LAOKOONTANGO
PRESENTATION
Tango Studio LAOKOONTANGO*, created by Ivaylo Alexandroff in 2005 in Sofia, is the new whiff of the Tango culture in Bulgaria which slowly, but with a great impetuosity is forcing away. LAOKOONTANGO chosen for their amploa Tango Argentino - splendor and aristocratic elegance of the original. An open space, which is created with the idea to serfs imagine of the youth generation about one clearly classical form of dancing. LAOKOONTANGO is an advanced concept and an alternative medium for propagation of Tango Argentino in Bulgaria with a direct focus on all people with modern and extravagant thinking, obsessed by the creative spirit of dance! They work extremely in the innovative sphere of the most modern style of performance and teaching Tango Argentino – TANGO NUEVO and with proper professionalism they interpret the fascinating elegance of TANGO de SALON.
Their complete experience is the result of our exclusively creative, professional and pedagogical collaboration with the most prominent names in the world of Argentine Tango: Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, Alejandra Mantiñan & Gabriel Misse, Damian Esell & Nancy Louzan, Adrian Veredice & Alejandra Hobert, Juan Carlos Copes & Johana Copes, Fabian Salas & Carolina del Rivero, Dana Frigoli & Pablo Villarraza, Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli & Juana Sepulveda, Sebastian Arce & Mariana Montes, Pablo Inza, Gaston Torelli, Mariela Sametband, Moira Castellano, Esteban Moreno & Claudia Codega, Horacio Godoy & Cecilia Garcia, Natacha Poberaj & Roberto Herrera, Fabian Peralta & Verginia Pandolfi, Javier Rodriguez y Geraldine Rojas, Milena Plebs y Ezequiel Farfaro, Julio Balmaceda & Corina de la Rosa, Pablo Rodriguez & Noelia Hurtado, Federico Naveira & Ines Muzzopappa, Gustavo Rosas & Gisela Natoli, Pablo Veron, Miguel Angel Zotto, Osvaldo Zotto, Juan Carlos Copes, “El Pulpo” Esbrez, Roberto Reis, Carlos Copello, Mora Godoy, La Familia Misse, La Familia Naveira; Tango Schools: Academia Nacional del Tango, Escuela Argentina de Tango, DNI, "Carlos Copello", "Juan Carlos Copes", "Mora Godoy" Tango Brujo and many more.
They have participated in numerous dance events at home and abroad (Argentina, South Korea, China, whole Europe, Egypt and more) as stage performers and instructors in seminars and workshops, and have created multiple theater and show tango choreography. They are choreographers on the dance show "Dancing Stars" of bTV. They are performers and instructors of the dance festival "Sofia Dance Week". For the first time in Europe, LAOKOONTANGO and NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY bring practical learning of Tango Argentino as a formal university discipline program for students - Faculty of Basic Education, Centre for Continuing Education, Theatre Department, and with South-East European Center for Semiotic Studies and as an official course within the annual International School on Semiotics in the town of Sozopol. For the first time in the history of Bulgarian Tango, LAOKOONTANGO, in the face of Ivaylo Alexandroff and Gabriela Pancheva represent Bulgaria at the World Tango Championships in 2008 - World TreX-Games Tango Championship, Busan, South Korea '2008. For the first time in the history of Bulgarian pop music, LAOKOONTANGO creates complete tango-choreography to the music video and performed leading roles in the production of Indiepaint / Vitality Music - the song "Sing" of the international music project Bob Worren; produced by MTel video project by Nina Nikolina & Kalin Veliov "Anna’s Kiss"; video project "Libertango" by Astor Piazzolla performed by Vesko Panteleev-Eschkenazy (violin) and Adriana Nikolova - Pechenkata (beatbox) and produced by Dream Team Productions; video project and single by Mariana Popova "Truth" produced by Igor Markovski; video production of Alma Mater TV and BNTV -"Atelier".
They are the creators, choreographers and performers of TANGOMACHINE, the only dance tango performance of its kind in Bulgaria, as well as the film version TANGOMACHINE - THE MOVIE, created under the patronage of the Embassy of Argentina in Bulgaria.
They are the creators, choreographers and performers of TANGOMACHINE, the only dance tango performance of its kind in Bulgaria, as well as the film version TANGOMACHINE - THE MOVIE, created under the patronage of the Embassy of Argentina in Bulgaria.
