Tango World Champions Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace have dazzled TV and stage audiences for years with their stunning Tango routines. Now they have created their own live show - Midnight Tango - a breathtaking evening bringing all the drama, sensuality and elegance of this most exciting of dance forms to life. Midnight Tango has just played 80 sold-out dates in the UK, seen by some 180,000 people. The huge success of the tour has also led to a confirmed 10-week London West-End residency, to begin January 2012. The show is produced by award-winning choreographer, Arlene Phillips. Set in a late night bar in downtown Buenos Aires and featuring some of the finest Tango dancers in the world, Midnight Tango, takes you on a journey into a heart of this intoxicating city. As danger and excitement, joy and jealousy, pain and passion all combine - this is a spectacular and explosive evening not to be missed!.
A fictitious biography of Aira Samulin, the goddess of dance and importer of all the international dance crazes to Finland for some fifty years. The life story of this extravagant ever-teen, well beyond the usual retirement age, is told inside a fictitious plot about a Master of Ceremonies trying to persuade Aira to stage a show at his cabaret restaurant. Besides Aira Samulin, many other Finnish celebrities appear among the eccentric lineup auditioning for the show, playing more or less their fictionalised selves..
Nothing seems to threaten the quiet and happy life of Alexandra and Mircea, a couple who's both admired and envied: love, successful careers, and wealth. And nothing seems to ever threaten the very special relation between a renowned university teacher and one her most gifted student, Alexandra and Corina: two women, two friends who, against the age gap, share the same goals, the same interests. Even the same love interests. Until one day, when the sensibility is stronger than the reason. And all of a sudden, everything that seemed certain, such as friendship, loyalty, love and devotion, turns into a terrible hate..
An Argentine arrives in Mexico and finds his vocation in music, succeeding as a tango singer. At the same time, he tries to conquer a capricious Mexican, who at first seems distant, slapping him, but she ends up kissing him..
The health emergency in Lombardy forces the Mariani family to experience spring 2020 at home. Between hope and bonds, three cohabiting solitudes tell us the story of many families forced to the first lockdown of the pandemic..
Two single people – a woman and a man-stand at the edges of the dance floor. Can the sounds of the tango help them overcome their embarrassment?.
A film about the connection of workers and the bandoneon in the Ruhr region..
Second bandoneon film by Klaus Wildenhahn..
On his travels to South-America, Plaat tried to capture the omnipresence of Carlos Cardel, the king of Tango. The film stands out in composition, light and colour in combination with the tango music..
The adaptation of a play performed by the Stap theatre group, a company that organizes theatrical performances featuring actors with a mental disability..
A dreamy Tinder match. Two tango aficionados meet for the first time and it turns out to be a hell of a date!.
A lady dances the tango..
The performance found its inspiration between two main sources: Buenos Aires' tango at the time when it was danced amongst men, and the representation of the biblical tale of the Brothers Cain and Abel. The movie matches tango's passion and intuitive domination, following gradually the protagonists towards a real violent climax..
Tango...can also be Finnish. In Argentina we know little about this country and their culture, we usually think of them as completely different society, and yet we dont even know they have their own Tango. In my journeys through that beautiful land I found that link we share, and decided to explore it, to go and unravel the mistery behind the Finnish Tango not only as a musical or dance expression but also to find meaning of this music for this beautiful country in which I found myself interviewing musicians such as MA Numinem and Susana Rinaldi to tango lovers like Elina Lajunen who has the music in her blood, having travelled to Argentina to continue his studies of this dance, and after all this I found that despite of distance between our two contries we are more than kindred spirits..
