[Tango-L] Tango Fire in Cleveland

[TimmyTango@aol.com]

Just my 2 cents on the performance of Tango Fire in Cleveland.
The turn out from the city was very good. The Auditorium held 1600 people and 
there were very few seats left.

What they danced and the style they danced was very good. If you like that 
style. I'm a lover of the Milonguero style, so I wanted to see at least one 
dance done socially. It didn't happen. Myself and several of the people I spoke to 
afterwards all felt that every dance, from any of the couples dancing was 
repetitive. Every dance except one looked the same. All the dances looked 
Gymnastic with all the lifts, spins, and the ladies feet kicking in the air. There 
was no close embrace at all. I do have to say that every couple ended their 
dance with very exciting poses, that impress the audience. 

The orchestra of four, put out more sound than you would think 4 people could 
produce. Again, if you like what they played, they played very well. My let 
down was almost every song they played, were in "Forever Tango." In fact they 
even sounded exactly like "Forever Tango,"
especially when I heard Derecho Viejo. That song was the clincher. I was 
listening to the sound track of "Forever Tango." I really feel they could have 
picked new songs to dance to, with Thousands of tangos to pick from.
To round off the show, I would think, that with the show having 28 songs, 
that they could have danced 1 Vals for the people of the audience could have 
experienced. Not a one.

In "Forever Tango" the show started out with a rough dance hall scene. Men 
wanting to start a fight each other, Ladies of the night teasing the men for a 
dance. Tango Fire also started out the same exact way, how original. 

The gentleman who sang, sang well, but he was no Angle Vargas.

Like I said, if you liked what they did. They did it very well. And if you 
never got to see "Forever Tango," you were very entertained. But if you did see 
"Forever Tango, I feel you'll be a little let down, since there was no big 
name performers dancing, like Gavito.

Just my 2 cents
Timmy in Cleveland