Great! Two recent films on how the musical tradition is being continued: Si Sos Brujo with Emilio Balcarce, and El Ultima Bandoneón with Rodolfo Mederos, as well as A Different Way: Tango with Rodolfo Mederos. Thanks for all the info, Jantango and Simba. I see that El Otro Camino - Tango con Rodolfo Mederos is available from Amazon, but it is expensive.
'Were Bach to be born again he would surely be a bandoneon player' (Rodopho Mederos).
The music is well served... is there no film about the dance? What can you show? Video and dance go well together, but traditional tango is curious, much more an intimate, inter-personal experience, effectively much less visual. I guess it is possible to make a drama out of learning with some of the older teachers, but it might be hard to make a drama out of something so intimate, the 'feeling that is danced'. Wouldn't it?
Here's seven minutes of intimate, personal music: Rodolfo Mederos playing solo. I couldn't take my eyes or my ears off it. He played with Pugliese and Piazolla, and more recently with Daniel Barenboim in Tangos among Friends.
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