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Jonathan Spitel · 6 min · 0 chapters
Jonathan Spitel, 2009 world champion in tango escenario, speaks to camera about the milonga and its place in a dancer's life. He talks about his run through tango escenario festivals without losing the footing of tango salón, about building his stage couple's costume and choreography as one whole, and about why he'd rather watch the milongueros than dance at the more traditional milongas. He closes by comparing tango to life itself.
Agustina Vignau · 9 min · 0 chapters
In this excerpt from an interview, Agustina Vignau, 2016 Tango Escenario world champion, talks about her run at the Mundial de Tango with Hugo, her partner and director: why the goal was always to reach the final at the Luna Park rather than to win, how they worked from Hugo's staged, pictorial approach (showing the duende rather than showing off), and the tensions around costumes and the heel debate in stage tango. Only her voice is heard on the recording; the interviewer's questions were not kept.
Jonathan Spitel · 19 min · 0 chapters
Jonathan Spitel tells, to camera, how he started dancing with his partner —from an audition for a Sebastián Arce short film— and how that couple went on to win the 2009 Tango Escenario World Championship after only five months dancing together. He describes rehearsing in a hostel, a fundraising night for the costumes, a last-minute scramble over the shoes, and the nerves before walking out to dance the final at Luna Park. He closes with the tribute they received in 2019 at La Usina del Arte and the studio he now runs with his partner and the designer Leandro Sánchez.
Agustina Vignau · 11 min · 0 chapters
In this second interview (recorded, like the previous one, in Retiro, Buenos Aires), Agustina Vignau talks about her creative process with Hugo, her partner and director, focusing on the piece 'Vacío', written partly during the pandemic, and on how they work by hunting for symbolic elements and discarding most of what they try before arriving at movement and music. She also talks about how self-managed a dancer's work is, her wish to bring stage tango to audiences outside the milonga -- film and theatre festivals --, a job they lost for refusing to soften a piece, and why she believes a serious artistic product now sells better than the worn-out image of 'the young lady in the slit dress and the man with the slicked-back hair'.
Jonathan Spitel · 16 min · 0 chapters
In this interview, recorded at the corner of Corrientes and Esmeralda in Buenos Aires, Jonathan Spitel, 2009 Tango Escenario world champion, talks about how he came to dance as a kid in Córdoba, tagging along with his mother to a retirement-home dance class, his frustrated first attempt at tango, his nine years with the company Sangre Latina under Iván Álvarez and Silvana Torres, his 2007 audition for Forever Tango, and the personal crisis he went through in his first year living alone in Buenos Aires, before deciding to stay and meeting Betsa. Only his voice is heard on the recording; the interviewer's questions were not kept.
Agustina Vignau · 7 min · 0 chapters
Agustina Vignau, filmed in Retiro, Buenos Aires, explains how she came to tango from folklore and contemporary dance, and how her training in theatre and dramatic art shaped the way she dances. She talks about her partner and choreographer Hugo Mastrolorenzo, whom she met by chance at a seniors'-center milonga in Los Polvorines, and how they build their stage work from dramaturgy, symbol and metaphor so that tango on stage keeps speaking to the present.
Jonathan Spitel · 0 min · 0 chapters
Jonathan Spitel wraps up an interview with the Revistango team (Tito, Lucy and David), thanking them for the coffee and the shared moment, and encourages viewers not to miss the full interview.
Sebastián Jiménez · 8 min · 0 chapters
In a REVISTANGO interview filmed in Recoleta, Sebastián Jiménez talks about what it was like to win a world tango championship while still very young and in high school. He describes the emptiness and betrayals from people close to him that followed, the difficulty of learning English and adapting to traveling alone, and how his family's support kept him from quitting tango during that period of doubt.
