CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS PROGRAM Friday, January 21, 2011, 8pm Fire and Passion of Tango Zellerbach Hall ACT I Tango Buenos Aires La Cumparsita Matos Rodriguez The Company Preparense Astor Piazzolla Cynthia Avila El Andariego Alfredo Gobbi Demián and Cynthia on the way to the salon. Demián García & Cynthia Avila Pavadita Oscar Herrero Demián and Cynthia arrive and they join the dance. At the salon, couples dance intimately. Cynthia sees Mauricio, the man she likes, arriving accompanied by another woman, Inés. The Company Melancólico Julian Plaza The Orchestra Nochero Soy Oscar Herrero The romantic couple. Maria Lujan Leopardi & Esteban Simon El Internado Francisco Canaro The indifferent couple. Florencia Blanco & Gonzalo Cuello CAMI La Luciérnaga O. Acosta, Adolfo Armando & Jose Dames The comic couple. Fire and Passion of Tango Florencia Mendez & Pedro Zamin Celos Jacob Gade The passionate couple. Inés Cuesta & Mauricio Celis Los Mareados Juan Carlos Cobian & Enrique Cadícamo Cynthia dances with the men at the salon to attract Mauricio’s attention. Cal Performances’ 2010–2011 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. The Company A Palermo Antonio Podesta The Company 4 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 5 PROGRAM CAST Tanguera Mariano Mores Tango Buenos Aires The Company General Director Rosario Bauza Art Production Lucrecia Laurel INTERMISSION Costume Design Miguel Iglesias Coordination & Photography Lucrecia Laurel ACT II Lighting Design Andres Mattiuada Bandoneón Solo Astor Piazzolla Choreographer Susana Rojo Demián García Dancers Milongueando en el 40 Armando Pontier Cythia Avila, Florencia Blanco, Mauricio Celis, Gonzalo Cuello, Maria Lujan Leopardi & Esteban Simon Inés Cuesta, Demián García, Maria Lujan Leopardi, Florencia Mendez, Esteban Simon, Pedro Zamin Recuerdo Osvaldo Pugliese Inés Cuesta & Mauricio Celis Dance Coaches Cynthia Avila, Demián García Por una Cabeza Carlos Gardel Musicians Maria Lujan Leopardi & Esteban Simon, Florencia Blanco & Gonzalo Cuello Music Director Emilio Kauderer Piano Fernando Bruguera El Choclo Angel Villoldo Arolas Guitar Ismael Grossman The Orchestra Violin Cesar Rago Bass Andres Serafini Zum Astor Piazzolla Bandoneón Martin Sued Cynthia Avila & Mauricio Celis Gallo Ciego Agustin Bardi Florencia Mendez & Pedro Zamín Todos Sacan Emilio Kauderer The Men of the Company Michelangelo Astor Piazzolla The Orchestra Quejas de Bandoneón Juan de Dios Filiberto Florencia Blanco & Gonzalo Cuello A Orlando Goñi Alfredo Gobbi Cynthia Avila & Demián García Tango Negro Belisario de Jesús García The Company Adios Nonino Astor Piazzolla The Orchestra Verano Porteño Astor Piazzolla Finale: The Company 6 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 7 PROGRAM NOTES ABOUT THE ARTISTS ANGO BUENOS AIRES has become one of at the Dance University, teaching the origin and TArgentina’s great cultural exports, known evolution of the tango and fostering internation- throughout the Americas, Europe and the Far al understanding and cooperation. East as the most authentic and uncompromising In 1994, Tango Buenos Aires traveled again to representative of the Tango. Spain, performing for the third time at the sixth In 1987, the company undertook a lengthy International Festival in Granada and also at the tour of the principal cities of Argentina, perform- University and National Auditorium in Madrid. ing at the Spring Festival in Bariloche, at the In June, the company took part in performanc- Galli Auditorium in Mendoza, at the Municipal es and master classes at the Kuopio Festival in Theatre in Ciudad de Rosario, in Santa Rosa La Finland, and also performed in Copenhagen, Pampa and in the city of Rio Negro, in addi- followed by another trip to Malaysia. tion to various television appearances for the The company spent most of 1995 performing S.A.D.A.I.C. series and in programs sponsored in Buenos Aires and touring throughout South by the Argentinean Ministry of Culture, be- America, culminating in a season at Buenos fore ending the season at the Auditorio in Mar Aires’s Museo Fernández Blanco, Teatro Gral del Plata. San Martin and Teatro Presidente Alvear. In In March 1989, the company traveled to 1996, Tango Buenos Aires toured Portugal, and Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany, to Granada, in the autumn the company traveled to Greece, Spain, for the International Tango Festival, and and ending the year with a tour of Japan. to Madrid for performances at the Teatro de la Tango Buenos Aires toured the United States Villa and at the National Auditorium. In October for the first time during the 1998–1999 season 1989, the company undertook a Latin American to great critical and popular acclaim, appear- CAMI tour, appearing in Quito and Guayaquil in ing in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Las Vegas, IRE AND PASSION OF TANGO presents the Ecuador, Mexico, and Los Angeles. Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Fmodern history of tango by introducing the In March 1990, Tango Buenos Aires partici- Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC, New York, audience to the ways tango has evolved over the pated in the International Festival in Adelaide, Boston, Cleveland, Louisville, Detroit, Chicago, last several decades. Love, fire, passion and se- Australia, and in April the company performed Minneapolis and Lincoln, with side trips to duction are key elements to this performance. at the New Zealand Festival. In June 1991, the Toronto, Ontario, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tango is a dance made by two persons— but company traveled to Southeast Asia, giving per- In June 1999, the renowned pianist Cristian in tango, when two people decide to embrace formances in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Zárate succeeded founding music director each other and dance, they become one. This Malaysia, and Bangkok, Thailand. Under the Osvaldo Requena, and Pablo Mainetti, of- union is not only physical but also symbolic. patronage of the President of Argentina, the ten considered the world’s greatest bandonéon Unions relate to relationships, and relationships company presented tango in Indonesia for the player, joined the orchestra. In 2005, Julian Vat, to life situations. In this way, Fire and Passion first time. Argentina’s most prolific composer and leading of Tango introduces the audience not only to In 1992, Tango Buenos Aires performed musician, assumed the title of music director. a scholastic dance, but also to a social dance, in Santiago, Chile, and on Chilean television, The company returned to North America in wherein performers represent the emotional with further performances in Vina del Mar winter 2003 for a two-and-a-half month tour connotations of the dance, which are, among and a subsequent trip to Brazil, performing at of the Unites States. Because of the extraordi- others, love, fire, passion and seduction. the Memorial. nary success of this tour, Tango Buenos Aires Nineteen ninety-three was a year of extensive returned to the United States in fall 2007 for travel in Argentina, Spain (Granada, Madrid another two-month tour. and Andalucia), Finland and Chile (Vitacura, The company undertakes a two-and-a-half Santiago, Viña del Mar and Valparaiso). month tour of the United States and Canada in Beginning in November, the company toured January, February and March 2011. Malaysia, Japan and China. In Beijing, the company hosted a series of unprecedented mas- Susana Rojo (choreographer) began her pro- ter classes and residencies with Chinese dancers fessional tango dance career in the 1980s, 8 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 9 ABOUT THE ARTISTS ABOUT THE ARTISTS becoming one of the first Argentinean Tango 2009 Premio Clarin Award for Best Soundtrack performers to tour all over the world. She has (Argentina), the Premio Sur 2009 (Argentina), the Winter Olympics, wrote the AT&T song for studied with tango masters Ángel Todaro, and was nominated for Best Soundtrack at both Jon Secada’s performance at the Olympic Games Miguel Ángel Zotto, Pepito Avellaneda, Miguel the Goya Awards 2010 (Spain) and Condor de in Seoul, and wrote the music for Ricky Martin’s and Nelly Balmaceda, Juan Carlos Copes, Los Plata Awards 2010 (Argentina). The film was re- videos for the “Livin’ la Vida Loca” tour, in col- Dinzel and Gloria y Eduardo. She has studied leased on Sony Pictures Classics and the sound- laboration with KC Porter. other dance styles, including jazz and ballet, as track album on Milan Records. Mr. Kauderer composed the main title song well as gymnastics, and she received training Mr. Kauderer composed the music for El and additional music for Showtime’s Dead Like as an actor under Stanislavski’s system. In the Mismo Amor, also directed by Mr. Campanella, Me series (2004 Emmy Award nominee for Best 1990s, she joined Tango Sessions, the company and his score was nominated for a Premio Sur Score) in collaboration with Stewart Copeland. directed by Osvaldo Requena and produced by prize for Best Soundtrack in Argentina. In Other television credits include Life with Bonnie, D.A.N.I.E.L. Artists, performing in countries another collaboration with Mr. Campanella, Resurrection Boulevard and CSI Miami, in ad- never before visited by a tango company, such as Mr. Kauderer scored Vientos de Agua, a criti- dition to several television series produced by China, Japan, Malaysia and Finland. Since then, cally acclaimed mini-series that won Argentina’s Mr. Campanella. Mr. Kauderer was recently she has worked with other touring companies, 2007 Premio Clarin award and the 2008 Martin recognized by the Board of Supervisors of the such as Señor Tango, Tango x 2, A Todo Tango, Fierro award for Best Soundtrack. He also County of Los Angeles for his contribution to Una Noche de Tango, Tango Mio, Fascination composed the score of Disney’s Latin versions Latin and film music. Tango, and performed all around the world. of High School Musical and also did the score Ms. Rojo has also participated in several in- for A Place in the World, directed by Adolfo Tango Buenos Aires is represented by ternational tango festivals in Sweden, Finland, Aristarain, which was Oscar–nominated as Best Columbia Artists Management, Inc.