Modern Tango World N° 4 (Bucharest, Romania) | Page 6

After hundreds of performances in Romania and
worldwide, from Madrid to Jerusalem, the show Un
Tango Mas is still attracting the public with an amazing script blending organically with tango, ballet and
contemporary dance. It breaks the limits between
the classical movements of ballet and the geometry
of Argentine tango. This show enacts a postmodern
metaphor of dance that is a universal and sincere
form of expression.
In 2009, Alexandru Eugen Cristea, author of three
Argentine tango books, started to teach a modern
approach to tango. He hosted the first regular tango nuevo milonga for almost a year, at Flow Club.
He also had the initiative to create a modern tango
band, Sexteto Loco, that performs a mix of classical
tango and tango nuevo,. The band is still active today
and performs under the name of Sonido13.
Lucian Stan, a semi-finalist of the European Tango
Championship, was one of the first people to give
Tango Escenario workshops in Romania. In my opinion, he is the best dancer of this style in the country.
He initiated an integrated tango show called Traffic
Strings Gala Tango, dedicated to Astor Piazzola. It
had a live orquestra and four pairs of dancers. The
show being performed at the Romanian Athenaeum, one of the most prestigious venues in Bucharest.
He also was the leading dancer in the Luna Tango,
a show depicting the tango and the milonga as a
place where personal stories, memories, nostalgias
and fantasies are given birth on the dance floor., and
how the dance becomes a partof our very lives.

The year 2011 marked the beginning of a collaboration in Romania of Tango Discovery. Alexandru Eugen Cristea received an international
license to teach this modern structured tango
method from the Argentine maestro Mauricio
Castro,. With this, a new regular milonga is born
that played 100% nuevo and alternative music,
every Sunday afternoon at Latin Dance Club,. In
addition, the first tango book was published in
Romanian: Tango Awareness by Mauricio Castro.
The Casa de Tango school was established in
Bucharest. Today, It is very well-known and focusesmore on classical tango, At it’s very beginnings, it had a strong focus on tango nuevo, hosting several workshops with leading tango nuevo
teachers such as Mariano ‘Chicho’ Frumboliy
and Juana Sepulveda, Damian Rosenthal and Celine Ruiz, etc. The school has a strong relationship with the Tango Meet online project, since
its birth in 2013. The school sometimes hosts a
practica with a tango nuevo playlist.
Csongor Kicsi, l’enfant prodigé of Argentine tango, at age 20, won the European Tango Championship with Laura Iaru. He is a multivalent tango
dancer — a true modern tango maestro. With
Cerasela Hekman from Oriental Delights, he has
experimented in combining classical tango and
belly-dance. He also created a choreography for
a men’s solo dancing scene in a theatre play, The
Pheasant by George Feydeau, in which he also
performs Argentine tango.

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