Zotto - Tango Historias de Astor

Rhythm, sensuality and passion arrive at the Teatro Olimpico with the show staged for the season of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, with which Miguel Ángel Zotto, the living legend of Argentine dance, pays homage to Astor Pantaléon Piazzolla, universally considered the father of modern tango.

Written, choreographed, directed and danced by the iconic Argentine dancer of Lucanian origin, 'Tango. Historias de Astor' is the story of the visionary and refined Argentine musician and composer of Italian origin, born in Mar Del Plata in 1921 and dead in Buenos Aires in 1992.
The two artists met in 1989 in Paris, thanks to a mutual friend, José Pons, when the composer wanted to congratulate the famous tango dancer for his show. The esteem for Zotto's work was such that Piazzolla entrusted him with the choreography of the Broadway staging of María de Buenos Aires, an opera-tango with a libretto by Horacio Ferrer.

In an essential setting, punctuated by vintage images of Piazzolla's life that scroll on a video wall, Miguel Ángel Zotto and Daiana Guspero, dance and life partners, dance together with four other pairs of dancers from the TangoX2 Company and the Zotto Tango Academy, the Milanese school where the dancer teaches his art.

On stage, together with the dancers, the singers Jessica Lorusso (also an actress) and Carlos Habiague, and the Tango Sonos orchestra, who perform Astor Piazzolla's splendid music: from Triunfal to Libertango, from Milonga del Angel to Quejas de bandoneón, up to the moving Adiós Nonino, written for the death of his father Vicente Piazzolla.