915 Double-Concert "Color Tango" & "Sexteto Canyengue" during TangoMagia V in Amsterdam on dec. 29th, 2002
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 01:48:02 +0100
From: Chris Luethen <christian.luethen@GMX.NET>
Subject: Double-Concert "Color Tango" & "Sexteto Canyengue" during TangoMagia V in Amsterdam on dec. 29th, 2002
Hola!
As many of you know: On december 29th, 2002 "Color Tango" from Buenos
Aires and "Sexteto Canyengue" from the Netherlands were performing
together an "Homage to Osvaldo Pugliese" on the occasion of the
"TangoMagia V"-Festival in Amsterdam. [official website:
https://www.tangomagia.com/] Also Osvaldo Pugliese's widow was
present, speaking to us!
"Sexteto Canyengue" opened the evening with a solo-set. Then "Color
Tango" took over with another solo set. After the interval "Color
Tango" played again for us before the big moment arrived: "Color
Tango" and "Sexteto Canyenue" were forming one "Orqesta tipica" - in
memoriam to Osvaldo Pugliese! At the end of the concert even former
2nd Bandoneon-player of "Sexteto Canyengue" joined: 5 bandoneons, 4
Violins, 2 double-basses, 2 pianos live on stage!
"La Yumba", even more powerfull as allways, formed the end of the
concert ... followed by standing ovations!
It was a concert not to forget!
For those of you who could attend as well for those of the big
international tango crowd who came over to the Netherlands for the
annual tango festival season "in between the year's" I'd like to
share some of my photographic memories. I've upload some photographs
of this unforgetable night to my website. You can find them in the
"Tango Traveller" section filed under "Amsterdam". The website's
address is https://www.eTanguero.net/
I hope you enjoy!
Best wishes for the new (tango) year to all of you!
Christian
P.S.: I am neither a professional tango person nor a professional
photographer. Tango is my hobby, no more. Therefore do not expect too
much. But if you'd like to comment: Please do so. I'd appreciate any
input.
--
christian.luethen@gmx.net
https://www.eTanguero.net/
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:10:07 -0400
From: Sergio <Cachafaz@ADELPHIA.NET>
Subject: Canyengue
Mr. Joaquin Concha says:
"I have seen the late Rodolfo Cieri dance
canyengue with Maria Cieri,
and I do not believe that she ever held her "left arm around his neck
all the way to the other side (his left shoulder)".
I had said before :
"***It is important to remember that tango as
music and dance has been
evolving, changing. The spirit of the dance is one of freedom and
improvisation. This causes that there are as many dance forms as dancers.
Every one has his own style, dances in a different way a product of his
personality. Some ways of dancing are more frequent than others. Some moves
come to fashion and then they almost disappear."
I am totally in agreement with Joaquin. Canyengue may be danced in many ways
as all the other tango forms.
Some people will use the 'Gaucho hold' this is to say the left hand of the
man receives the right of the lady and he places both hands on his left
waist.
They may alternate this hold with the usual one, the same as the lady may
alternate moving her left arm around the neck of the man as it is done in
salon style, from the back of his neck to his left arm as necessary to
dance.
Please visit the page www.buenosairestango.com/s/lym/fotos.htm
Here you will see the Canyengue tango hold as previously described.
Luis Grondona is an old milonguero who has been dancing canyengue since his
youth. He was instructed by Tito Lusiardo 1896-1982.
A famous dancer and movie actor. He appears in numerous Argentine Tango
movies filmed between 1933 and 1982.
His movies can be seen today, the tango style danced at the beginning of the
century is represented in his movies.
Please visit www.cinenacional.com/personas/?personas905 to see his
filmografia. 44 movies in which tango can be seen as danced then.
This is one of multiple examples, videos did not exist at the time but we
can see the movies.
will continue.
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:31:10 -0400
From: Daniel Saindon <gardien@TANGO.MONTREAL.QC.CA>
Subject: CANYENGUE
Good morning
CANYENGUE is a subject that I affectionate
because I like the tango culture as a whole and
because CANYENGUE is a distinctive element
from the tango culture that needs to be kept alive.
It is my belief that if it was not because of a few
individual couple that I could count with the fingers
of one hand, CANYENGUE as a dance would have
disseappear with the general indifference between
1965 and 1990 a laspe of about two generations of dancers.
CANYENGUE is alive in Montreal and Quebec city
although it is not thriving and probably never will be
and we know why: simply becauase CANYENGUE as a dance
is difficult to dance on a (half)-crowded dance floor.
There are a lot of back steps and this calls for problems
with the dynamic of salon dancing. Therefore CANYENGUE
is better left for choreographies. There is also a lot of
presentation that are labelled CANYENGUE that are
good attempts at the style but does not deliver. One
example is the CANYENGUE in the movie TANGO by
Carlos Saura taht a purist of canyengue would not
consider as such. CANYENGUE is also difficult to keep
fresh; I have seen tango teachers that took Canyengue
lessons from CANYENGUE Masters, and were able to
reproduce it for some time but have lost the flavor
2-3 years after their training
In Montreal and Quebec CIty we are lucky to have a
few practioners and teachers in CANYENGUE.
