Jan 2014 - Gallo Center for the Arts

TICKETSFROM $20EXPERIENCELUIS BRAVO’SSIZZLING, SENSUOUS ForeverTangoFRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 8 PMTICKETS: $20/30/50/65Created and directed by Luis Bravo, “Forever Tango” features 14world-class dancers, one vocalist and an on-stage eleven pieceorchestra, including the instrument of the tango, the bandoneon. Thedances, performed to original and traditional music, are the result ofcollaboration between each couple and director/creator Bravo.and street corners of the arrabales (outlying barrios). The tangowas born of this lonely and violent existence. Originally shunnedby Argentina society as indecent, the tango became an overnightcraze in upper-class Paris when Argentine intellectuals taught it whentraveling abroad.“Forever Tango” tells the story of the birth of the dance in 19thcentury Argentina where thousands of men, having abandoneda disintegrating Europe to emigrate to South America, foundthemselves in the crowded abattoirs (packing houses), and the barsSensuous and sophisticated, the tango inhabits a world whereeverything can be said with the flick of a leg, the tug of a hand, thetap of a foot and the arch of an eyebrow. This sizzling show is notto be missed!JANUARY AT THE CENTER5