Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100

EL NUEVO TANGO

a genre-redefining, multidisciplinary show infused with jazz, rock and ​modern dance
​ - a tango show for the new century

​NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place, New York NY

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2022   7:30 PM

Following a sold-out performance at the famed "Ballena Azul," in Buenos Aires, Leonardo Suarez Paz, the multifaceted “virtuoso extraordinaire,” (Wynton Marsalis) brings his show to NYU Skirball.
A 16-member cast with Nuevo Tango Ensemble and Nuevo Tango Ballet, share a new vision of this emotionally moving art form, while honoring Leonardo’s mentor, Astor Piazzolla, by demonstrating Tango as an evolving, daring,
artistically complex and emotionally moving art form.

​​"Powerful and sensual" (All About Jazz)  "The harmonically sophisticated" ​(Gramophone, UK) 
​"Tango Master of the 21st Century" ​(LATINA, Japan)

10% DISCOUNT for group of 10 or more tickets
May 14th performance of "El Nuevo Tango" is made possible in part with funding from the
New York State Council on the Arts
individual contributions made through our fiscal sponsor
New York Foundation for the Arts 
 and support from our sponsors
 Sotheby's International Realty
​Reno Design 
​we thank the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
​for support in the development and premiere of "El Nuevo Tango"

May 14th Performance at NYU Skirball features 16 artists & multimedia

Nuevo Tango Ensemble - Leonardo Suarez Paz - (direction, violin soloist, vocalist & choreographer), Patience Higgins - tenor saxophone soloist, members of Latin Grammy-nominated Cuaretango string quartet - Sami Merdinian (violin I), Francisco Salazar (violin II), Jon Weber (viola), Leo Grinhauz (cello), Rodolfo Zanetti (bandoneon), Ahmed Alom (piano), Emilio Teubal (keyboard), Konrad Adderley (contrabass), Matt Vander Ende (drums). 

Nuevo Tango Ballet - Olga Suarez Paz - direction & choreography, Leonardo Suarez Paz and Laura Roatta (ACE Award) - choreography. Francesca Antonacci, Caitlyn Casson, Mathilde Guerrero, Brianna Rivera - dancers.

Special visual arts & film feature includes works by two female artists who had a significant influence on the genre, the painter Dedé Wolff,  the wife of Astor Piazzolla, and Lulú Michelli de Ferrer, surrealist painter, illustrator, and window of poet Horacio Ferrer, Piazzolla's lyricist and co-creator of the Nuevo Tango.
​The show also includes rare footage of Piazzolla in a bilingual format (English/Spanish)
El Nuevo Tango was developed as part of Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100 and  premiered at the FDR 4 Freedoms Park with the support of  the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, City Artists Corps Grant, Music Performance Trust Fund, Dance/NYC,  FDR 4 Freedoms Park Conservancy, and the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation.  ​The production comes to NYU Skirball Center in New York, following National Radio and Television appearances in Argentina and a triumphant sold-out performance at the famed “Ballena Azul,” CCK in Buenos Aires. and contributions from individual donors, through our fiscal sponsor, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).

​​BOOKING "EL NUEVO TANGO" FOR UPCOMING SEASON

16 artists including an 11 member Nuevo Tango Ensemble, a tango-jazz orchestra with special soloists,
​Nuevo Tango  Ballet and multimedia with visual arts and rare footage of Piazzolla
available for festivals, world, jazz, crossover, new music series and special programs
"Escualo" as performed at the FDR 4 Freedoms Park in October 2021.
"Violentango" as performed at the FDR 4 Freedoms Park in October 2021.
Powerful and sensual.
- All About Jazz, London UK
​Leonardo Suarez Paz is surely now the torchbearer of Argentine Tango and the legacy of its greatest composer, Astor Piazzolla.
- All About Jazz, London UK
Leonardo Suarez Paz - Tango Master of the 21st Century.
​- LATINA, Japan
In Leonardo's hands, it merges deftly with jazz.
- All About Jazz, London UK
Feel that Piazzolla is more alive than ever.
​- Teleshow, Buenos Aires
Suarez Paz … best last names of the tango legacy.
- Diario La Critica Argentina
The art and music of Leonardo Suarez Paz: Because tango is a music for dancing. It is classical music. It is dance and poetry and song. It is about the free, creative expression of the soul. It's about life―or rather what it can be.
- All About Jazz, D. Heinning
The harmonically sophisticated arrangements by Leonardo Suárez Paz are superb, as is his sardonic Milonga de los monsters – an unlikely yet happy marriage of Prokofiev and tango nuevo.
- GRAMOPHONE, UK 
A magnificent performance filled with all the virtues of tango.
- All About Jazz, London UK
Suarez Paz’s father, a brilliant tango violinist, had been one of Piazzolla’s principal collaborators, and from the first bar it was clear that the father and the son were made of the same stuff.
​- Flying High, JAZZIZ Magazine
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Leonardo Suarez Paz is tango royalty.
- All About Jazz, London UK

