[Tango-L] Swango

[Ilene Marder]

Yes...Swango was on off Broadway play/review, co-produced a few years 
ago by Mariela Franganillo, who put on an incredible performance last 
night with Jorge Torres (both of Forever Tango, he is dance captain)- at 
NYC's La Boca Milonga at Il Campanello.
She is one of the great tango dancers, very milonguera ~ The production 
received good reviews and probably furthered the cause of both tango and 
swing.. i.e connection. It was loosely based on a West Side story 
theme... (without the tragedy...)


steve pastor wrote:

>You might want to look at this url to get a bit of perspective.
>  http://www.hhtco.org/swango/
>  It's a musical. The Tango crowd meets the West Coast Swing crowd and gives birth
>  to...  SWANGO !
>  I know someone who is now taking "swango" lessons. He has stated that this may
>  lead him to learn Argentine Tango.
>  Well, 60s rock and roll, and the Blues Brothers eventually led many of us to learning about the original blues music that preceeded rock. So maybe it's not all bad.
>
>  
>Jeff Gaynor <jjg at jqhome.net> wrote:
>  Listeros!
>
>In my great random cruisings of the internet I tripped across references 
>to "swango" which is supposed to be a fusion of swing and tango. 
>(http://www.swangoseattle.com/, ominously enough, googling it also gives 
>references to Michael Swango, the famously creepy serial killer.) Now, I 
>don't know much about dancing, but it seems to me that these are 
>mutually exclusive -- sort of why we don't have ancient Babylonian Gods 
>that are half lion & half carrot. Can someone really simply explain to 
>me how they could fuse these and still keep a majority of people 
>vertical afterwards?
>
>Just curious and I thought it would give folks something new to gnaw on.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jeff
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