Ritmo Azul
3 conversations
Each conversation has a summary and chapters in Spanish and English; the full text shows once the channel agrees.
Olga Besio · 1 h 11 min · 0 chapters
A live interview from the Ritmo Azul channel's show Night Fever #28 (August 2020), in which a host (or two hosts, indistinguishable in the automatic captions) talks for an hour with teacher Olga Besio. It opens with a tribute video about her career, then covers her early days in tango, the tango groups and the first mass tango course she created at the University of Buenos Aires, her work training her own children, her teaching philosophy (rooted in her studies of art and philosophy), her view of tango as a living, evolving phenomenon, and the Tango de Oro award she received in 2019. The hosts themselves note several times that the connection and sound failed during the talk, so some stretches were lost or are paraphrased from memory.
Christian Marquez, Virginia Gomez, Sonia, Paulo · 1 h 19 min · 0 chapters
On the Night Fever program of the Ritmo Azul channel, a host interviews live, mixing Portuguese and Spanish, Christian Marquez and Virginia Gomez, known as 'los Totis,' from their old home studio in Buenos Aires. They discuss how they got their nickname, their beginnings as professional dancers, their search for their own style inspired by Darienzo and their teachers Gabriel and Natalia, Christian's illness (Hodgkin's lymphoma) and recovery, their appearance in a Gotan Project video, and then talk with Sonia and Paulo, organizers of the 'Los Totis en Lisboa' event in Portugal.
Isabel, Chicho Frúmboli · 2 h 1 min · 0 chapters
Isabel, co-host of Porto tango group Milongueros All Aboard's live Night Fever show, interviews Mariano 'Chicho' Frúmboli on 30 May 2020, during the pandemic lockdown. Across two hours in Spanish, with questions relayed from the live chat, Chicho traces his path from rock drummer and theatre student to tango dancer, the years spent working out the dance's logic with Gustavo Naveira and Fabián Salas in Buenos Aires, and his stage partners: Lucía Mazer, Eugenia Parrilla and, since 2007, Juana Sepúlveda. He talks about what he feels when he dances and teaches, why he still hasn't written a book, technology and filming in milongas, and how he hopes the pandemic might make the tango world reflect. He closes by thanking Isabel and previewing the next episode, on the origins of tango in Porto.
