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Tango Nuevo
history, music, art film & pop culture Emma Bogren history, music, art film & pop culture Emma Bogren

Tango Nuevo

Starting in the 1990s in Buenos Aires, the Tango Investigation Group (later transformed into the Cosmotango organization) founded by Gustavo Naveira and Fabian Salas applied the principles of dance kinesiology from modern dance to analyze the physics of movement in Argentine tango. Taking what they learned from this analysis they then began to explore all the possibilities of movement within the framework of Argentine Tango.

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Glories of Tango - FERMIN
art film & pop culture Carolyn Attanucci art film & pop culture Carolyn Attanucci

Glories of Tango - FERMIN

Ezequiel is a psychiatrist at a Buenos Aires hospital. He meets 85-year-old Fermin, a man who curiously expresses himself through the lyrics and titles of old tango songs, and is intrigued by his condition which has not improved for decades. As he probes the cause, the pair begins to connect.

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Our Last Tango
history, art film & pop culture Carolyn Attanucci history, art film & pop culture Carolyn Attanucci

Our Last Tango

Our Last Tango“ is above all a love story. A story of love between the two most famous dancers in tango’s history and their tremendous love of tango. María Nieves Rego (80) and Juan Carlos Copes (83) met when they were 14 and 17, and they danced together for nearly fifty years. Despite a rocky relationship, the two continued to dance together because of their undeniable chemistry on the dance floor, making tango a worldwide sensation with their "Tango Argentino" Broadway show in the 1980s.

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The Tango Lesson
art film & pop culture Carolyn Attanucci art film & pop culture Carolyn Attanucci

The Tango Lesson

"Most dances are for people who are falling in love. The tango is a dance for those who have survived it, and are still a little angry about having their hearts so mishandled. The Tango lesson is a movie for people who understand that difference." ~ Roger Ebert

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Tango Libre
art film & pop culture Carolyn Attanucci art film & pop culture Carolyn Attanucci

Tango Libre

In Belgian director Frédéric Fonteyne’s film Tango Libre Mariano ‘Chicho’ Frumboli plays the ringleader of the prison’s tough Argentinean inmates who is asked by the central male character to teach him tango after realizing its physical and emotional importance to his free-spirited wife.

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