Tanghetto Concert & Tanguerilla VJ show at Doble Ocho 2010

For the 2010 Fusion Night we present one of the best Venues of Nijmegen, a very special location that is hard to get in Nijmegen: the Waalzaal of the Nijmegen theatre just adjacent to the Keizer Karel square. This venue seems to be made for tango with a brilliant dancefloor and fashionable design. It is the perfect place for the first full live concert of a tangoband on the thursday of Doble Ocho history: TANGHETTO. They will play danceable sets and a lot of stuff from their new album. This is not only the result of their recognition and popularity in Europe and the rest of the world, but also in Argentina. The concert is supported by VJ visuals on stage. But not only on stage.



VOLKER MARSSCHAUSSEN will present his TANGUERILLA experience at Doble Ocho Fusion night 2010. The tanguerilla merges lights, music and roomfilling, interactive videoprojections with up to 6 projectors at max. 40m screens to an immersive audiovisual tango production. The tanguerilla is far away from being an exhausting art event, it has preserved the melancholical essence of the tango flavored with contemporary musical ingredients hosted by DJ-VJ Volker.

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DIVERSI-TREE

3D Animation about the project 'DIVERSI-TREE', a social community LIGHT Artwork in the centre of Nijmegen from 12-14 march 2010, celebrating the 200 years excistence of the Republic of Argentine. Hands of Participants will be scanned and projected into the DIVERSI-tree that will virtually grow on the font wall of the LUX building in Nijmegen. The 1 euro fee for each participant will be directed to children street programme in Buenos Aires. The Art work will have it;s climax and end on sunday march 14 with an impressive Light Show covering the whole front of the LUX building.

Nijmegen starts new year in tango style

The new-year's reception of the city of Nijmegen was presented with the theme ; It takes 2 to tango ! Slowly but surely, the tango becomes more well known in Nijmegen to the general audience (it is already for more than 20 years very well known in the tango world) due to the Doble Ocho Tangofestival and this is supported by the city of Nijmegen, that recognizes the fact that Tango has also an economic value for the city of Nijmegen with the many national and international visitors to tango El Corte, Doble Ocho, and other initiatives.

Tangodancers made a little show on the main stage where Major Thom de Graaf held his newyears speach. Quinteto Tango Extremo played also on stage making the link to the Doble Ocho tangofestival in Nijmegen that will take place from march 17-21, with the kick off on march 17 with this Quinteto Tango Extremo and their theatre tour : Carnaval de Buenos Aires: mixture of Tango, Jazz and film ! On the main stage, on music by GOTAN PROJECT, the Artemiev duo performed their famous Tango trapeze act high above the heads of the spectators, and after this show, the Best Citizen of Nijmegen of 2009 was presented and honoured.
Tango Extremo and the dancers on the main stage

After the main presentations, the crowd headed for the drinks and the snacks and a tango salon started in another room, again with Live music from quinteto Tango Extremo. More than 30 couples crowded the floor and the room was filled with dancers and spectators.

3rd Tango Music Contest 'Concurso del Ocho' is open for registration

Finals : march 19 in Nijmegen during the Doble Ocho festival

New : Winner will play at the Doble Ocho festival on march 19, but also will be invited to Sitges tangofestival( Spain), Berlin Tangofestival, café Ada (Wuppertal) and other venues (conditions aply, see the concurso website)

This music contest is for amateur musicians, music students and semi-professional (tango)music groups and musicians worldwide. Concurso del Ocho want's to stimulate the creation of new innovative arrangements of existing compositions.

The participants are invited to re-arrange the song 'Buenos Aires'. (Music : Di Sarli , lyrics : Roberto Florio, Text :Manuel Romero) This song is chosen in reference of the 200 year celebrations of the existence of the Republic of Argentina in 2010. Music Score can be found here

Main Objectives
The concurso want's to stimulate and discover new musical talent and offer a podium for this talent and possibilities for a breakthrough in the professional circuit. Also the Concurso want's to be a meeting place for musicians worldwide, podium programmers, festival directors and music labels and of course tangodance and music lovers. With the professional jury the Concurso stands for quality and realises a selection in tango groups and musicians.

