The XVIII Worldwide Tango Competition of Medellín featured greater than 40 actions, concert events, the efficiency of almost a thousand dancers, musicians, singers, and greater than 15 thousand attendees, consolidating the District because the second world capital of tango.
On the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Plaza Gardel, subsequent to the Olaya Herrera Airport, Casa Gardeliana, the Metropolitan Theater and the Pablo Tobón Uribe, had been the levels of this system, between June 23 and 30, along with the displays about tango tradition on the statue positioned in
Manrique 45 and the Park of Wishes.
“This 12 months, the objective was to have the Competition and tango reside in each nook of town. There have been performances in large-scale venues such because the Metropolitano and Pablo Tobón Theaters, however we additionally had open lessons and performances within the Homes of Tradition,” mentioned Santiago Silva Jaramillo, Secretary of Citizen Tradition.
One of many actions that attracted probably the most consideration from attendees was the Dance Championship, which came about on the Metropolitan Theater, bringing collectively greater than 800 dancers from Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, the USA and Colombia, by which the contributors from Medellín took first place within the completely different classes.
Stiwar Calle and his mom Luisa Calle took first place within the Milonga Tango Salon classes; whereas Santiago Salazar Botero and María Alejandra Ospina Marín took the title within the Grownup Stage Tango class. El Balcón de los Artistas triumphed within the Choreographic Teams class.
Adults.
Alternatively, Santiago Santana and Camila Marín had been topped champions within the Youngsters’s Stage class; Juan de Dios Figuera García and María Fernanda Romero Ossa took the title in Youth Stage; and the Artists’ Balcony additionally demonstrated its hierarchy within the Teams class.
Youngsters’s Youth.
The Singing Competitors, held on the Pablo Tobón Uribe Theater, had the participation of greater than 50 singers, amongst whom the next stood out: the Argentine Walter Alejandro Canales in first place, Luckas Murillo González, member of the Music Community, in second place; and María Susana Ribot,
took third place.
“I did not come to win, I got here to search out myself and to know what Walter Canales can do with tango and I discovered this. I am giving my greatest at this time, at 52 years previous, and to beat with our music,” mentioned the winner of the Singing Competitors, Walter Canales.
This version of the pageant featured the presence of famend bandoneonist Víctor Lavallén, who shared his data with the contributors in a grasp class and demonstrated why he’s a residing legend on the planet of tango by providing a live performance together with his Orquesta Típica on the Teatro Metropolitano.
Throughout the eight days of the pageant, tributes had been paid to a number of artists who’ve contributed to the expansion of the style in Medellín, Colombia and the world, similar to maestro Lavallén, the Medellín Metropolis Tango String Orchestra, the dancer Alondra del Pinar, the singers Enith Palacio and Carolina Ramírez, the Estagnaro brothers, the cultural supervisor Carlos Restrepo and the Tango Orchestra
from the Medellín Music Community.
The closing occasion was in control of this Orchestra, and so they took the chance to have a good time their 15 years in Plaza Gardel.
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