Midway through the Festival Oriente Occidente, "La noche del tango" will be presented in Piazza del Grano in Rovereto. The evening will open with a concert by the group Esquina. This recently formed musical group, which already boasts numerous successes at home and abroad, is strongly representative of how tango culture is being revitalized today.
Esquina was born following the dissolution of the Cuarteto Cedron, founded by César Stroscio and Juan Cedron in the 1960s and a key player in the "new singer-songwriter movement." The guitarist Carlo Carlsen soon joined the two musicians. The Cuarteto collaborated with important Argentine poets such as Juan Gelman, Julio Cortazar, and Raoul Gonzalez-Tunen. In the 1970s, the group moved to Paris, continuing to be a reference point for new Argentine music and poetry. In 1988, the Cuarteto disbanded after releasing around fifteen albums and completing numerous tours. In 1991, Stroscio and Carlsen, together with guitarist Norberto Pedreira and singer Susanna Rizzi, formed Esquina. The group's repertoire includes compositions by Stroscio himself and by authors such as Astor Piazzolla and Eduardo Rovina, musicians linked to the process of tango renewal that began in the 1960s, incorporating influences from jazz, classical music, milonga, and candombe.
In the second part of "La noche del tango," Alejandro Aquino and Mariachiara Michieli, dancers of the "Tango Argentino" company, will recreate the atmosphere of a Buenos Aires "milonga" together with the participants of the workshop they conducted in Rovereto, inviting the audience to dance the tango to the sound of old records. Dance music closely tied to the origins of tango, the "milonga" for the inhabitants of the Argentine capital signifies a place where they gather to dance the tango.
Alejandro Aquino and Mariachiara Michieli will also star alongside Carlo Borquez and Inés, as well as Norma and Luis Pereyra, in the show entitled "Tanguéros," which will close the 1992 edition of Oriente Occidente.
