Slums/bajofondo at the Bassano Opera Festival

TANGO - SORROW AND INSURRECTION
The argentine dance stands out between the Piazzolla's and the Bernstein's musics. The NCT's breathtaking triumph in Bassano.

Another night of great ballet at Teatro Astra in Bassano's Operaestate Festival Veneto with the Nueva Compania Tangueros. Once again restrained emotions, explosions of sentiments, whispers and shouts of music and dance, were given to a tense audience who shared the dancers' same dramatic anguish as they live on stage. The dancers narrated the New York's and Buenos Aires' slums through their bodies with sudden oubursts of tension, fast steps, languor and abandon, that music enphasized and Mariachiara Michieli's choreography cast in gold. The West Side Story's Maria gave us a thrill, whereas the dancers played a sort of universal creatures whose dreams could not be killed by violence and dictatorship. The four dancers were the whole mankind, beyond colors and languages; they distilled love and strength in their tragical mask, in their quick smile of the red and silver dressed mambo-tango. The audience roared and cheered many times till the final, thundering applause.

Il Giornale di Vicenza

Catalogo at Teatro Regio of Parma

THE HISTORY OF A NATION WITH MUSIC AND DANCE

The air is absorbed and rapt in wonder by the bandoneòn's sound that reverberates the far stars. On the stage, in the black of the night, the César Stroscio's Trio Esquina goes over the history of a music and a dance, in the Pilotta's old embrace. Languid and passionate. Evocative. The music reaches us in the deep and sweeps us away. The Nueva Compania Tangueros' dancers draw tantalizing hieroglyphics on the floor, according to their personal Tango's re-examination and through the Mariachiara Michieli's best choreographies. Pliant movements, strategy of glances. Tango is like a tide that pushes and leaves, it's like a loneliness danced in pair, it's like to touch and understand. Excellent, Silvina Aguera and Sebastian Romero, Silvia Vaccaro and Mariano Suazo: they dance on the Rovira's tunes lively and springy. Their bodies are either dangling in an exotic dream and expressing universal feelings. Classical Tango meets Jazz and Contemporary Music thanks to the César Stroscio's special arrangements for the Alma String Quartet. A ballet pas de quatre: the figures open to the space while the pairs soar for other dimensions. A complex artistic harmony, between accuracy and freedom. Virtuosity and fantasy.

Silvia Ugolotti - La Gazzetta di Parma

Catalogo at the ArteVen Festival

TANGO SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT

From the Osvaldo Pugliese's romantic Tango to the Astor Piazzolla's innovative version, the night goes on in the smart succession of situations and emotions. The show reaches the highest intensity with the tunes belonging to the romantic trend, which has a strong impact. In the background, the Villa Venier's main front, only lighted by the flickering flames on the windowsills, the dancers' shadows casted from the bottom towards the bush around the stage, the statues appearing at dusk in the garden. In conclusion, a charming effect the show could catch and express with elegance and delicacy. The Nueva Compania Tangueros made our heart beating again.

Stefano Roncon - L'Arena