The feature debut of actor Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale, premiering in Berlin's Perspectives section, brings us a ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Based in the rich Argentinian traditions of the gaucho, or South American cowboy, ...
Gilles Brinas was an acclaimed dancer and choreographer in Europe in the early ’70s when he was captivated by a Malambo dance performance in Paris. The stylized Malambo, a 400-year-old Argentine dance ...
BECKET — Dancing Argentine cowboys — who knew? Ella Baff and dancer-choreographer Gilles Brinas know. Among Baff’s last duties after 17 years as director of Jacob’s Pillow Dance was planning this year ...
When choreographer Gilles Brinas ventured from Paris to Buenos Aires in 2005, intending to pluck a native art form from obscurity, it must've seemed like a quixotic pursuit even to him. Though ...
Gilles Brinas believes in intuitive magic. According to the Paris-born and -based choreographer and ensemble director, that’s what led him to create the Argentine dance company Che Malambo. He’d seen ...
Trapped in a shoe store in Buenos Aires during an end-of-world hailstorm in 2001, I gritted as ice the size of ball bearings struck the steel roof like shotgun blasts. Imagine the scene described ...
Che Malambo is a dance and musical spectacle – a performance that debuted in Paris in 2007 and has earned international acclaim for its precision footwork, rhythmic stomping, drumming and song.