Suyay Quiroga, Diego Chandia · 10 min · 0 chapters
Suyay Quiroga and Diego Chandia describe meeting at the final of a world tango championship in 2015, and how, after each working solo or with other partners, they began dancing together in 2017. They talk about their daily rehearsal routine, the honesty and respect that hold their partnership together, and how they keep a couple's shared ego separate from personal ego. They close reflecting on happiness, family, and wanting things to go well for each other.
Silvana Núñez, Iván Leonardo Romero · 10 min · 0 chapters
Silvana Núñez, a dancer and 2004 World Tango Stage Champion, speaks to camera about how she came to tango at 14 in a cultural center in the Flores neighborhood after years of folklore dance, her training in women's technique classes, her studies at Mora Godoy's school, and preparing with her then partner for the first World Tango Championship, which they won in 2004. She also recounts joining the Tango Metrópolis company, directed by Claudio Hoffmann and Pilar Álvarez.
Mara Oviedo - Eugenia Noble - Soy Noble ENTREVISTA / Parte 1 / REVISTANGO
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Eugenia, Mara · 12 min · 0 chapters
Eugenia Noble (Eugenia Gutiérrez Noble), a Uruguayan designer and dancer, and Mara Oviedo, a dancer from Córdoba now based in Buenos Aires, describe how they came to tango and how they founded the clothing brand 'Soy Noble' together. Eugenia recounts her training in Montevideo with Omar Correa, her time in Chile, and her return to design; Mara tells of her childhood in Córdoba, her time in Río Cuarto, and her move to Buenos Aires to study at IUNA. Together they explain how they split the brand's roles -design and image- and their philosophy of authentic, made-to-fit clothing for tango dancers.
Sebastián Acosta · 9 min · 0 chapters
In part one of this REVISTANGO interview for the series 'Pero que sea tango!', Sebastián Acosta — 2014 world tango pista champion with Laura D'Anna — tells how he came to tango in 2010, from classical ballet and contemporary dance to discovering the milonga and the embrace. He recalls his adolescence in Concepción, Tucumán, the teacher who marked him there, and the sudden decision to move to Buenos Aires, where he got by on odd jobs while staying close to tango.
Brenno Marques, Eva Icikson · 8 min · 0 chapters
Brenno Marques and Eva Icikson, 2024 world tango de pista champions, each tell their own story of how they came to tango. Brenno describes his background in classical and contemporary dance, his chance discovery of the milonga La Viruta, and forming his first dance partnership. Eva recounts starting Brazilian ballroom dance at age 14, earning a scholarship, a festival in Florianópolis marked by a tribute, and her first night dancing at the Canning milonga after moving to Buenos Aires.
Eva Icikson · 8 min · 0 chapters
Eva Icikson tells, in her own words, how she started dancing with Brenno Marques: what convinced her was watching him leave everything - family, sisters, friends, his country - at eighteen to come dance tango. She describes the move from dancing for pleasure at the milonga to building a competitive partnership, and how they worked out their shared way of moving together, without rushing or chasing a tour. This is part two of a REVISTANGO interview with the pair, 2024 Tango Pista world champions.
Lorena Gonzalez Cattaneo, Gastón Camejo · 12 min · 0 chapters
Lorena Gonzalez Cattaneo and Gastón Camejo, a Uruguayan dancing couple based in Buenos Aires, take turns telling how each of them found tango, how they met back in Uruguay, and how they eventually became dance partners. Lorena traces her path from Montevideo to winning the 2014 Tango World Championship, and Gastón his own from folclore to moving to Buenos Aires for her. The conversation, with no interviewer questions audible, ends with their decision to move in together.
Lautaro Cancela · 12 min · 0 chapters
Lautaro Cancela, a dancer, teacher and choreographer from Neuquén, tells the story of his path in tango: training with Rodolfo and Gloria Dinzel in Villa Crespo, his first jobs at tango houses like Bar Sur, his time in the musical Tanguera and dancing alongside Julio Bocca, and the years spent in Miguel Ángel Zotto and Milena Plebs's company, Tango x Dos. He closes by talking about the project he builds with his partner, Lucila, the mother of his children.