My favorite one is Boguslaw Dygaziewich of Quebec
City who often come to Motnreal. He is a devoted
and enthousiastic practicioner; His style is very
elegant. He will perfrom for your milonga if you ask him.
He learned his CANYENGUE from Martha Anthony &
Luis Grodona. To my knowledge, Martha & Luis Grodona
have the best organized course in CANYENGUE available
today: It is also available on video cassettes.
Another Montreal disciple of the Grodona`s is Lyne Renaud
of AL SUR. ( By the way, Lyne is the person who invites
Gustavo Naviera in two weeks. ).
Gerardo Sanchez is also a big local promoter of CANYENGUE.
( By the way, Gerardo organizes a big tango festival next month,
with COLOR TANGO and many dancers from the "Association of
Argentine Tango dancers & choreographers of Buenos Aires".
Gerardo Sanchez received his CANYENGUE training from
the mythical PALERMO of Buenos Aires. I do not know if
PALERMO still provide lessons but even if his teachings
are not as well organized as the Grodonas, his appreciation
of CANYENGUE is not to be missed. For PALERMO
there exist an optimal pattern of CANYENGUE for about
any musical phrase of canyengue. His teacchings are very
difficult to take but are priceless and are aa precious as
a piece of archeology.
Another local practitioner is Paul Destropor that you might be
able to see in our milongas; His style uses less imagination
in the foot work but his style is reminiscent of the tango
thatused to be danced by people who DID NOT take tango
lessons. ( If you watch the movie SUR, there is about
45 seconds of dancing while Nestor Marconi plays
the bandoneon, that show this style of dancing promoted
by people who danced tango before the code of A.T. dancing
was invented.
As it happens very often with the dance experience, dancers enjoy
the music only when they are dancing the steps that goes with it.
I had little interst into CANYENGUE music before I learned to
dance the steps. Once you have learned the steps you enjoy the
music and when the music plays you imagine doing the steps
in your mind.
CANYENGUE is mostly suitable for early tango music.
ORQUESTA TIPICA VICTOR is one of them along
with Francisco LOMUTO, FILIBERTO, Roberto FIRPO.
One of my favorite is early CANARO, like the Canaro
from the GUARDIA VIEJA; some practitioners from
the PALERMO school think it is too slow but I find it
still very adequate and "ludique", meaning "fun".
TUBATANGO is also adequate, faster; you can also
dance the milonga on TUBATANGO because of the steady
beat, Canyengue aficionado prefer the two distinctive parts
of the Canyengue rhythm; What makes TUBATANGO
canyengue is the music where you can sink your feet into
the ground ( as opposed to caressing the floor in regular A.T. ).
I am not a fan of 'Los Muchachos de Antes'. I actually consider this
CD one of the worst CD in the Tango repertoire; I think everything
is bad about this CD. It is the kind of CD that you tossed away
outside the window after listening.
Among the moderns, I am a big fan of Miguel Villasboasx from
Uruguay. ( He has about 6-7 CDs His waltzes are irresistible on the dance
floor,
there are 1 or 2 per CD ) ) but his tango are real CANYENGUES.
The pure style of tango CANYENGUE is difficult to dance with standard A.T.
What is real special about VILLASBOAS is that he reproduces
with modern sound techniques the musical esthetics of the 1920s
with all the instruments given the same weight like in a
"fanfare", a "charanga" of a military band. To me, this is precious,
and need to be, like CANYENGUE, further promoted.
Daniel Saindon
Tanto Montreal
" All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting " Friedrich Nietzche
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:39:36 -0700
From: Bruno <romerob@TELUSPLANET.NET>
Subject: Re: CANYENGUE
Maria del Carmen Silingo in her book Tango Danza Tradicional Metodo - Level
2 (Editiorial Plus Ultra 1992) argues that in Buenos Aires given that the
dance is still in its infancy culturally speaking (+100 years) it is
impossible to create modern tango without having learned to dance the
Canyengue and the Traditional forms of the Tango dance. She has been
spearheading making Tango part of the educational curricula in the school
system in Argentina.
I would be in favor of makng the Canyengue and the Traditional tango be part
of the AT dance lessons outside Argentina so one would get the overall
picture of the dance, and the move forward with creating modern tango.
Regards,
Bruno
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:45:44 -0700
From: Rick FromPortland <pruneshrub04@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Color Tango
Their music is so beautiful & rewarding to dance to; music that actually
sounds like something. I never tire of it.
.
The keyboards, strings, bandoneons sound like real instruments.
I hope someday the Golden Age music sounds this good. That
would be too cool...
.
"A Evarsisto Carriego", "Mala Junta", "La Mariposa", "Gallo Ciego",
"Ilusion de me vida", "La Luciernaga" & more.
