La Nuit Blanche

“…the New Generation program “Volver al Sur” (“Return to the South”) featured four guest artists: Guillermina Quiroga and Cesar Coelho, and Natalia Hills and Gabriel Misse. Where many others, including the New Generation artistic director and choreographer Dardo Galletto, toy with the tango and dilute it out of recognition, these two couples at once swept the audience into the steps, rhythms, body language and music that are the tango’s essence. And with each appearance — each pair doing four duets during the program — they took on not just new costumes but also new moods, revealing still more of what the tango can be.

“Ms. Quiroga and Mr. Coelho often showed the fluent legato that can make the tango so insidiously seductive. Her manner tended to be refined and enigmatic, whereas his was the brusque assertiveness of the self-made man, and at first this contrast made their partnership exciting. The way she maintained her dignity while her spine arched back in a beautiful display of ardor or while she was being lifted had its beauties. All too soon, though, their over-reliance on showy lifts and catches became tiresome. Not even Ms. Quiroga can look ladylike in a dress when being held overhead with arms and legs spread-eagled and being rotated like helicopter blades…”

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