Pepa Palazon
48 conversations
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Pepa Palazón, Moira Castellano · 1 h 16 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews dancer, teacher and choreographer Moira Castellano at La Floreada in Buenos Aires in 2024. Castellano traces her path from Rosario, where she left psychology to devote herself to tango, through Barcelona and Paris, to becoming one of Buenos Aires's leading teachers. They discuss technique as a means rather than an end, the embrace as commitment, the changing role of women in the milonga, and stories about Tete Rusconi, Paiva and Sebastián de la Ballina.
Pepa Palazón · 0 min · 0 chapters
This short trailer for Pepa Palazón's online Musicality workshop shows her demonstrating a point about axis and the free leg while facing the camera. She describes the standing leg staying constant while the free leg carries the melodic line of the dance, moving continuously through it. The clip promotes a nine-hour Zoom course on tango musicality, taught in English and Spanish.
Pepa Palazón, Pancho Martínez Pey · 1 h 18 min · 0 chapters
Pancho Martínez Pey talks with Pepa Palazón at the Academia Nacional del Tango in Buenos Aires, in 2023, for the series "Tengo una pregunta para vos." He walks through his training (from folklore to tango, Spain, Copes, the Insel system) and what he learned from the milongueros of the late '80s and '90s, including his bond with María Nieves. He also discusses teaching at university and abroad, the "information black hole" left by the 2001 crisis, and what love of tango means to him.
DANA FRIGOLI... Tengo una PREGUNTA PARA VOS with ENGLISH subtitles (2023)
2 years ago
Pepa Palazón, Dana Frigoli, Joaquín · 1 h 12 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Dana Frigoli, co-founder of DNI Tango, about her career as a teacher, choreographer and pioneer of technique and the female voice in tango, in a conversation recorded in August 2023. Frigoli traces the years of research with Pablo Villarraza that shaped her conceptual technique, the rise and closing of DNI Tango, and how she teaches beginners and advanced dancers differently. She also discusses the roles of women and men on the dance floor, the codes of the milonga, and, in a closing ping-pong round, her tastes, fears and advice.
Pepa Palazón, Rubén Véliz, Sabrina Véliz, Leo · 1 h 23 min · 0 chapters
In 'Tengo una pregunta para vos,' Pepa Palazón interviews Sabrina and Rubén Véliz at the Academia Nacional del Tango in Buenos Aires (2023). Twenty-seven years together, the couple trace their path from folklore dance to tango: their secret training with 'Cacho' Dinzel and years at the Ballet Brandsen, working the casas de tango, and the cruise-ship contract that let them buy their first home. They take audience questions on labels in tango, teaching, and their own teachers and role models, and close with a round of stories about joy, pain and love, and advice for anyone who wants to make a living from tango.
Pepa Palazón, Chicho Frúmboli · 1 h 8 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Chicho Frúmboli at the Academia Nacional del Tango in Buenos Aires in 2023, opening with a spectator’s question about tango’s lost essence. Frúmboli traces his own path, from learning to dance in 1993 and inventing new movements with his generation, to the slow return, eight years later, to what he calls tango’s essence: honest communication between two people, not aesthetics or form. He talks about his teachers, his approach to teaching, dancing the night his mother was dying, and a spell working a casa de tango early in his career.
Pepa Palazón, Mariana Flores, Eduardo Capussi · 1 h 19 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews the professional couple Eduardo Capussi and Mariana Flores, partners since 1997, for her show "Tengo una Pregunta para Vos", recorded at the Academia Nacional del Tango in Buenos Aires before a live audience. They trace how a cabeceo at a milonga became a stage partnership, their first choreography for CITA in 1999, and the theatrical, clownish style that made them known for humour inside tango. Answering questions from Pepa and from the audience, they talk about their pedagogy, the meaning of "milonga", tango and gender, and what keeps a couple dancing together for twenty-five years.
