Tango Schumann

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This emancipation accesses my own musical roots, and enables the method of improvisation developed by the tango to be appreciated for what it is: the most inventive development in the art of dancing in the embrace, epitomising the skill of lead and follow.

  The piece can be presented at a set time, with an installed sound system.  It can also be performed with minimal impact on the spatial        context.  

  For museums and galleries with several rooms, we carry a portable Bose Acoustic Wave CD player with power pack (so no wires are       needed).  

  In consultation with the curator an appropriate space is chosen.  In a fugitive rendition of our work, when we may be witnessed by           chance, the piece can be repeated several times during the day.

 Anthony Howell and Lindi Kopke

 repertoire includes Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op.73 for Cello and Piano, John Field’s Nocturne No.16 in F major, Dmitry Shostakovich’s Andante from Piano Concerto No.2 on F major.


www.the-room.org.uk     voleo40@hotmail.co.uk

0208 808 9318/078 339 26266

Oblivion, a novel by Anthony Howell inspired by the tango and Buenos Aires.  Sometimes a reading from this can accompany the performance, but preferably in another venue, such as the gallery café.

A former dancer with the Royal Ballet, Anthony Howell was founder of The Theatre of Mistakes which performed at the Paris Biennale and at the Theatre for the New City and the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.  His solo performances have been seen at the Hayward Gallery and at the Sydney Biennale. He is a published poet whose first collection of poems, Inside the Castle was published in 1969.  Since then he has brought out many collections and his Selected Poems have been published by Anvil.  His seminal textbook, The Analysis of Performance Art, is distributed by Routledge. His first novel In the Company of Others was published by Marion Boyars.  More recently Grey Suit Editions published Oblivion, a novel about the tango. Howell’s articles on visual art, dance, performance and poetry have appeared in many publications including Art Monthly, The London Magazine, Harpers & Queen and The Times Literary Supplement.  In 2001 he received a £6000 LADA bursary to study the tango in Buenos Aires.  He now teaches the dance in central London and at his studio/gallery The Room in Tottenham Hale.

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