The "Tango Fever" group will perform at 8 30 P.M. Saturday in The Music Hall, at 13 Main Street in Tarrytown, demonstrating the dance that was shunned by respectable people when it was introduced in the waterfront dives of Buenos Aires at the turn of the century.
Besides Tango, the group is also involved in Project Ara, the modular phone concept that has received quite a bit of attention, as well.
"Oblivion," a group tango created by Ms. Fajar with Mr. Cornejo, takes a stab at a lyrical side of tango, but the result is little more than mundane posturing.
Couples sweep up the path in a tango embrace; a group sit motionless, legs crossed.
(And if you do go to Buenos Aires, take the evening group tango lesson at La Catedral on Tuesday nights. It's quite the scene).
Somewhere in there you'll have to tango with conspiracy groups as well as, well, let's just say those "mutant citizens" come in all shapes and sizes.
The group performed "Tango Inferno" at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday night, an evening of tangos created by Yanina Fajar, the director of choreography, and German Cornejo, assistant choreographer, both of whom dance here as well.
The group mixes tango with everything from hip-hop to house, but it is songs such as Exodo II, where tango instrumentation meanders around a jungle breakbeat, that really hit the spot.
The tango dancer in the group, Jeff Blustein, is also a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and an expert in medical ethics.
Seven nights at Algodon Mansion, including five private lessons at Tango Escuela Carlos Copello, three group classes and a Rojo Tango show, starts from £3,200pp, including return flights with British Airways.
