Otros Aires Tango Xalapa
13 conversations
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Jacobo Amaro, Melody Celatti · 40 min · 0 chapters
Jacobo Amaro hosts episode 128 of 'Online' by Otros Aires Tango Xalapa, interviewing dancer and 2008 World Tango Stage Champion Melody Celatti. She talks about starting tango at 13 after seeing a movie, her breakthrough at Casa de Tango (now Tango Porteño), her dynamic and eclectic style, her references Vanina Bilous and Roberto Herrera, and her experience traveling and teaching tango internationally.
Jacobo Amaro, Leandro Capparelli, Jeannette Erazú · 1 h 14 min · 0 chapters
Jacobo Amaro hosts episode 125 of 'Online', interviewing dance and life partners Leandro Capparelli and Jeannette Erazú. They trace their individual beginnings in tango at age 13, the tough family decisions each made to pursue tango professionally, and how they met at a Buenos Aires milonga. They also discuss their teaching philosophy, the difference between stage tango and tango de pista, and how they are balancing their careers with the arrival of their first child together.
Jacobo Amaro, Alejandra Mantiñán, Aoniken Quiroga · 1 h 22 min · 0 chapters
Alejandra Mantiñán and Aoniken Quiroga, dance partners for nine years, talk with host Jacobo Amaro on the Mexican program Online, un encuentro con grandes artistas de tango. They trace how each found tango —she as a teenager, watching Juan Carlos Copes and María Nieves dance in San Telmo; he as a child, brought in by an adoptive grandfather tied to Lo de Hansen— and their teachers: Naveira, Copes, Todaro and the Pugliese couple for her, Miguel Ángel Zotto and Milena Plebs as childhood idols for him. They discuss the misogyny of the 1980s-90s milonga world, what they admire in each other, and the one real fight in nine years of working together, closing with what dancing tango means to each of them.
Jacobo Amaro, Ariel Almirón, Aluminé Deluchi · 1 h 10 min · 0 chapters
Jacobo Amaro hosts, on Otros Aires Tango Xalapa's Online program, an interview with dance couple and teachers Aluminé Deluchi and Ariel Almirón. They trace their beginnings in dance (ballet and folklore), how they met in Buenos Aires, their work with Forever Tango, Rojo Tango, Café de los Angelitos and Señor Tango, their experience at the Tango World Championship, and their teaching philosophy. They close by reflecting on what tango means in their lives.
Jacobo Amaro, Laia Barrera · 1 h 13 min · 0 chapters
Jacobo Amaro interviews dancer and teacher Laia Barrera online for the program Otros Aires Tango Xalapa. Laia, born in Barcelona and raised in Argentina since her teens, traces her start in tango in San Rafael, Mendoza, her parents' role in supporting her career, her move to Buenos Aires, and her artistic and personal growth up to today, now living in Rome. They discuss tango lyrics and lunfardo, early insecurities, dancing with many different partners, and the importance of mental health and therapy in the tango world.
Jacobo Amaro, Paloma Berrios, Maximiliano Alvarado · 1 h 20 min · 0 chapters
Jacobo Amaro hosts episode 121 of 'Online, an encounter with great tango artists', interviewing Chilean dancers and teachers Paloma Berrios and Maximiliano Alvarado, now based in Miami. The couple reviews their 28-year career, from their early stage-tango years to their current focus on salon tango, and recounts how they met as 17-year-olds in Paloma's tango class. They also discuss their marriage, the decision to leave their regular jobs after winning the Busan, South Korea championship in 2008, and the discipline, self-management and patience needed to make a living from tango outside Argentina.
Jacobo Amaro, Rui Barroso · 1 h 22 min · 0 chapters
In episode 120 of 'Online, un encuentro con grandes artistas de Tango', host Jacobo Amaro interviews Portuguese tango teacher and dancer Rui Barroso, who describes discovering tango in Porto in 1998 after seeing the show Tango Pasión, his training under several teachers, his decision to leave a law career for tango in 2008, and his view of dance as a tool for human connection. Rui reflects on the stages of his development as a dancer, from movement to emotional communication with a partner, and on what it means to be a milonguero without having been born in Argentina.
