Tango Art is a performance tango company created by Anthony Howell, Lorna Stewart and Jenny Sayer - it is dedicated to a fusion of performance art and the tango. Jenny Sayer and Anthony Howell also created ELEGY a piece for Chisenhale dance
Tango Art is a piece that takes the tango as its
inspiration.
It deconstructs the dance, revealing
it as a physical language game, concerned with the
politics
of negotiation. The dancers utilise
cd mini-disks, occasionally "interrupted" by the
powerful
audible sound of the tango. This
Argentine dance is similar to jazz in that itallows for
considerable improvisation. Its synchronised
movements provide the performers with a springboard to
explore the concept of lead and follow
in all aspects, prompting repercussions in those areas
of desire concerned with enslavement
and domination - areas such as commanding and obeying,
mirroring and opposing, leading
and following. These are explored in spoken language
as well as in movement. The exciting
results provide material that is both amusing and
thought-provoking.
The piece is performed by Anthony Howell, Lorna Stewart and Jenny Sayer. It lasts approximately 25 minutes, and is followed after an interval by a session where the performers invite the audience to learn the basic technique of this sensual dance!
Recent performances of Tango Art:
Chisenhale Dance Space,
November
2002
Student Cultural Centre,
Belgrade,
Serbia, April 2003
Montenegro Cultural Centre,
Podgorica,
Montenegro, April 2003
London Irish Centre, June,
2003
Manchester University, John
Thaw
Studio Theatre, October 2003
The Place, London, January,
2004
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham,
May
2004 - as part of the Fierce Festival.
Anthony Howell and Lorna Stewart have also been
performing
with Tango Volcano
at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London and at the Haverhill
Festival.
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