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“Danza y Movimiento” has begun with the release of a new tango series. The project is called “Tango Classics” and draws on one of the largest European tango archives, which the Hamburg-born composer Klaus Johns compiled during his life.

Many of the recordings in this series have never been released, with the exception of the original gramophone records many years ago! The historical value of some of these recordings is so high that the Hamburg cultural authority has decided to support our project.

We don’t usually write about festivals, since to keep up to date on all of them would be a job in itself! But this one deserves a mention for two reasons. Firstly, we’re based in Hamburg so a little bit of city loyalty is OK . Secondly, we proudly stock the CDs of Quinteto Angel, who will be playing at the festival, presenting their new CD “Final de Fiesta”.

Quinteto Angel has, since its founding, made a name for itself worldwide. They are a modern German tango quintet playing traditional tango music with a contemporary intensity and vitality usually thought unlikely or even impossible for ‘foreigners’, i.e. non-Argentinians. There is no room for doubt here that these musicians live and breath tango and combine their passion for the music with high musicianship.
For a foretaste:

Quinteto Angel, Final de Fiesta:“Quinteto Angel, Sabado Ingles”:http://www.danzaymovimiento.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=90681000077

Quinteto Angel, Danzarin
For the real thing (date, time and place of performance), check out the website of Universo Tango, under Festival:
Universo Tango
The festival takes place from August 26th to 29th and Quinteto Angel will be playing on the 27th of August as the main musical attraction. The festival as a whole promises to be good, with many great dancers performing and offering workshops.

Not all news is new. Although I wrote about this fantastic group about a month ago in the German blog and then wrote a few lines in the newsletter after that, I haven’t really got around to writing a few words in English until now.
The group, Jasstango, brought out the same-named album back in 2008. We just brought in on board at the beginning of this year. I listened to the album intensively for a good couple of weeks back then and was extremely enthusiastic. Then I took a break. I’m listening to the CD again as I write now and I can say that my ‘love at first hearing’ from more than a month ago was no superficial flirt: the music remains good.

Since 1996, Danza y Movimiento has created a large programme for dance courses, Spanish classes, classes for musical instruments and theatre in various countries. In the beginning, the focus was on salsa and tango, but over the years, the range of dance offers has been enlarged to almost all areas of dance and movement. The programme contains modern dance or ballet in Havana or hip hop, Alexander technique or BioDanza in Buenos Aires. And these are only some examples of a broad variety of offers, which are suitable for professionals, beginners, for spending your annual holidays in an active way, and which extend into the areas of dance therapy and choreography.

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