Los Guardiola: The World's Smallest Tango Show (Tango & mime)

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"LA GARÇONNIÈRE"
El espectáculo de tango mas pequeño del mundo.

Inspirado en el tango "A Media Luz", "LA GARÇONNIÈRE" es un número cómico compuesto de tango y mimo sobre un cubo.
Este último representa metaforicamente el "bulín" o bien el departamento para encuentros amorosos inspirado en la celebre garçonnière situada al segundo piso de Corrientes 348.
Sobre el cubo se produce el encuentro amoroso: un juego de seducción que termina, a causa de vicios mundanos, en un divertido cambio de roles...

Autores e intérpretes: Marcelo Guardiola y Giorgia Marchiori, "Los Guardiola".
Grabado en el Maipo Kabaret del Teatro Maipo,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Video: Carolina Jaureguiberry
www.losguardiola.com





LOS GUARDIOLA - Trailer.
Mimos, bailarines y actores, Marcelo Guardiola y Giorgia Marchiori, artisticamente conocidos como "Los Guardiola", nos proyectan en el fantástico mundo de sus pantomimas danzantes, en donde lo cómico y lo trágico se funden al compás del tango.

Mimes, dancers and actors, Marcelo Guardiola and Giorgia Marchiori, known artistically as "Los Guardiola", project us into the fantastic world of their danced pantomime where comedy and tragedy merge into the rhythm of tango.

Video realizado por Javier Florentino Gorleri en el Teatro Daki Ling de Marsella, Francia.

Foto: Gustavo Cilla

www.losguardiola.com
www.tangoteatro.org

The Molinete - Lead & Follow

I am going to get into this topic in depth in the coming days. You know this ladies - front-side-back or back-side-front - however it was taught/learned.

I have a theory and I want to get some follower input.

Gustavo Naveira y Giselle Anne - Maestro y Maestra

Okay, now something about tango...





Gustavo and Giselle are my absolute all time favorite tango dancers. I love their style. I love them as individuals (although I only "know" them as student of theirs). I want to dance like Gustavo (obviously within the confines of my own body/muscles/skeleton/geometry with my partner/mind/musicality/passion..). He is my hero/idol. She is...I can't write what I think about Giselle...she is a married woman after all. I study my video footage of classes I took in Buenos Aires (April 2007) and Atlanta (June 2007) at night when I should be working on work stuff. The teachers of the teachers...the maestros of the maestros. Great dancers, great teachers, great people. That said...

Here is a post today from Blog Critic Magazine... titled "The Greatest Maestro of Tango in the World"...
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/09/12/211327.php

Originally published on Terence Clarke's blog....titled "The Cream of Tango" ...
http://web.mac.com/teryclarke/iWeb/Site/Blog/0F07EC60-FD9F-4FC0-B06B-1BF72EA59BAA.html

Terence Clarke is a novelist, journalist and filmmaker who writes about the arts ...Terence Clarke: Books, Art, Music, Film, Style ... http://web.mac.com/teryclarke/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html

As a sidenote:: I'm not 100% sure about this, but it's my understanding that Gustavo started CITA... and then gave it over (or sold it?) to his friend Fabian Salas... I'm not sure if they are still friends or not... for whatever this tidbit of information is worth...

Tango :: Fuck me back...

Okay, I'm up way too early...I had a dream my cell phone was ringing....

First...can I use the word "fuck" in blog-land? Any censors out there?

Here's the deal...I SINCERELY HOPE I DON'T OFFEND ANYONE WITH THIS POST...

I find that the best dances (to me, personally) are when the follower dances with "energy". The best way I have found to describe this is this::

(note my choice of the word fuck, versus "making love", when in reality I am more of a "making love" kinda guy...)

"When I fuck a woman, and she just lays there, it is still very good sex (usually)...BUT, when she doesn't just lay there, and she chooses to meet my energy with her own energy, when she chooses to 'fuck me back'...it can be mindblowinglyunbelievable sex."

Caveat: In my own defense, I haven't been involved with women who don't reciprocate sexually...except for my first ex-wife...she had a tendency to just lay there...I don't/won't go there anymore...life is too short for that...

For me, tango is the same...there are women who just "lay there"...are like a blob of mush or jello....and then there are the women who "tango me back"...and that's when it is really, really good...

But, I think this is very, very difficult for a follower to achieve, and therefore very, very rare...for me personally, I would say one in twenty followers...in my humble experience...

Luca Ferrari Video

A dancer from Italy...Luca Ferrari...I found this on el blog de la siguiendo mi corazon (Tina)...

Perdizione - Grocery Store Tango - Italian Short

This is the trailer on YouTube. The link to the full short film is::

http://youtu.be/JBWeyFML2Xc

You should have a high speed connection for this...and watch until the very end...a cute ending...it's about 11 minutes long total...

National Geographic on Tango - Short Film

Here is a link to a National Geographic multimedia "short" on Tango...it's a pretty good overview...a good one to show friends, family, other "non-tango" people...

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0312/sights_n_sounds/media1.html

Tango Baby

Here's another Tango bloguera who used one of my photos in her blog...here is the link to her post...http://tangobaby2.blogspot.com/2007/08/longing.html

And here is the original photo...

Defaulting

I was getting longwinded in my Post Script below, so I decided to start a new post on this topic. One of my current lead frustrations is the superslow cross. Followers have been conditioned to snap or pop their left foot into the cross. By doing that, by "defaulting", you have blocked an opportunity for the lead. I have been trying to lead a "superslow" cross, overstepping on the 5 of the basic, and then slowly, very slowly, dragging (or leading the slow caress) of the follower's left foot into the cross. It's mostly a musicality thing. Sometimes I can get a slow caress for about half the distance, and then "pop", that left foot assumes the cross position.

Please just be aware...wait for the lead...try not to automatically default...please...

La Planchandora - Tango "Blogguera"

Or, should it be Tanguera Blogger? I like Blogguera myself...

La Planchadora blogged a bit about one of my photos of Julio and Corina...

Here is her blog link...
http://laplanchadora.blogspot.com/

Here is the link to her post about my photo....
http://laplanchadora.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html

Ney Melo & Jennifer Bratt - Tango

A tango improvisation by Ney Melo and Jennifer Bratt this summer in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, as much as I wanted to be there (Austin is my "home" town...my daughter and my family all live in Austin...), but I could not make it...

Julio y Corina

A shot I took of Julio Balmaceda and Corina de la Rosa at Cheesman Park Pavilion...at the Denver Memorial Day Tango Festival...May 2007...

Top Tango Performances - YouTube

This is a playlist of my favorite Tango performances...for one reason or another...there may only be a single element in a particular dance that I like...

Tango Video in Barcelona

Rather agressive/athletic style...however there are elements I like...that could be toned down for social tango...or for a demo...this guy looks a little like Gabriel Misse...anyone know who he is?

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1989313

Check out this video: Street Tango in Barcelona Square