Milonga Libertango! - 50 Years Anniversary! - Piazzolla @PIER26!

Exactly 50 years ago, to the day, was played the first public concert of the most emblematic Tango Nuevo song: Libertango! (at Festivalbar, 1974/8/24) -> 7:45PM: Tango Class with Alexandre Barthelemy and Hikari Sorensen**. All level welcome, and with sunset on the Hudson On donations. -> 8:45PM: Open air MILONGA with Piazzolla & eclectic songs. (It’s a tango social, but the open minded music will welcome fusion/zouk dancers 💜) Let's celebrate the 50 years of Tango Nuevo music. At the far end of the pier. We will do a 10 minutes surprise movement game in the middle of the milonga ^^ (like we were doing each time in ‘Milonga de Alex’ in Buenos Aires) Astor Piazzolla is the only composer ever who represent all by himself a whole musical genre: The “Tango Nuevo”. (Even if Eduardo Rovira did a few) Celebrating Libertango in New York carries a profound resonance: Astor Piazzolla spent his childhood in New York City (Little Italy poor neighborhood), a vibrant hub of musical creativity, where he was exposed to jazz and classical music. (Seeing live musicians like Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway while starting to play tango under the influence of his father Vicente “Nonino”.) His exposition to a variety of New Yorker musics later deeply influenced and shaped the Tango Nuevo genre. Piazzolla and his musicians often received threats and death threats for destroying tango. He responded: “They hate me because I am not like them. I don’t destroy the tango. I stretch it, I renew it.” His music helped maintain the tango out of the water in the 70s and helped the defibrillation of tango dancing in the 80/90s leading to its explosion around 2000. Thus, shouldn’t even the most classic dancers, unkeen on tango-nuevo music, be thankful to him? Some say Piazzolla didn’t like dancers, others say that Piazzolla confessed that nothing stated that his music was not for dancing. The truth is that we don’t dance Piazzolla enough in Milongas. ** Youngest tango teacher in France in 2003, Alexandre Barthelemy ignited the alternative tango scenes of Paris, Berlin and Buenos Aires. In 2021 in Buenos Aires he taught his dynamic contemporary tango style weekly during 2 years to the young tango crowd. (More text at alexbart.org/tango. Videos at instagram.com/alexbart_berlin & vimeo) / Hikari Sorensen is one of the most passionate tango dancer of New York City ❤️