Over the years they have partnered successfully with Sofia Municipality, HelmsBriscoe, American Chamber in Commerce in Bulgaria, Embassy of Argentine Republic, Embassy of India, New Bulgarian University, BASF, Lions Clubs International, International Women's Club of Sofia (IWC-Sofia), Creative Solutions, Global Coins and Medals, Allure Events, Megachim, Inter Expo Center, WTC Interpred, Congress Center Sofia, National Palace of Culture, Bulgaria Hall, Sofia Philharmonie, National Theater, Satira Theater - Sofia, Drama Theater - Pazardjik, AraBiz, Forum for Arab Culture, Mall Galeria Plovdiv, Dancing Stars Show, New Year Music Festival, Sofia Dance Week, Park Live Fest, Antistatic Fest, Festival of Hair & Beauty, BNTV, bTV, TV7, BNR; Playboy, Maximum, Grazia, Women's Magazine, High Flights Magazines and many other media (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines), theaters, organizations and promoters of concerts and dance events, private and institutional clients, charities.
Regardless of who, when, how and where it is touched by the aesthetics of Tango Argentino, LAOKOONTANGO stared deep into sensory need anyone to release its spiritual impulse in the swirling dynamics of everyday life and to introduce them the magic of the TANGO.
LAOKOONTANGO - alternative aesthetics in Argentine Tango training, participation in concert and stage forums, festival and congress activities, corporate and company events, private parties, wedding and anniversary celebrations, advertising and video actions, fashion shows, theater performances, workshops and seminars...
TO AIR THE WINGS!
MANIFEST
Tango is an aesthetical reaction, a cosmogony of the spirit and a gaping wound caused by the obsessive sensеlessness of daily routine.
Laokoontango is reactionary aesthetics, spiritual cosmos, a daily healing obsession of the shamanic trance.
Tango is a radical resistance against the banality and madness of an empty mind, a moral protection against contemporary kitsch.
Laokoontango is an anti-reflexive reaction of the personal Ego against this spiritual wasteland, a creative alternative to every devalorized passion.
Tango is a deep penetration into the strata of the human soul, where the native vortex of that relaxing Duende** oscillates, shattering the horrors of civilization.
Laokoontango is a permanent Duende and not: CIA, FSB, Mossad, M16, Microsoft, The World Bank, The Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, NATO, Religious Fundamentalism, Vatican, CNN... an endless list of senseless word orders which is an outgrowth of the perversity of our civilization.
Tango is the indulgent muteness of words, the metaphysical expansion of our bodies, the cardinal spiral of movement, an alphabet of conscious contemplation.
Laokoontango is an offensive breath of conscious achievement; an open door for all dreams and wishes that went wrong; the space of revolution... in the field of planetary boredom.
Tango is the unbridled ecstasy of our own identity which is evoked to liberate us from the feudalism of our own history.
Laokoontango is a centrifuge of identity, the exalted game of muddy mythologies; the free style of those emerging from the bog of a molded way of life.
Tango is wrestled from our souls painful wail of loneliness; it is the barricade of our feelings against the social formalism and the key to the chains of interpersonal fear.
Laokoontango is a provocation to unite with the dangerous other, a preserved oasis of the expression of I can, the freedom to touch the entire world.
Tango is the vocation to leave the naphthaline coat of resignation and submission in the closet and to aggressively display the vivid jacket of passion which has wasted away from lack of use.
Laokoontango is the execution of the orthodox, dusty and lousy from the proxy flight, a brutal expansion of the liberated soul and the banished temperament and the visual orgy of challenge.
LAOKOONTANGO widely opens a window to air the wings!
*Laocoön or Laokoon (in Greek language: Λαοκοων)
- In the ancient Greek mythology - Trojan priest who warned the Trojans not to accept the Greek wooden horse.
- Practically the ordinary man who dared to make a stand against the will of the Gods to defend the truth and freedom; symbol for “rebel”, man who has opposed to the standards and the forced canons.
- The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group, is a monumental marble sculpture, now in the Vatican Museums, Rome. The sculpture "Laokoon," at the Vatican Museums, was unearthed in 1506, but a new theory says it is a forgery by Michelangelo.
**Duende (in Spanish)
- a ghost, an evil spirit
- inspiration, magic, fire