Present One Productions has introduced the Canadian premiere of Tango After Darkish, a stunning showcase of tango dance and the music of Astor Piazzolla that hits Toronto March 14 to 16, 2025.
Worldwide tango superstars and world champions Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi lead an organization of ten dancers who’ll take the stage with a stay band of seven musicians and two vocalists to carry the fireplace of the dance to life. Cornejo has been dubbed the King of Tango within the press.
Anticipate glamorous costumes and an emphasis on tango as a pure artwork kind, mixing uncooked emotion and precision of motion.
“We now have had the pleasure of touring Tango Fireplace throughout Canada for a few years to sold-out audiences, incomes acclaim from each critics and followers,” mentioned Svetlana Dvoretsky, Founder and President of Present One Productions. “Now, we’re very excited to carry the Canadian premiere of Tango After Darkish, a fascinating new manufacturing by Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi. Toronto audiences have a deep appreciation for these unimaginable artists, and we’re wanting to host their newest work. Tango After Darkish masterfully captures the colourful power of Buenos Aires nightlife, dropped at life via Cornejo’s gorgeous choreography.”
The present has been on tour around the globe to sold-out homes, and can premiere on the Winter Backyard Theatre.
Tango & Astor Piazzolla
The tango is an artwork kind that discovered its origins within the streets of Buenos Aires and Montevideo in direction of the top of the nineteenth century. Tango attracts from a number of cultures, together with African and European dance and music, the habanera of Cuba and the standard dances dropped at Argentina by Africans. It shortly grew to become popularized, and traversed all ranges of society.
Born in 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Astor Piazzolla grew up simply in time to benefit from the rise of tango right into a worldwide phenomenon. He grew to become a virtuosic participant on the bandoneón, a sq. formed accordion typical to the tango style.
By 1955, nonetheless, he’d depart the standard dance bands behind to create what grew to become referred to as Nuevo Tango, a musical kind that took parts of jazz and Western classical music and blended it into the compelling rhythms of tango. He grew to become one of many main Latin American composers of the twentieth century.
Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi
Gisela Galeassi is a local of Carlos Paz, Cordoba, Argentina, the place she started dancing at an early age. She studied ballet at age three, and have become a train of classical and Spanish dancing on the age of 16. At 16, after graduating, she started to specialise in tango. She has gone on to a performing profession, and a number of competitors wins.
Gisela has carried out because the Cultural Ambassador of the Autonomous Metropolis of Buenos Aires, and on phases which have included the Sydney Opera Home, Carnegie Corridor, and plenty of others.
She has appeared on tv in Argentina, Canada and the US, and was a successful finalist in a actuality present produced by Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.
Gisela has been performing as Germán’s accomplice since 2011, and with him, has toured the world with a lot of productions as a part of the Germán Cornejo Dance Firm (previously Tango Fireplace firm).
Germán Cornejo was born in Zárate, Buenos Aires Province, and commenced his tango journey on the age of ten. He graduated from Gatell Conservatory of Dance with a Grasp of Tango diploma on the age of 15, and went on to review each classical and up to date ballet, jazz, and acrobatic dance. Germán earned a Grasp of Choreographic Composition on the Nationwide Institute of Arts.
He has received many competitions and awards, together with the World Champion of Tango dancing in 2005. He has carried out throughout Argentina in particular person in addition to on nationwide TV applications, in addition to within the US on Morning Information (USA), Fox Information (USA), Good Day New York! (New York), amongst others.
Germán toured extensively with Bien de Tango and different productions, and took part in a number of festivals. He’s danced on the Shanghai Oriental Arts Middle (Shanghai), Badminton Theatre (Athens), Sydney Opera Home (Sydney), The Joyce Theatre (New York), Peacock Theatre (London), The Esplanade Theatre (Singapore), and Mandalay Bay Enviornment (Las Vegas), amongst many different outstanding venues worldwide.
He was a participant of the fact TV present “Q’ Viva — The Chosen”, and later carried out as a particular visitor on tour with Jennifer Lopez.
Germán joined the Tango Fireplace Firm of Buenos Aires in 2006 (now referred to as the Germán Cornejo Dance Firm) and serves as its Director of Choreography and Lead Dancer.
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