Pepa Palazón, Aoniken Quiroga, Cecilia · 1 h 31 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Aoniken Quiroga over video call, during the COVID lockdown, as part of a benefit event organized in Madrid by Claudio Cardona and Ana Gabo. They cover his childhood in Morón with his teacher Aurelio, his first nights alone at La Viruta, his time in tango nuevo, and the public end of his stage partnership with Alejandra Mantiñán. The conversation then moves into broader questions about the tango world -the difference between a tanguero and a milonguero, between a maestro and a profesor, the lost purpose of festivals, the dancers' ego, and the abusive maestros the scene still endorses- and into his own search for personal security. It closes with the names that shaped his dancing -Tete Rusconi, Carlos Copello, Alejandra Mantiñán- and a rapid-fire question round, including a hello from his daughter Cecilia.
TOTO FARALDO Tengo una pregunta para vos.. ENGLISH subtitles / Русские субтитры (by PEPA PALAZON)
5 years ago
Pepa Palazón, Toto Faraldo, Alejandro · 58 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Toto Faraldo (Pedro Faraldo), a milonguero born in 1929, for her series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos'. Faraldo recalls starting out at a barrio club in Parque Chacabuco in the 1940s, the codes of the milonga, the shift from live orchestras to tandas, and stories about Negro Molina, Petróleo and a young Copes at Club Atlanta. He closes with thoughts on creativity, 'tango nuevo', and advice for anyone starting to dance.
Pepa Palazón · 2 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón shares a short excerpt of her musicality classes: she proposes dancing the rhythmic base of a Pugliese variation exactly as the orchestra plays it, final tutti included. She explains that in her classes students first work each musical element separately, through listening and through the body, and then study how each orquesta típica uses those elements and how that use changes from one era to another. She closes by inviting viewers to sign up for the new groups.
Pepa Palazón, Lorena Ermocida · 1 h 9 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Lorena Ermocida for 'Tengo una pregunta para vos'; the only available track is a manual English translation. Ermocida traces her path from ballet and childhood tango with her father, through her first classes with Mayoral and the school of Gloria and Eduardo Arquimbau, the práctica at Cochabamba, assisting Juan Carlos Copes, and eleven years dancing with Osvaldo Zotto, to dancing again with Fabián Peralta and Pancho Martínez Pey. She discusses her teaching, the embrace, splitting from Zotto, starting a family, and closes with a round of quick questions.
Pepa Palazón, Julio Balmaceda · 1 h 16 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Julio Balmaceda in Buenos Aires on 24 March 2012, a conversation the series "Tengo una pregunta para vos" re-released in 2020, after the dancer's death, as a tribute. Balmaceda talks about learning tango from his father, a Villa Urquiza milonguero, his path into Forever Tango with his dance partner, and his views on how the dancing and the competitions have changed since the 1990s. He closes on fatherhood, a recent crisis with his partner, and his life outside tango.
Pepa Palazón, Sabrina Veliz, Milena Plebs, Noelia Hurtado · 54 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón talks with Sabrina Veliz, Milena Plebs and Noelia Hurtado, filmed on 24 February 2020 as part of the Entre Minas Fest (created and directed by Sabrina Veliz, Buenos Aires) for the series "Tengo una pregunta para vos" (I have a question for you). The three teachers trace their own roads into tango — from classical and contemporary dance, from the milonga since childhood, from folklore — and debate whether a woman can have a style of her own independent of her partner, how each gets unstuck when her dancing or her partnership stalls, and what it means to be asked to dance as "the teacher" rather than just another dancer. They close with a rapid-fire round, praise for one another, and advice for women coming into tango.
Pepa Palazón, Horacio Pebete Godoy · 1 h 11 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Horacio 'Pebete' Godoy at a live event in the series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos,' with questions from the audience. Godoy traces the history of tango's styles (guardia vieja, milonguero, salón and the 1950s rupture), reflects on musicality, shares anecdotes from La Viruta and about discovering dance after seeing Miguel Ángel Zotto perform, and gives his views on teaching, world championships and the cabeceo. The talk closes with final audience questions and thanks.