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They played with enormous passion, performing three pieces by Suárez Paz's mentor, Astor Piazzolla... Suárez Paz sang the beautiful ballad, joined by his wife, Olga Suárez Paz... Paz's singing voice is gorgeous... brought loud cheers from the audience.
​- Broadway World Review 
Leonardo Suarez Paz, "virtuoso extraordinaire on the violin" (Wynton Marsalis) star of multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy Awarded albums (Placido Domingo, Ruben Blades, Luis Miguel), was born into a cradle of tango and grew up among its stars in a time of the tango revolution.  His mentors and family friends - Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Ferrer and his father, Fernando Suarez Paz passed along to him their vision and their dreams. His journey took him from his artistic debut at the age of 6 as a singer, to becoming the youngest member of the Teatro Colon Opera House at age 16 as a violinist, to plying as a soloist and dancing with all of the major tango stars such as Mariano Mores, Horacio Salgan, Atilio Stampone to playing jazz with with Jim Hall, Kenny Drew Jr., Stanley Jordan, Steve Kuhn and Savion Glover, to arranging for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. He embodies all that is part of this complex genre today, inspired by everything that surrounded him since childhood, he is the music, the song, the poetry and the dance of Buenos Aires, the past in his heart and and one foot in the future, he is Leonardo Suarez Paz -  EL NUEVO TANGO. ​
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May 14, 2022  7:30 PM
WHERE: NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
DIGITAL PROGRAM
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March 19, 2021 8:00  PM // 19 de Marzo, 20:00 horas
WHERE: Centro Cultural Kirchner, Sala Nacional "La Ballena Azul"  Buenos Aires ARGENTINA 
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​October 17, 2021 5:30 PM
WHERE: Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, Roosevelt Island NYC 10044
DIGITAL PROGRAM - OCTOBER 17, 2021
FREE Event, registration required   TICKETS ​
SAME DAY TICKETS are available at the venue on a first come first serve basis  

​DECEMBER 12, 2020 4 PM  (EST)   
STREAMING - LIVE PREMIER of Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: El Nuevo Tango
An interdisciplinary show infused with jazz, rock and ​modern dance - a tango show for the new century!
Featuring a tango-jazz orchestra and dancers of the Nuevo Tango Ballet - reduced cast due to covid restrictions. 
This program is produced with the support of Public Purpose Fund from  RIOC and individual donors.
Please support live performing arts by making a tax deductible donation. 
DONATIONS     WATCH LINK - 4 PM EST - Extended! Did you miss the live, interactive premier? Use the same link to watch now

​DECEMBER 5, 2020 6:30 PM  
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: El Nuevo Tango
An interdisciplinary show infused with jazz, rock and ​modern dance - a tango show for the new century!
Featuring a tango-jazz orchestra and dancers of the Nuevo Tango Ballet 
This program is produced with the support of Public Purpose Fund from  RIOC and individual donors. Please support live performing arts by making a tax deductible donation.​
DUE TO COVID-19 the seating has been lowered to 5% capacity. No more than 2 people per reservation.  Reservations and health screening is required to attend this event live. 
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JANUARY 13th, 2020 10:30 AM
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: El Nuevo Tango
Special Showcase Performance, Consulate General Of Argentina in New York 
Suggested Donation in support of the project $50
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED     DONATIONS    

JANUARY 13th, 2020 11:15 AM
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: El Nuevo Tango 
Special Showcase Performance, Consulate General Of Argentina in New York 
Consulate General Of Argentina in New York, Suggested Donation in support of the project $50
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED     DONATIONS