Stella Báez, Ernesto Balmaceda · 9 min · 0 chapters
Stella Báez and Ernesto Balmaceda, dance and life partners, each tell how they found their way to tango: she from a childhood in Mendoza and an acting career that led her to dance tango at the Teatro Alvear; he from a tango family, the son of maestro Miguel Balmaceda. They describe how they met at the Torquato Tasso and ended up dancing all night at the Niño Bien milonga, the start of a path they still walk together.
Jimena Hoeffner, Fernando Carrasco · 11 min · 0 chapters
In this first episode of REVISTANGO's 'Le dije sí' series, Jimena Hoeffner and Fernando Carrasco, a couple and tango vals and milonga champions, talk about how they came to tango. Fernando recalls starting almost on a whim, right after finishing high school; Jimena traces her path from dance and choreography companies to tango, including discovering that her grandfather used to dance tango and the hard choice of leaving medicine for the arts. No date or place of recording is given.
Noelia Barsi · 12 min · 0 chapters
Noelia Barsi continues describing her life as a tango dancer, from playfully dancing with her brother as a child to discovering the embrace as a young woman and going to milongas on her own. She talks about her years as a professional dancer in singer Cacho Castaña's show and at venues like Señor Tango, El Tortoni and La Comparsita, reflecting on the discipline and sacrifice required and the emotional stages -play, love, the grief of losing her parents- that shaped her dancing. She closes by distinguishing a milonga dancer from a working professional, and her current need to branch out into other projects, including marketing and her own shoe brand.
Clarisa Aragón, Jonathan Saavedra · 11 min · 0 chapters
The second part of a REVISTANGO interview with dance couple Clarisa Aragón and Jonathan Saavedra, who recall how they met within the milonga scene and how their shared interest in stage tango, inherited from their families, led them to compete. They describe how, while preparing their first choreographies, they discovered they were missing fundamentals in the walk and the embrace, which pushed them to deepen their social-floor tango before returning to the stage. They close with the story of a choreography that fell apart mid-performance at a 2013 championship, which they still went on to win.
María Inés Bogado · 7 min · 0 chapters
María Inés Bogado recalls the months of intense practice before a world tango championship, the surprise and joy of winning the title, and the early international tours that followed, including a stay in Copenhagen on her singing teacher's advice. She also describes organizers' astonishment at seeing such a young couple dance with the maturity of older dancers.
Noelia Barsi · 13 min · 0 chapters
Noelia Barsi talks about her path in tango starting at age eleven, when she began dancing and performing exhibitions with her brother in the traditional milongas of Buenos Aires. She reflects on the playful period of dancing with her brother, her move toward artistic independence at twenty, and how studying with different teachers led her to discover quality of movement from within the body, adding disciplines like yoga and pilates to her training.
Facundo de la Cruz · 12 min · 0 chapters
In the second part of this interview, Facundo de la Cruz, 2012 World Champion of Tango Salón, recalls how his generation started forming itself on tango videos, in the era of internet cafés and early YouTube, rather than only through the live exchange of earlier generations. He tells the story of the day his teacher, a friend from Rawson, showed him three videos that set a stylistic line for him for good: 'Evaristo Carriego' with Marcela Durán and Gavito, 'Recuerdo' with Vanina Bilous and Roberto Herrera, and 'El Gallo Ciego' with Miguel Ángel Zotto and Milena Plebs. From there he reflects on the difference between virtuosity and tango identity, and on everything, besides dancing, that it takes to 'become more tanguero'.
Hugo Mastrolorenzo · 11 min · 0 chapters
In this installment of the interview series "No es tango" (REVISTANGO, 2020), researcher and teacher Hugo Mastrolorenzo walks through the books he has written on tango: one on the origin of tango as a dance, another on how tango teaching became fixed as a sequence-based method, and two more, still unpublished, on a method and a movement notation built for improvisation. He closes by previewing a fifth book, aimed at a more technical readership, on the aesthetics of tango escenario (stage tango).