Pepa Palazón, Vanesa Villalba, Facundo Piñero · 1 h 5 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews dancers Vanesa Villalba and Facundo Piñero for her series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos' (I have a question for you), filmed on 14 January 2020 in Buenos Aires during La Kermesse del Tango, in the middle of a power cut. They trace how each of them came to tango - she from classical ballet, he from a school performance - and how they became dance partners on tour with Forever Tango. The conversation centers on the tension between choreography and improvisation, on how they build a story inside a piece like 'La Bordona,' and on the price they paid for bringing stage tango into the milongas. They close talking about finding your own style, inspiration, and a round of quick-fire questions.
Pepa Palazón, Cecilia García, Serkan Gökçesu · 1 h 4 min · 0 chapters
Cecilia García and Serkan Gökçesu, partners on stage and in life, talk with Pepa Palazón and the audience about how they met at a festival in Saint Petersburg, their separate paths through folklore, contemporary dance and sport before tango, and how they understand connection, technique and the embrace. Recorded at the Corazón Encadenado festival in Santander, Spain, on 1 November 2018. They also discuss how they teach, musicality, and what they'd like tango history to remember about them.
Pepa Palazón, Cristian ('El Toti'), Virginia Gómez ('La Tota') · 58 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews 'Los Totis' (Cristian and Virginia Gómez) for her series 'Tengo una pregunta,' a tango dance couple who explain how they met, how Milena Plebs coined their nickname while they worked at Piazzolla Tango, and how they trained with teachers like Juan Carlos Copes, Chicho Frúmboli, and above all Gabriel Angió and Natalia Games. They discuss what separates a good dancer from a good milonguero, their search for a personal style, their signature boleo shaped by Ester Pugliese and Toto Faraldo, and how they balance 21 years as a couple with life as professional dancers and raising their daughter Morena. They close with a rapid-fire round of questions about orchestras, singers, virtues and advice.
Fabian Peralta "У меня к Вам вопрос" с русскими субтитрами от Pepa Palazon
6 years ago
Pepa Palazón, Fabián Peralta, Josefina · 1 h 6 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Fabián Peralta for "Tengo una pregunta para vos", recorded before a live audience. Peralta traces his path from a childhood folklore dancer with, by his own account, a quiet big ego, through classical ballet training in Buenos Aires, to discovering tango at a performance of "Una noche de tango" and finding his teacher, Mingo Pugliese. He talks about learning to dance at Almagro and Sunderland, the codes of the old milongas, the technique for women he built with his partner Josefina, and winning the 2006 world tango salón championship. He closes on what he thinks tango is failing to give people that other social dances do.
Pepa Palazón, Fabián Peralta, Josefina · 1 h 6 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Fabián Peralta at tanGOlisboa (Lisbon, 27 October 2018), with his dance partner Josefina joining parts of the conversation. Peralta traces his path from folk dance and classical ballet into tango: moving to Buenos Aires, choosing Mingo Pugliese as his teacher, and learning the milonga's codes by watching the old milongueros. He also discusses the technique he developed for women, winning the World Tango Salón championship, and a comic number he built for the stage, closing with a round of quick-fire questions.
Pepa Palazón, Raúl Bravo · 57 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Raúl Bravo, a teacher and exhibition dancer since 1952, filmed on 11 August 2018 at La Floreada in Buenos Aires for the series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos'. Bravo traces his path into tango from boxing, the ficha and floor-guard system of mid-century dance halls, the raids of the repression years, and how a classified ad led him to Antonio Todaro, with whom he founded the Todaro-Bravo academy and method. He closes with Todaro's illness and death, what the partnership left tango, and a rapid-fire round in which he defines tango in one word: 'my life.'
Pepa Palazón, Cristian Márquez, Virginia Gómez · 58 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Cristian Márquez and Virginia Gómez, the couple known as Los Totis, recorded at the tanGOlisboa weekend (Lisbon, Portugal) on 27 October 2018. They tell how they met dancing tango in Buenos Aires, where their nickname came from, their teachers -from Mario to Chicho Frúmboli- and how they found their own style. They talk about technique and feeling, about daring on the floor, about twenty-one years dancing together as both life and work partners, and why tango can be danced with any emotion.
