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Upcoming
Friday Tango Films and Videos
A Tango film or video will be shown FREE on selected Friday evenings commencing at 7:00pm - in the facilities of the Perth Tango Club The film will be followed by the regular Tango Café - Filmgoers are welcome to stay on for a tea/coffee and to try Argentine Tango. Click on the film/video for a synopsis
Tango - A Film by Carlos SauraIn Buenos Aires, Mario Suárez, a middle-aged theatre director, is left holed up in his apartment, licking his wounds when his girlfriend (and principal dancer) Laura leaves him. Seeking distraction, he throws himself into his next project, a musical about the tango. One evening, while meeting with his backers, he is introduced to a beautiful young woman, Elena, the girlfriend of his chief investor Angelo, a shady businessman with underworld connections. Angelo asks Mario to audition Elena. He does so and is immediately captivated by her. Eventually, he takes her out of the chorus and gives her a leading role. An affair develops between them, but the possessive Angelo has her followed, and threatens her with dire consequences if she leaves him, mirroring Mario's own feelings and actions towards Laura before Elena entered his life. The investors are unhappy with some of Mario's dance sequences. They don't like a routine which criticises the violent military repression and torture of the past. Angelo has been given a small part, which he takes very seriously. The lines between fact and fiction begin to blur: during a scene in the musical showing immigrants newly arrived in Argentina, two men fight over the character played by Elena. She is stabbed. Only slowly do we realise that her death is not for real. Cast
Carel Kraayenhof – a Tango phenomenon
I Don't Know What Your Eyes Have Done
to Me
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaediaAda Falcón (17 August 1905 - January 4, 2002) was an Argentine tango dancer, singer and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s. She starred in the film Idolos de la radio in 1934. She was famous for her tango work and made over 200 recordings in the 1920s and 1930s. She shared a long relationship with orchestra leader Francisco Canaro. She mysteriously disappeared from the limelight in 1942 and lived as a recluse until she died in 2002 at age 96. Early lifeFalcón was born in Buenos Aires in 1905 where she started to act in theatre as a little girl (11 years old), known as "la joyita Argentina" (the little Argentinian jewel). At age 13 she took part in her first movie El festin de los Caranchos in 1918. She worked in numerous musical shows and also as an actress in theater and movies. In 1925 she made her first tango recordings as a soloist with the orchestra of Osvaldo Fresedo for Victor Records. Falcón was a mezzo-soprano, an unusual register for tango singers at the time, who generally were sopranos. She became famous singing with the orchestra of Francisco Canaro. Between 1930 and 1942 she was at the high point of her artistic life, when she made more than 200 recordings and became very wealthy. Personal lifeAfter she became wealthy, Falcón enjoyed luxury, furs, expensive jewellery and fame. She lived in a beautiful three story house in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Palermo. She had a turbulent romantic relationship with Canaro. SeclusionIn 1942 Falcón suddenly withdrew from public life and remained isolated in her house, avoiding contact with the outside world. She occasionally left the house to go to mass dressed entirely in black, her face covered by a net or by sunglasses, wearing a white turban and white gloves. The cause of this withdrawal is a mystery; she never talked about it. Speculation that love disappointments with Canaro could have been an important element was never confirmed. After a while she became a "tertiary nun" and entered an isolated convent in the hills of Córdoba Province. There she lived as a pauper by her own choice, in a small cell with little furniture and frugal meals, until she was transferred at an advanced age to a retirement home due to failing health. She died in 2002 and is buried in the mausoleum dedicated to famous artists in Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires. Life documentaryFilmmakers Lorena Munoz and Sergio Wolf made a documentary about Falcón's life, titled Yo no sé qué me han hecho tus ojos (I Don't Know What Your Eyes Have Done to Me), which was released in 2003. Although she had not allowed her picture to be taken in nearly 60 years and rarely gave interviews, she allowed the filmmakers to film an interview with her shortly before her death.
Tango Solo - A Show by Carlos Copello
The Solo Tango Show at Esquina Carlos Gardel in Abasto
Pocho Pizarro – A History Of Tango
Night Of The Maestros 2003 Part 1
Section 1
Night
Of The Maestros 2003 Part 1 Section 2
Night
Of The Maestros 2003 Part 2 Section 1
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Of The Maestros 2003 Part 2 Section 2
Night
Of The Maestros 2003 Part 2 Section 3
Locos X El Tango – Street Dancers in
Buenos Aires
Wellington Tango Festival 2009
World Tango
Championships 2006
Si sos Brujo (2005)
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