Hugo Mastrolorenzo · 7 min · 0 chapters
In this second part of a REVISTANGO interview, Hugo Mastrolorenzo reflects on how salón dancing became a homogenized, "cloned" technique, in contrast to the freer improvisation of the old milongueros. He also draws a parallel with painting to talk about copying as part of study, and questions the tuxedo-and-glitter image of tango as a package assembled to sell to outsiders.
Hugo Mastrolorenzo · 9 min · 0 chapters
Hugo Mastrolorenzo continues with REVISTANGO's "No es tango" series (part 4 of 7, 2020), telling how he built "la balada," his stage choreography for the Mundial de Tango. He explains starting by moving away from the dramatic tone of earlier pieces like Amarrados and Evaristo toward a Chaplin-inspired clown character, and how the theme of freedom came to him as the image of a cage, later tied to a documentary about Horacio Ferrer and the waltz from the film King of Hearts. He also describes the radical costume — a torn, dusty 1950s jacket with no shirt — that unsettled the line of competitors before going on stage, and closes by wondering whether, two years on, the audience ever grasped the message.
Hugo Mastrolorenzo · 6 min · 0 chapters
Hugo Mastrolorenzo talks about his creative process: the idea always arrives before the music, and he needs to focus deeply on one piece before bringing in his partner. He explains that he writes the text, the choreography, and the audiovisual and live parts of a work as a whole, and that his movement notation method, registered in 2002, is only now becoming known, partly thanks to the exposure of the Mundial de Tango. He closes by explaining that choreographies like 'Amarrados' and 'Ideales y Rosas' -about the dictatorship, premiered in Latvia in 2009- come from material he wrote many years earlier.
Hugo Mastrolorenzo · 10 min · 0 chapters
In the first of seven parts of this REVISTANGO interview, Hugo Mastrolorenzo describes how he came to tango from folklore dance and painting, drawn to a more introspective register than the festive dances of his childhood. He explains why he sees traditional stage tango as a product built for tourists, and how, when he takes on a commission, he asks first what the client wants to communicate rather than just which song they'll dance to. He closes by recalling his first milonga, where he couldn't take a single step despite knowing set choreographed sequences, and how that frustration led him to seek out milonguero teachers and, later, to search for his own method for teaching improvisation.
Sebastián Jiménez, Joana Gomes · 10 min · 0 chapters
In this REVISTANGO interview, Sebastián Jiménez and Joana Gomes tell how they each came to tango: he trained under Carlos Pérez and Rosa Forte and cut his teeth at milongas like Los Fondos and La Baldosa before winning the 2010 Mundial de Tango; she fell for the dance after a beginners' class at La Catedral. They met that same week, and have been a couple ever since, traveling the world together through tango to more than 50 countries.
Hugo Mastrolorenzo · 7 min · 0 chapters
Hugo Mastrolorenzo, in the third of seven installments of "No es tango" (REVISTANGO, 2020), explains why he avoids literally miming lyrics -a habit he carried over from his folk-dance background- and prefers to build his choreographies from metaphor and surrealist painting. He walks through "Amarrados," with a rope as the symbol of the bond that remains between a couple even when they separate; the flowers choreography, about stripping away and unnecessary beauty; and "Pasional," where he turns tango's usual backward-looking lament for a lost love into a fear of losing her in the future, staged with the image of a clock on the back of his partner Agustina Vignau.
Hugo Mastrolorenzo · 14 min · 0 chapters
Hugo Mastrolorenzo speaks to camera for REVISTANGO's "No es tango" series (part 5 of 7, 2020) about how he builds his choreographic work from painting, symbol and theatre rather than step vocabulary alone. He describes his background in text-based theatre and dance-theatre, and how he tries to bring a more naturalistic kind of acting into dance without losing the fortitude that trial and error demands. He questions the idea that beauty is art's goal, using Picasso's Guernica as an example of a work that communicates rather than pleases, and compares the habit of copying the teacher in tango classes to the fable of the five monkeys.