Pepa Palazón, Alejandra Mantiñán · 1 h 0 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Alejandra Mantiñán for her series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos', recorded on 11 August 2018 at La Floreada in Buenos Aires. Mantiñán describes building her own teaching method out of ballet and medicine, recalls her first milonga in the 1980s (La Verdulería), and the years she was heavily criticized for dancing differently. She talks about the embrace as an empathetic connection, her fifteen years as a stage partnership with Gustavo Russo, other partners and teachers such as Antonio Todaro, and how she teaches today. The interview closes with advice for adult beginners and a round of rapid-fire questions.
Raúl Bravo · 0 min · 0 chapters
A 59-second teaser for the full, Patreon-only cut of Pepa Palazón's interview with Raúl Bravo, filmed 11 August 2018 at La Floreada in Buenos Aires for the series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos' (the same shoot that video 6cWISgU-HbQ comes from). In two loose lines, Bravo credits himself with much of the teaching workload at the academy and repeats his line that today's old milongueros were yesterday's young milongueros, in connection with where the ocho cortado came from.
Chicho Frúmboli, Pepa Palazón · 1 h 1 min · 0 chapters
Mariano "Chicho" Frúmboli takes audience questions at a special edition of Pepa Palazón's "Tengo una pregunta para vos," filmed in Basel in April 2019 at OsterTango. Speaking in English, he talks about why he left Buenos Aires for Europe in the late 1990s, discovering Piazzolla through his father's records, and the weekly classes with Gustavo Naveira and Fabián Salas where the three of them pushed tango's movement vocabulary forward. He covers teaching, performing with his partner Juana, his favorite old-time orchestras, and closes with advice to be honest with yourself before anyone else.
Pepa Palazón, Fabián Salas, Chicho Frúmboli, Josefina, Andrés · 1 h 39 min · 0 chapters
Fabián Salas and Chicho Frúmboli talk with Pepa Palazón at DNI Tango, Buenos Aires, on 28 February 2015, for the series «Tengo una pregunta para vos» (I Have a Question for You). They recall how they met through Gustavo Naveira in the Cochabamba neighborhood, the nights spent researching tango at the practice space and at the bar La Academia, and how tango nuevo and the Congreso Internacional de Tango Argentino (CITA) came about. They also discuss the criticism they faced, the role their dance partners played in those years, and teachers such as Antonio Todaro, Carlos Gavito and Tete Rusconi. The audience adds questions about today's overload of information, whether tango could take another leap forward, and tango's place in academic institutions.
Raúl Bravo · 0 min · 0 chapters
A 59-second preview, not yet published ('Soon!' in the title), of a Pepa Palazón interview with Raúl Bravo for her series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos'. In the fragments that can be made out, Bravo talks about figures invented 'with everything,' and argues that the steps now credited to 'the old milongueros' were actually worked out by dancers who, at the time, didn't really know how to dance: today's old milongueros were yesterday's young milongueros.
1 min · 0 chapters
A 62-second teaser for a full interview available only on Patreon: Pepa Palazón filmed Mariano "Chicho" Frúmboli and Fabián Salas at DNI Tango in Buenos Aires on 28 February 2015. The edited cuts, with no continuity between them, touch on personal style in tango, the need to live tango to make something artistic of it, and a desperate message one of them recalls receiving from someone who says the two of them shaped who he is.
Alejandra Mantiñán · 1 min · 0 chapters
In this teaser for "Tengo una pregunta para vos," filmed at La Floreada in Buenos Aires on 11 August 2018, Pepa Palazón interviews Alejandra Mantiñán, who speaks to camera about the rejection she felt as a dancer and the men who shaped her life. Mantiñán reflects on the emotional cost of dancing and on still loving the people who disappointed her.
Join the project TENGO UNA PREGUNTA PARA VOS by Pepa Palazon in PATREON
8 years ago
Pepa Palazón · 3 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón, creator of the interview series Tengo una pregunta para vos, speaks straight to camera to ask her followers for financial support on Patreon. She explains why the project began — to fill the gap of documented interviews with the great tangueros, musicians included — and how each interview gets made. She details what the money would go toward: professional production and English subtitles for first-year interviews that still lack them, including those with Milena Plebs, Julio and Javier Rodríguez.