Jury 2009 Competition
- Dhr. Wim Warman
Piano player, Composer, teacher and trainee coordinator CODARTS Rotterdam
Pianist with Sexteto Canyengue in ’96
- Mr. Robert Schmidt
Pianist, initiated several tango groups in Berlijn such as Tango REAL and Sabor a Tango
- Mrs. Marie Cécile Moerdijk
Ethnomusicologist, Singer, Actress, Author // jury member for various competitions like the Elisabeth Concours
- Mr. Lukas Groen Composer and Conductor
- Ms. Maria José Ortiz Singer, guest teacher Rotterdam Conservatorium

New: For the 2010 edition several podia in Europe have given the intention to invite the winner of the competition. Deals have been made with Int. Tangofestival Sitges in Spain (july), café Ada in Wuppertal, Germany and in Holland De Toonzaal in Den Bosch. ( see rules )
New: Next to the main price we introduce the music stimulation price for amature musicians
(this price is for NON Conservatorium Students or semi-Profs)

Maria Fernandez and Norman Peplov, winners talent price 2009



more information :
http://www.doble-ocho.com/concurso/concurso88-eng.htm
tango@dds.nl

Tango on Unesco World Heritage list

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Tango was declared part of the world's cultural heritage by the United Nations on Wednesday and granted the international seal of approval Argentina and Uruguay have long sought for the dramatic dance and its sensual moves.

The 24 members of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Heritage granted the tango dance and its music protected cultural status at its meeting in Abu Dhabi.

The designation may make Argentina and Uruguay, which both claim to be tango's birthplace, eligible to receive financial assistance from a specialized fund for safeguarding cultural traditions. It will also help both governments justify using public funds to preserve their most famous export after to beef.

"We are very proud," Hernan Lombardi, the minister of culture of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires told the Associated Press on the phone from the Emirates' capital. "We hope this decision will help spread the tradition of tango all over the world."

foto : Lucien Lecarme
Tango emerged as a dance style in the late 1800s in the suburbs of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Uruguay. It is popular in Europe, Japan and the United States. The recent spike in tango's popularity throughout the world is in part attributed to the Broadway hit "Forever Tango" and TV's "Dancing With the Stars."

"Tango is a feeling that can be danced, and that feeling of course is passion," Lombardi told the AP on Wednesday.

The popular image — willowy, spike-heeled women spinning, kicking and lunging across the floor in the arms of tuxedo-clad men — is known as show tango. The kind danced in milongas, or tango dance halls, is more waltzlike, but equally sensual.

Argentina and Uruguay have long been embroiled in a clash over the birthplace of the great tango crooner Carlos Gardel. They kicked aside their differences last year in a joint effort to persuade UNESCO to list tango among UNESCO's traditions worth safeguarding for humanity.

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International tangofestival Buenos Aires honours Pugliese

The Tango Festival is a multitudinous celebration of the genre in all its varieties, and the driving force of a series of activities whose influence stretches throughout the year: the encouragement to the creation of new works, the recovery and value enhancement of the genre’s heritage, the stimulus to artistic excellence, the fostering of stylistic diversity and culture consumption, and the promotion of creative industries of the field.

The 7th Tango Festival strengthens those historical lines and establishes itself as the main showcase of the tango activity, a place where the big names of the genre and the new generations can talk freely.

Highlights
( august 15 ) Pugliese honoured
This Saturday from 8pm the stage of the Teatro Avenida will be honoured with the “Pugliese Night,” a tribute to the legendary pianist and composer, a key figure of the Argentine popular music of the 20th century. The event will gather several of the great musicians who performed with him in the different periods of the orchestra led by the unforgettable Osvaldo.

Tango dance competition
The Dance Championship is the celebration that establishes Buenos Aires as a mecca for tango dancers from all over the world. This event will choose the best dancers in the categories “Salon Tango”, which stresses the social aspect of the tango dance as a typical porteño practice, and “Stage Tango”, which aims to enrich the dance from a choreographic point of view related to the performance as a show.

Throughout the Championship, the audience will also enjoy milongas, exhibitions, free theme classes, dance shows and Works in Progress of the most prestigious companies. The spirit of the great party is already sensed.

