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Lisboa tango festival 2007

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Premessa
Salto tutto quello che c’è da dire su Lisbona.
Ci ho vissuto per due anni e mezzo, ci sono tornata varie volte, è la “mia” città.
Chi non ci è mai stato ci vada se può, merita un viaggio ai confini dell’Europa.

Stavolta ho coniugato il consueto giro per “matar saudades” e rivedere gli amici con il festival di tango.
Tra un acquazzone, a gust of wind, a sunny day, a hike, a treat, a cod, dinners and gatherings of friends we were at the festival for two nights.

Wednesday
After a dinner at my favorite restaurant in Alfama based tamboril with legumes (soup, monkfish, shrimp and vegetables) and espiritual bacalhau (salt cod baked with delicious ingredients unidentified) there We are perched on the steps where Wenders' Lisbon Story turned up the hill to Graça where the theater, the festival location.

overview dell'Alfama with river in the background (I lived there ... sniff ....)
- Tram that goes up on the hill of Graça - Voz do Teatro above Alfama Operario
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The theater is a place strange, is not good theater, it's a building with offices serving the neighborhood, space, children's drawings on the walls, as public service announcements ... all over the city since Sunday I had not seen any, say about the festival I had no manifest a bit 'worried, so I took a ride on the afternoon of Wednesday. The goalkeeper, who was a lady of a certain age who looked like the janitor of my Elementary and was safely on the phone with a friend, when calmly assured me that he hung up from 19 would begin the festival.

And here, the room is on the top floor, the 5 window that you see on the facade.
... What about the impressive staircase and beautiful auditorium. Type strange, perhaps even originally designed for dancing. Rectangular, wooden floor, stage and two long stands.
Pick tickets for the show on Friday booked on the internet (what a relief, there were, and we have not even queued to withdraw) and pay the milonga of the night (15 euros), a little 'pricey if one wanted to go there every night I think but do not want go at least once? We do not pay the board though, so we sit on wooden seats fold type old cinema in the shadows.
While we wait a bit to digest 'the Pescioni Felix musicalizador salute to his table covered with tapes that tells us to not understand a word he's saying the Portuguese.
A jump to the bar, well situated in a corner and with home-made food, it seems, and staff who see that we put it all in life but never did the waiter.
There are people dancing, very high average age, and many Germans feel English.
And then on the track! Good floor, familiar music, a few clashes. On the track there is also Pablo Villaraza that dancing and joking with Dana Frigoli sudden, a pleasure to watch how they move, and how to have fun!

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Friday
Friday was the show + milonga COLORTANGO Orchestra (which will be at the village Thursday) and four pairs of dancers Pablo and Dana, Roberto Herrera and Tamara Bisceglia, Alejandra Mantignana and Miss Gabriel, Juan Capriotti and Graciana Romero.
.. Well .. what about when the show begins is always a great emotion!
The delay was limited, considering the Portuguese style
He started the band with two songs then turn again with the orchestra and the dancers took turns a young singer, to be honest I thought it was halfway between Claudio Villa and I do not know what, not at all in keeping with the kind of musicality of COLORTANGO.

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Sui dancers:

Graciana Romero and Juan Capriotti: he did not like it at all, drive, set, she put it all there, Bravin, also very nice, but frankly among the dancers who are usually in milonga from us there are better ones. I think we teach in Lisbon

Mantignn Alejandra and Gabriel Miss: she really liked me, I think it comes from a standard school dances, most beautiful woman but cool, dance like those couples you see in American movies with jennifer lopez. He great prowess, it releases energy, I think the better dancer milonga, but only danced tango, his legs were much more expressive and faster than hers.

Roberto Herrera and Tamara Bisceglia: well as tangos in a very classic style, they danced and he also chacarera a folk dance called bolas and dance with ropes e delle sfere di metallo (solo uomini) nella pampa.

Pablo Villaraza e Dana Frigoli: bè..solo loro valevano la pena. Li avevo già visti al festival di Mantova. Nessuna delle altre coppie aveva la stessa eleganza, sintonia, naturalezza. Li ho filmati in oblivion.

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Lo spettacolo è durato long, was varied, the alternation of pairs of dancers, all with different styles and characteristics. Then Felix
milonga with orchestra and dancers while eating and drinking in the lounge, again with live music COLORTANGO. How obvious
the milonga was impractical, given the appeal of the show was a real pit, a bumper car. People of all levels and in different styles. Little dancing, it was stressful than fun.
Great majority of women, but no one has asked a English Wednesday. There were also dancers known
of Trento and Bolzano. At 3
Felix took over, but now I finished unperturbed cells taxi ... e. .. home!

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