Pepa Palazón, Chicho Frúmboli · 1 h 32 min · 0 chapters
Mariano "Chicho" Frúmboli talks with Pepa Palazón in Buenos Aires on 1 October 2012, for the series "Tengo una pregunta para vos" ("I have a question for you"). He traces his beginnings alongside Fabián Salas, his solo move to Paris in 1998, and the partners who marked different chapters of his dancing, among them Lucía Mazer, Eugenia Parrilla and Juana Sepúlveda. He talks about the embrace, musicality, the responsibility of teaching, and the limits he sets on how far tango can change, closing with a round of quick-fire questions.
Pepa Palazón, Guillermo, Enrique · 1 h 11 min · 0 chapters
Guillermo and Enrique, brothers from Buenos Aires known as "Los Hermanos Macana" — one of the first duos of men to dance tango in public, since their 1998 debut at Club Sunderland — talk with Pepa Palazón at DNI Tango, Buenos Aires, on 17 January 2015, for her series "Tengo una pregunta para vos." They trace how they started dancing as kids at Club Gricel, their teachers, the difference between dancing with a woman and dancing with each other, the years they spent touring Europe after the 2001 crisis, and close with a rapid-fire round of questions and advice for anyone wanting to make a career of tango.
Pepa Palazón, Nito García, Elba García · 50 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Nito and Elba García at DNI Tango, in Buenos Aires, on 8 November 2014, for her series 'Tengo una pregunta para ustedes.' Nito recalls his milonguero youth in Avellaneda, the tango styles and his years winning contests, and the two of them tell how they met — both widowed, she with two young daughters — and how, living in Mar del Plata, they went on to teach around the world from 1991 onward. They close with touring anecdotes, the lack of a formal tango school, and their humble roots in the countryside.
GABRIEL ANGIÓ Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
11 years ago
Pepa Palazón, Gabriel Angió, Dana · 1 h 11 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Gabriel Angió on September 20, 2014, at DNI Tango in Buenos Aires, for the series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos.' Angió traces how he came to tango from painting, his meeting with Natalia, and a tour through his teachers — Virulazo, Nicola, Mingo Pugliese, Miguel Balmaceda, Pepito Avellaneda, Lampazo and Antonio Todaro, among others. He also discusses moving from the milonga to the stage, the changing role of the woman in the dance, his present relationship with the music, and feeling like a bridge between generations.
Pepa Palazón, Carlos Copello · 1 h 9 min · 0 chapters
Carlos Copello answers Pepa Palazón's questions at DNI Tango, Buenos Aires, on 9 August 2014. He describes his childhood between Santiago del Estero and Buenos Aires, how he moved from rock and roll to tango, and his early years learning to walk at Estudiantes del Norte and the Savoy. He recalls what his teachers — Miguel Balmaceda, Antonio Todaro, Gerardo Portalea and Pepito Avellaneda — gave him, his debut in Claudio Segovia's Tango Argentino, and how winning the 1986 Bristol contest led to his first professional contract and a trip to Japan. He closes reflecting on the difference between a dancer and a milonguero, and on what makes a real teacher.
Pepa Palazón, Gloria Dinzel, Rodolfo Dinzel · 59 min · 0 chapters
At DNI Tango in Buenos Aires, on 14 June 2014, Pepa Palazón interviews Gloria and Rodolfo Dinzel for her series "Tengo una pregunta para vos." Gloria describes how she came to tango from classical ballet at the Teatro Colón and her years working in Europe; together they explain how they built the Dinzel method and why they founded a school to think about tango with rigor. Toward the end, with no more questions from the audience, they range over the embrace, the couple as a bond of equals, stage tango versus "fusion," tango's political censorship, and its place in world culture.
Pepa Palazón, Félix Picherna, Dana · 49 min · 0 chapters
At DNI Tango in Buenos Aires, on 22 March 2014, Pepa Palazón and the audience question the musicalizador Félix Picherna, who turns 78 that day. He describes how he started playing music in 1958 at the Viento Norte club, his years at Sunderland, Pinocho and Sin Rumbo, and his last fourteen or fifteen years touring 18 European countries. He walks through his cassette-building method, how he puts tandas together, his lifelong passion for Gardel, and stories about Roberto Goyeneche, Astor Piazzolla and his Italian friends. He closes talking about being copied by younger DJs, and with a joking piece of advice for anyone going to work in Europe: bring Argentine beef.
