Tango Salon – La Confiteria Ideal + Q&A with Jana Bokova and Leslie Megahey

Czech Centre at the Czech Embassy Cinema, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, Kensington, London
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This event ended on Thursday 27th of February 2020
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Embassy Of The Czech Republic
Kensington Palace Gardens, W8 4QY
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Notting Hill Gate 0.13 miles

The great city of Buenos Aires is still reeling from the economic crisis, but - paradoxically - out of the daily suffering of the porteños one of the strongest tango revivals ever has risen. On the one hand, Jana Bokova`s Tango Salon - La Confiteria Ideal can be seen as a Buenos Aires-set Buena Vista Social Club, full of great music and dance played out against the backdrop of the legendary Confiteria Ideal, one of the oldest of Buenos Aires` tango halls. On the other it is easy to see the tango as a defiant political act, a refusal to lie down and die in the face of the country`s continued poverty. Bokova celebrates the lives of the tangueros and tangueras - old milongueros, local dancers, tango teachers, foreigners and tango stars aged from 20 to 80 - all of whom share their tango stories of love, family, nationality etc., and shows how the political and the aesthetic are inextricably interwoven.

Argentina / United Kingdom 2004, 70´, English subtitles

Followed by Q&A with director Jana Bokova and former BBC Head of Music and Arts programmes Leslie Megahey

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