie Ferguson (pictured left) and Susanne James, CEO of the Sydney Youth Orchestra. The weekend held on 18-19 July is open to tango enthusiasts, conductors, teachers and music students over the age of 14 years. Maggie is the director and conductor of Tango Oz, one of 9 orchestras of the Sydney Youth Orchestras and Australia’s first authentic tango orchestra.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 June 2009 )
 
NEWS!! 'Tango's Violin' on Stage
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Friday, 12 June 2009
tangos_violin_cast_2007_thumb.jpgThe creation of Sophie Kesoglidis, ‘Tango’s Violin’  is ‘a show about passion, anguish and power that is tango’ that has played to sell-out audiences in Melbourne at the Famous Spiegeltent and in Perth, where they perfomed at the 1st Perth Tango Festival in 2005. 

With Fabio Robles and Ana Andre, former Australian Stage Tango Champions, (pictured) as the leading dancers, the production also features ‘red dash black’ the band formed in 2005 with the “aim of performing [tango] music with dancers”.


Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 June 2009 )
 

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