Pepa Palazón, Susana Rinaldi · 1 h 9 min · 0 chapters
In Buenos Aires on 3 December 2013, Pepa Palazón interviews the singer and actress Susana Rinaldi for her series "Tengo una pregunta para vos," in front of an audience. Rinaldi traces her training in chamber singing and theatre, how she came to tango by seeking out the words of poets like Homero Manzi and José María Contursi, and her way of performing it -- in a long gown, on a theatrical stage, sometimes changing a lyric's gender without touching a single word. She also talks about her nearly 25 years away from the country, her time in France alongside Julio Cortázar, her return to Buenos Aires for her grandson Román, and what her generation lived through under the dictatorship. At the close, an audience member exiled in Madrid, who discovered tango as a girl through a Homero Manzi record, thanks her with a shaking voice.
Pepa Palazón, Vanina Bilous, Chicho Frúmboli · 1 h 10 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Vanina Bilous at DNI Tango, Buenos Aires, on 22 February 2014, before a live audience. Vanina traces her path into tango from the Escuela Nacional de Danzas, how a major orchestra's director personally chose her at 18, her years dancing with different orchestras and partners, and why she stepped back from the profession to raise a family. She also takes audience questions on style, technique, the woman's place in the embrace, and how tango today differs from her own generation's.
Pepa Palazón, Guillermina Quiroga · 1 h 13 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Guillermina Quiroga in Buenos Aires on October 8, 2013, for the series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos.' Guillermina traces her path from classical ballet in La Plata into tango: the impact of watching María Nieves dance, her difficult first class, her move to Buenos Aires and the teachers who shaped her (Miguel Balmaceda, Pupi Castello, Graciela González, Todaro, Petróleo, Mingo Pugliese), her 1990 debut in Tango por dos alongside Osvaldo Zotto, a starring film role shot in Los Angeles, and her thoughts on the woman's role, ornaments and what is essential in the dance. She closes with a rapid-fire round and a message for those starting out.
Pepa Palazón, Horacio Ferrer, Omar · 1 h 0 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews the poet Horacio Ferrer in Buenos Aires on 10 September 2013, for her series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos.' Ferrer looks back on a childhood full of books and affection, how he came to lunfardo and tango, and his relationship with Aníbal Troilo and Astor Piazzolla, with whom he wrote 'Balada para un loco' and other works. He also talks about his wife Lulú and musicians including Osvaldo Pugliese, Julio De Caro, Pedro Maffia and Pedro Laurenz, and closes by reciting his best-known poem.
Pepa Palazón, Fabián Salas, Chicho Frúmboli · 1 h 22 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Fabián Salas in Buenos Aires on August 13, 2013, for the series «Tengo una pregunta para vos», with Chicho Frúmboli present in the audience. Salas traces how tango entered his life through a cassette his father gave him before a cultural exchange in the United States, his move from law to dancing at the Casa del Tango in La Plata, his first classes with Juan Carlos Copes, the years of the Parakultural and the Cochabamba practica, and how his teacher's death pushed him to work out, first with Gustavo Naveira and later with Chicho, how the dance actually works -the grammar behind the volcada and the colgada. He closes reflecting on what the milonga and the practica have lost, tango's commercialization, and what he'd tell anyone wanting to make a career of it.
Pepa Palazón, Guillermo Fernández · 1 h 5 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews tango singer Guillermo Fernández in Buenos Aires on 23 July 2013, for the series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos'. Fernández looks back on his childhood as a boy singer, his repertoire teachers Aníbal Troilo and Lucio Demare, and encounters with Julio Sosa, Roberto Goyeneche, Roberto Grela, Alberto Mariño and Floreal Ruiz. He also talks about his years in the United States, singing for social dancers, and recent projects including an album of unpublished songs by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer and a record made with flamenco musicians in Granada.
