Tango: Festival of Dance presents LadoCiego

Media release: September 13 2010

Tempo 10 NZ’s Festival of Dance presents
LadoCiego

Swish, Slide, Flick, …..Tango is coming to town!
Tempo 10, NZ’s Festival of Dance just got hotter! LadoCiego an exhilarating contemporary Tango dance company from Buenos Aires are bringing their dynamic dance work Peso Medio to the Maidment Theatre in Auckland on the 19th and 20th October.

LadoCiego are the face of a brash new wave of Tango that pays homage to the traditions and disciplines of the form, but delivers it with a whole new contemporary top spin; edgy and sexy in the extreme.

Peso Medio, by choreographer and dancer Julio Zurita, tells the story of a young middle weight boxer making his name in the densely populated (13 million people,) of Buenos Aires. The piece is a beautiful metaphor for surviving in the big city; it combines Zurita’s talents as a contemporary choreographer with the twists and thrill of Tango.

The four LadoCiego performers are trained contemporary dancers who, as Argentineans, have the tango movement vocabulary deep in their bones. The cast of four (2 men, 2 women) have a vivid, strong physicality and bring a fierce, vital and truly sexy dance style to life.

‘I saw them in Buenos Aires when I was there last year studying Tango – loved their freshness, their dangerous, intense style. Mary Jane O’Reilly

The choreography is set to the Astilleros Orchestra, whose music is reviewed as being ‘forceful, breathtaking, incisive…a new vision of tango’. Formed in 2005 with the aim to bring Tango back to popular culture, Astilleros create and play their own compositions, drawing from the deep personalities of each member and making the orchestra a reference of Avant-Garde tango.

Having released two albums, Tango de Astilleros and Sin descano en Bratislava, the groups popularity saw them tour across Europe over 25 dates, perform as part of the Womex 2008 World Music Expo (which was recorded and subsequently aired in the UK by the BBC) and last year share the stage with the likes of BB King, Herbie Hancock, Seal and Erika Badu at both the Montreal Jazz Festival and Holland’s North Sea Jazz.

Book early and go into the draw to win a gift voucher from The Silk Drawer, an exquisite, luxurious and sensuous lingerie shop that imports from Italy!

LadoCeigo , Peso Medio is Tango with more than a twist!

Tuesday 19 – Wed 20 Oct
8pm – 60 mins
$40 Adults/$36 Concession
Maidment Theatre
www.maidments.auckland.ac.nz

Tempo NZ Festival of Dance 2010 opens on September 18th - go to: www.tempo.co.nz
For more information, videos of 2009’s highlights or to read the Tempo blog, visit www.tempo.co.nz

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