( august 16 ) Electro tango
Tanghetto & San Telmo Lounge
The electronic touch of the milongas of the city turns into a multidisciplinary party, attended by electronic tango ensembles, dJs and dancers. The soundtrack of Buenos Aires in the 21st century.
25 agust
NARCOTANGO & OTROS AIRES


Cantadores de Tipica

In the forties, tango experienced a unique dynamism: the balance between the singer’s performance and the role of the conductor. It was a society where the artistic credits were distributed in equal parts. Singers were musically reassured by the ideas of the conductor, and thus were an equally important member of the orchestra and achieved great success, while the audience welcomed this harmonious match. The show Cantores de Típica recreates that historical moment through the singable repertoire from those days, which has been specially transcribed for the festival. The figures of the show are Alberto Podestá, Juan Carlos Godoy, Rubén Cané, Osvaldo Ribó and Lalo Martel, who will be recreating their hits with the orchestras of Miguel Caló, Pedro Laurenz, Alfredo De Angelis, Ricardo Tanturi and Angel D’Agostino. This time with a ten-musician orchestra, the audience will have once again have the opportunity to listen live to Percal, by Podestá; Papel Picado, by Ribó; Muchacho, by Cané; and Godoy and Martel will be recalling their greatest hits with De Angelis. Gabriel Soria, the author of the idea together with Cecilia Orrillo, will be hosting the show.
Sunday 16, 9pm - Teatro Avenida



22 august

HOracio Ferrer

Horacio Ferrer’s friends from four decades of appearances in the country and abroad will be singing and playing at this show whereby the whole city thanks the great lyricist for his devotion and poetry. Ever since his collection of poems Romancero Canyengue, in 1967, Horacio Ferrer stirred up the poetics of tango with his aesthetics and lyrics. He was summoned by Astor Piazzolla and later by Salgán, Tarantino, Stamponi, Garello and Aznavour, among others. He wrote Chiquilín de Bachín, La Bicicleta Blanca, Milonga del Trovador, Soy un Circo, Buenos Aires Es tu Fiesta, Renaceré, Balada para un Loco, Balada para mi Muerte, Fábula para Gardel and many more classics. His Operita (tango opera) María de Buenos Aires, premiered in 1968, is the most worldwide performed Argentine play. He gave birth to a unique style of reciting with a music accompaniment, appearing throughout Europe, the Americas and the East. Ferrer has authored over thirty books of poems and history, where his work as a researcher of the history of tango is on equal footing to his work as a poet. In 1990 he founded the Academia Nacional del Tango (Tango National Academy), with its seminars, archives and international museum, plus all the corresponding academies in the rest of the country and abroad. Medal of Honour from the University of Paris, La Sorbonne, Professor Honoris Causa from the Universidad del Salvador, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Instituto Universitario de Bellas Artes, awarded by the Festival de San Remo, Fondo Nacional de las Artes and Sociedad de Autores y Compositores.


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Buenos Aires Declares a Swine Flu Emergency

BUENOS AIRES -- The Argentine capital city, hit hard by the H1N1 flu strain, commonly known as swine flu, declared a health emergency and said it will add two weeks to school holidays in July. Argentina's Health Ministry has reported 26 swine flu deaths in the country, but local press reports indicate the toll is higher and rising, as the Southern Hemisphere winter bites hard.

Argentina ranks third in terms of confirmed swine flu deaths, behind the U.S. and Mexico, according to data from the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

The emergency declaration gives Buenos Aires city health authorities expanded power to cut through red tape to buy medical supplies or to take other measures they deem necessary. Buenos Aires officials said they would add two additional weeks, starting next Monday, to schools' winter vacations, which had previously been scheduled to start July 20 and run to the end of the month.

"I ask kids to stay in their houses and avoid large groups of people to avoid contagion," said Mayor Mauricio Macri. Authorities from surrounding, separately governed Buenos Aires province said they too were imposing the emergency measures.

The announcement in the capital came one day after federal Health Minister Graciela Ocana resigned, under fire for the government's handling of swine flu and a previous outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever. Argentine news reports said Ms. Ocana had recommended postponing midterm elections, but was overruled. The elections took place Sunday, and many poll workers donned surgical masks. Analysts said the swine flu problem, hitting the nation on the heels of the dengue outbreak, has laid bare inadequacies of the national health system, which has fallen victim to the country's recurrent economic crises.
Matt Mofett ( Wall street Journal )