Jacobo Amaro, Olga Besio · 1 h 16 min · 0 chapters
In episode 116 of 'Online, un encuentro con grandes artistas de Tango,' host Jacobo Amaro interviews the dancer and teacher Olga Besio. She traces her childhood listening to tango on the radio, her training in dance, Fine Arts and Philosophy, and lays out in depth her teaching philosophy: why she rejects memorized step patterns and imposed codes, and why she holds that the essence of tango is the dialogue between the one who leads, the one who follows, and the music. She closes by talking about the milongueros she admired, about raising her children in tango without imposing it, and about what tango gave her and what it cost her.
Jacobo Amaro, Gioia Abballe, Simone Facchini · 1 h 13 min · 0 chapters
Jacobo Amaro interviews Italian tango dancers and teachers Gioia Abballe and Simone Facchini, from Sora, Italy, on the 114th anniversary episode of Otros Aires Tango Xalapa. The couple, dancing together for almost 25 years, describe their move from competitive ballroom dance into tango, their training with Argentine teachers such as Alejandra Mantiñán, Facundo, Vanessa Villalba, Sebastián Arce and Graciela González, and reflect on their personal style, teaching method, and their relationship as dance partners and in life.
Jacobo Amaro, Pablo Inza · 1 h 19 min · 0 chapters
Jacobo Amaro interviews dancer and teacher Pablo Inza, who has roughly 35 years in tango since the early '90s. Inza traces his path into tango from theater and contemporary dance, his first class with Pocho Pizarro, his time with the Villa Urquiza milongueros, his role in Práctica X and the Cambalache festival in Buenos Aires, and his artistic evolution toward a more internal, connected way of dancing. The conversation closes with reflections on ego, teaching, and what tango gave him in terms of identity and belonging.
Jacobo Amaro, Sofía Saborido · 1 h 24 min · 0 chapters
Jacobo Amaro interviews dancer and teacher Sofía Saborido for episode 111 of Otros Aires Tango Xalapa's Online, an encounter with great tango artists. Sofía traces 30 years in tango: starting as a girl at a neighborhood club in City Bell, near La Plata, her first trips to the milongas of Buenos Aires, and her shift from a choreographic phase toward a search centered on connection, the pause and presence. She also discusses judging international competitions, the challenge of performing without losing authenticity, the dance couple as a mirror of the life couple, and how tango taught her to read people and become, she says, her best self.
Jacobo Amaro, Cyntia Palacios, Sebastián Bolívar · 1 h 11 min · 0 chapters
Host Jacobo Amaro presents episode 105 of 'Online, un encuentro con grandes artistas de tango' and interviews dance couple Cyntia Palacios and Sebastián Bolívar, from Río Negro (Patagonia), 2022 world champions in tango de pista. They trace their individual beginnings in dance as children, how they moved into tango improvisation after coming from different backgrounds, how they rebuilt themselves as a dance couple during the pandemic, and reflect on their teachers, the value of process over outcome, and their personal concept of tango as connection beyond movement.
Jacobo Amaro, Martina Waldman, José Fernández · 1 h 20 min · 0 chapters
Host Jacobo Amaro, of the Otros Aires Tango Xalapa online program, interviews dance couple Martina Waldman and José Fernández. They discuss starting tango as children, the teachers who shaped them (Mario Morales, Carlos Pérez, Raúl Bravo, Chicho Frúmboli among others), how they met at Mario Morales's school, their choice to travel and build a career abroad, their years working in Buenos Aires tango houses, international festivals and America's Got Talent. Two performance clips are shown, one from Baden-Baden and one set to Libertango, and they close reflecting on what tango means to them and their work philosophy.
