The dancers at Tango after Darkish, Argentine’s manufacturing, which discovered a two -week run at Joyce Theater on Tuesday, are certified, skilled professionals. Their biographies listing the various competitions they’ve gained and the various exhibits during which they’ve carried out, most with Tango within the title. What distinguishes “tango after darkish” from these different tango exhibits? Not a lot.
This one is directed and choreographed by the German Cornejo (there is no such thing as a reference to Herman Cornejo, Buenos Aires’ ballet star, who was in Joyce final week). He and his companion Gisela Galea are joined by 4 different {couples} and a bunch on stage that performs diversifications of compositions by the nice Astor Piazzola.
Tango After Darkish comprises all the pieces you possibly can anticipate from a Tango present. There are elegantly dressed {couples} transferring like one within the ballroom, sensually cooling on high as their legs tremble like locusts, sneaking between the legs of their companion as usually as potential, the legs of ladies periodically wrap across the waist of males. The routines are redirected by deep white and downturns.
And since this can be a presentation tango, girls’s legs typically lengthen over their heads, extending after 12 hours. And males don’t simply elevate girls in a low flight, permitting them to quarrel with their toes within the air. They elevate them over their heads, with one hand, or throw them into Loop-de-Loops-moving, made by the applause in the course of the quantity.
This two -hour present has a nominal theme. Singer Antonella Sirilo welcomes us to Buenos Aires, “The Metropolis she by no means sleeps,” and most of her songs she sings in Spanish, refers back to the metropolis. At first and a number of other instances later, a dancer at Louise Brooks Bob pretends to play the bandonon, the accordion instrument central to Tango’s sound.
This theatrical thought, each unstable and cheap, is as imaginary as “tango after darkish.” Every couple receives a spot. There’s a quantity for 4 folks, with a touch of male male companion conventional in tango. There may be one for a lady and two males. There are group numbers throughout which the dancers tour and alter the style of Carousel Companions. And after Antrakt, there may be greater than the identical.
All this could be tolerable if the dancing have been higher. The presentation tango tends to undress the dance of its intimacy, the sensation of dialog within the language of the legs. That is the case right here. All chemistry is positioned and because the costumes proceed to vary, {couples} don’t differ sufficient in fashion. These dancers specific ardour primarily with the muscular tissues, and when their touring work with their toes turns into quick, it turns into frantic and messy. The soul of tango – the superb play {of electrical} music and witness towards the sense of federation, what tango lyrics Enrique Santos Discépolo, characterised as “unhappy thought dance” – is most absent.
Music does not assist. Cirillo is a extra spectacular pop belt than Chanteuse. Piazzolla’s drum heavy preparations should not enhancements and no less than within the opening evening the group had issues with the lock in the identical groove. The musicians did higher when they didn’t accompany the dancers, taking greater than the wild, avant-garde facet of Piazzola. This music just isn’t actually meant for dancing, but when Cornejo had taken the problem, it might have been a welcome signal of boldness.
As is, Tango After Darkish is principally an extreme nightclub present, the sort provided to vacationers in Buenos Aires is now provided to stay vacationers within the New York house.
Tango after darkish
Till March 9 at Joyce Theater; Joyce.orgS