Pepa Palazón, Juan Carlos Copes · 1 h 11 min · 0 chapters
In Buenos Aires, in June 2013, Pepa Palazón interviews Juan Carlos Copes for the series Tengo una pregunta para vos, in front of an audience. Copes traces his path from the first time he set foot in a milonga in Palermo at sixteen, learning with no teachers, the 1951 Luna Park championship with María Nieves, and the closing of the milongas under the decrees of the mid-1950s. He tells how he landed his first professional contract, his years with orchestras and dancers in Mexico, Madrid and New York, inventing the tango show at Caño 14, his Broadway debut and a performance at the White House. He closes with Carlos Saura's film Tango, the opening of Tango Argentino at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and his advice for anyone who wants to devote themselves to tango.
ROBERTO ÁLVAREZ Tengo una pregunta para vos (by Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles
13 years ago
Pepa Palazón, Roberto Álvarez · 1 h 20 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews bandoneonist Roberto Álvarez in Buenos Aires, on 14 May 2013, for her series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos.' Álvarez tells how he began on the bandoneón in Chacabuco, the audition at thirty-eight that led him into Osvaldo Pugliese's orchestra, and the years he spent playing and arranging alongside him. He also covers founding Color Tango, the split over the orchestra's name, and being given Pugliese's unpublished scores, closing by demonstrating the Pugliese style on the bandoneón.
Pepa Palazón, Leopoldo Federico · 1 h 14 min · 0 chapters
In Buenos Aires on 9 April 2013, Pepa Palazón interviews bandoneonist and bandleader Leopoldo Federico for her series "Tengo una pregunta para vos", before an audience that later adds its own questions. Federico traces how he started on the bandoneon at twelve, the teachers who shaped him, the audition that got him his first job at the Tabarís cabaret, and his years leading the orchestra that accompanied singer Julio Sosa. He also recalls his time in Horacio Salgán's and Astor Piazzolla's orchestras, and answers audience questions about work for young musicians today, finding one's own style, and his relationship to Aníbal Troilo. He closes with a rapid-fire round of questions and a piece of advice for anyone dedicating their life to tango.
Pepa Palazón, Gloria Arquimbau, Eduardo Arquimbau · 1 h 26 min · 0 chapters
Pepa Palazón interviews Gloria and Eduardo Arquimbau in Buenos Aires on March 12, 2013, for her series 'Tengo una pregunta para ustedes'. Eduardo tells how he started dancing at thirteen in Parque Patricios, his training in American tap and Spanish, Russian and Italian dance, and how, together with Gloria, they went from neighborhood contests to television, a 1961 tour of Japan with Francisco Canaro, and years of success on 'Yo soy Porteño'. Gloria recalls how they met as babies and the story of their courtship, while Eduardo traces the history of tango's styles — orillero, canyengue, tango salón — and how a dance couple is built. They close with a rapid-fire round and a tribute to their colleagues from 'Tango Argentino'.
Pepa Palazón, Miguel Ángel Zotto · 1 h 6 min · 0 chapters
Miguel Ángel Zotto answers Pepa Palazón's questions in Amsterdam on 29 December 2012, during the 15th Tangomagia Festival. He describes how he came to tango at 17, during the dictatorship, his 28 days in detention, and the night he first heard a live orchestra at the Marabú. He traces his training, the 1990 gathering of maestros he called together at El Sin Rumbo, his view of the ocho and the giro as tango's foundation, and meeting Astor Piazzolla in Paris. He closes with advice on teaching and dancing tango.
Pepa Palazón, Alberto Podestá, Pablo, Luis Rabanal · 1 h 17 min · 0 chapters
In Buenos Aires on 11 December 2012, Pepa Palazón interviews the singer Alberto Podestá for her series 'Tengo una pregunta para vos', with audience questions toward the end. Podestá recalls a poor childhood in San Juan, seeing Gardel sing live just once in 1933, his first home recordings, and moving to Buenos Aires at sixteen, through the audition that won him a place in Miguel Caló's orchestra. He tells the story of the hit tango Percal, how his name came to appear on record labels, his years with Caló and later in Chile, and reflects on what makes a tango and what he would tell a young singer today.
