Romeo and Juliet Tango

Direction : Francisco Leiva

Choregraphy : Francisco Leiva & laura roatta

Musical direction : facundo Torres

A free version of the play by William Shakespeare.

A play combining Tango, Modern Dance, Live Music and some text extracts.

Love, passion, pride, hatred and death are essential aspects of our play based on dance and music.

8 dancers on stage, 4 musicians (optional)

The experience of the music and stage directors, working in both Europe and Argentina make this Romeo and Juliet a unique and special show, rooted in the past and present.

Dance and music :

It is Tango that is  both modern and traditional , sticking to the essence and imagery of Argentine tango but also and more particularly rooted in a young Tango, evoking these numerous dancers worldwide. A Tango from Buenos Aires streets where it was born. The langage of movements is based on the intentions of these movements ; starting from these intentions, dance was born / manipulations, encounters, separations, fusions…among others.

All this creates a dance based not on form but on its content, while becoming a dance that evokes narrations.

Music :

A quartet is specially formed for the play.

We use essential instruments of Tango such as bandoneon, and we combine it with instruments not rooted in Tango : drums and machines

Both traditional and present music, typical and modern tangos with   recollections of the styles of  Rio de la Plata, el Candombe and Murga.
A powerful music, with an enveloping sonority, creating atmospheres that involve the audience, not as simple spectators but as members of the play.

> Team

Direction: Francisco Leiva
Chorégraphy: Francisco Leiva & Laura Roatta
Musical Direction : Facundo Torres

Dancers

Patrice Meissirel

Agostina Tarchini 

Mariano Galeano

Chantal Fernandez Crea

Octavio Fernandez

Flávia Morari

Dimitris Biskas

Mariana Patsarika

Light and sound:
Juan Pablo Espinoza

Musicians

Facundo Torres
Jonathan Lefevre-Rèich
Manolo Cedron
Lalo Zanelli

Production

Association Tango en Red

Canal Danse Madrid

Ravin Bleu (2015).