Clarisa Aragón · 12 min · 0 chapters
Clarisa Aragón, 24, from Córdoba capital, tells REVISTANGO how she came to tango even though she disliked it as a child and saw it as something for older people. She recalls her time doing folk dance and ballet, the influence of her siblings and her tango-teacher parents, and her first experiences at the Córdoba milongas Tsunami and the Plaza San Martín milonga, where she began dancing as a teenager.
María Inés Bogado · 11 min · 0 chapters
María Inés Bogado, a tango dancer and teacher, describes how she came to tango from Argentine folklore at age 18 and fell in love with the connection and embrace of the dance. She recounts studying in secret because her father could no longer pay for lessons, helped by her grandmother, who had also danced tango secretly in her youth. She talks about starting out in Montegrande, working in San Telmo and Plaza Dorrego, and how tango became a second family and a support in her life.
Fernando Carrasco · 0 min · 0 chapters
Fernando Carrasco records a brief introduction inviting viewers to visit revistango.com, where they can find the full interview and tango-related content. The rest of the audio is covered by music and unintelligible.
Noelia Barsi · 1 min · 0 chapters
A short promotional clip in which a dancer invites viewers to watch a full interview on revistango.com, mentioning the site also features other well-known dancers, shows, festivals, classes and tango world news.
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A very short, garbled promotional interview clip for REVISTANGO in which a person mentions the magazine's website, thanks colleagues who contribute to tango, and invites viewers to visit its sections.
Suyay Quiroga, Diego Chandia · 1 min · 0 chapters
A 'ping pong' style interview with Suyay Quiroga and Diego Chandia, runners-up (2nd place) in the 2019 Tango World Championship, answering rapid off-camera questions about tangos, orchestras, singers, a tango master and one word to describe tango. The audio is very fragmented and several answers are hard to make out.
Eva Icikson, Brenno Marques · 1 min · 0 chapters
A short thank-you message recorded for REVISTANGO, inviting viewers to watch the interview and other tango and tourism content on the site. The interviewees thank David, Tito and Lucy for the chance to share their experiences.
Sebastián Acosta, Laura D'Anna · 1 min · 0 chapters
In this short welcome video, dancer Sebastián Acosta and his partner Laura D'Anna, 2014 Tango de Pista world champions, introduce the REVISTANGO page. They invite viewers to browse the site's schedule and watch the outlet's interviews. It is video 0 of a three-part series about the couple.
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A short clip from a REVISTANGO video that hosts the full interview with 2016 tango pista world champions Melisa Sacchi and Cristian Palomo. It is a generic channel announcement inviting viewers to watch the interview at revistango.com and check out their other interviews with teachers; it has no content of the couple's own.
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An unidentified REVISTANGO presenter opens what will be a full interview with Stella Báez and Ernesto Balmaceda by inviting viewers to visit the online magazine. They mention the cultural-agenda features, the classes and milongas of Buenos Aires and the rest of Argentina, and thank the Escalier family's work behind the project before greeting the audience.
Sebastián Jiménez · 1 min · 0 chapters
A very short, poor-quality promotional interview clip with Sebastián Jiménez for REVISTANGO. The speaker thanks the hosts and compares magazines to a café chat among friends, mentioning coverage of tango, tourism and other content.
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In this preview for a Revistango interview series with Hugo Mastrolorenzo, he invites viewers to visit Revistango, where interviews, schedules and moments from the lives of tango dancers, poets and musicians are shared. He points out that we almost always see only the finished product - a scene, a piece of choreography, an idea - without knowing what the other person went through to get there, and that opening that dialogue with dance and tango feels like a great moment to him.
