"TANGO - AN ENTIRE CULTURE" "EL TANGO - UNA CULTURA "
- Horacio Ferrer
- Horacio Ferrer
Leonardo Suarez Paz’s PIAZZOLLA 100 is a multidisciplinary performing arts project which draws on the common roots of tango, jazz, classical and popular genres as shaped by the culture of African and European migration to the new world. The project is named after Leonardo Suarez Paz's mentor and family friend, Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine-born and New York raised composer who revolutionized 21 century music. We honor his legacy by demonstrating the genre's continuing evolution.
Our mission is to further tango as a contemporary art form across all disciplines through live music and dance performances, exhibits, recordings, film, and education. To continue the genre’s evolution and its relationship with jazz, contemporary classical and popular genres, challenge artistic and sociocultural constructs and promote cross-cultural collaboration.
We seek to make known the history and aesthetics of nuevo tango as a genre inspired by African, European, Latin, and Indigenous heritages and cultural influences of Buenos Aires and New York City. We strive to demonstrate tango’s inherent capacity to connect and unite across cultures and generations, promote innovation, self-determination, and freedom of expression. We foster artistic excellence, the creation of new work, collaboration across genres and disciplines and strive to serve as a catalyst for professional growth among our artists and communities.
Thank you for making an investment into the artistic voices of today
who will enrich the collective cultural heritage of New York City and beyond.
Our mission is to further tango as a contemporary art form across all disciplines through live music and dance performances, exhibits, recordings, film, and education. To continue the genre’s evolution and its relationship with jazz, contemporary classical and popular genres, challenge artistic and sociocultural constructs and promote cross-cultural collaboration.
We seek to make known the history and aesthetics of nuevo tango as a genre inspired by African, European, Latin, and Indigenous heritages and cultural influences of Buenos Aires and New York City. We strive to demonstrate tango’s inherent capacity to connect and unite across cultures and generations, promote innovation, self-determination, and freedom of expression. We foster artistic excellence, the creation of new work, collaboration across genres and disciplines and strive to serve as a catalyst for professional growth among our artists and communities.
Thank you for making an investment into the artistic voices of today
who will enrich the collective cultural heritage of New York City and beyond.
Leonardo Suarez Paz’s Piazzolla 100 operates as a 501 c 3as a project fiscally sponsored by
the New York Foundation for the Arts. Your contribution is tax deductible
the New York Foundation for the Arts. Your contribution is tax deductible
Artistic Director and “virtuoso extraordinaire,” Leonardo Suarez Paz, creates across cultures and genres, continuing a family legacy of over 100 years in the genre, beginning with Gabino Ezeiza to Fernando Suarez Paz who was instrumental in creating the Nuevo Tango alongside Piazzolla. A member of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colon, Leonardo's work as a soloist includes the most distinguished tango orchestras such as those of Mariano Mores, Horacio Salgan, Atilio Stampone, Osvaldo Berlingieri and the shows Tangox2 and Perfumes de Tango where he was also featured as a dancer. He was the soloist in both Broadway tango shows Forever Tango and Tango Argentino, with Placido Domingo, Ruben Blades, Carlos Franzetti, Patience Higgins, Jim Hall, Kenny Drew Jr., Steve Kuhn, Savion Glover and many others. Following in the footsteps of his mentors Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, Leonardo “shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there.” (Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director Jazz at Lincoln Center)
Artistic Director and “virtuoso extraordinaire,” Leonardo Suarez Paz, creates across cultures and genres, continuing a family legacy of over 100 years in the genre, beginning with Gabino Ezeiza to Fernando Suarez Paz who was instrumental in creating the Nuevo Tango alongside Piazzolla. A member of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colon, Leonardo's work as a soloist includes the most distinguished tango orchestras such as those of Mariano Mores, Horacio Salgan, Atilio Stampone, Osvaldo Berlingieri and the shows Tangox2 and Perfumes de Tango where he was also featured as a dancer. He was the soloist in both Broadway tango shows Forever Tango and Tango Argentino, with Placido Domingo, Ruben Blades, Carlos Franzetti, Patience Higgins, Jim Hall, Kenny Drew Jr., Steve Kuhn, Savion Glover and many others. Following in the footsteps of his mentors Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, Leonardo “shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there.” (Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director Jazz at Lincoln Center)
Leonardo Suarez Paz is surely now the torchbearer of Argentine Tango and the legacy of its greatest composer, Astor Piazzolla. Leonardo Suarez Paz is Tango Royalty... powerful and sensual. |
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.” His knowledge of the tango violin playing conveys a century of individual styles. |
PIAZZOLLA 100
Piazzolla 100 is unprecedented in format and takes place in New York City, a place of great importance for Tango from Carlos Gardel in the 1930’s to Astor Piazzolla, who was born in Argentina and raised in New York's Little Italy. Every year we offer a wide range of programs including a chamber music with dance, interdisciplinary shows, art exhibits, film screenings, a literary night and a series of master classes and lectures, bringing together top artists from all disciplines who form a part of the genre's renewal and highlighting the importance of women in post Piazzolla Nuevo Tango.
Piazzolla 100 includes a touring format, which combines all disciplines into one production and includes music, dance, poetry, visual art and cinema into a multidisciplinary show that is redefining the genre, this production is EL NUEVO TANGO.
PIAZZOLLA 100 is based on over 4 generations of tango legacy and contributions from 50 artists and scholars helped create the programs of Leonardo Suarez Paz's Piazzolla 100 over the past decade and despite the pandemic of 2020, we celebrated Piazzolla's Centennial during the 2021-22 season in New York City and in Buenos Aires, closing that cycle in March of 2022 with "El Nuevo Tango" at the famed hall "Sala Ballena Azul" of Centro Cultural Kirchner where the company played to a sold out house of 2,600.
Today we continue the genre's evolution as a genre with an inherent capacity to unite. We support artistic excellence, the creation of new work, collaboration across genres and disciplines and serve as a catalyst for professional growth among our artists and communities.
Today we continue the genre's evolution as a genre with an inherent capacity to unite. We support artistic excellence, the creation of new work, collaboration across genres and disciplines and serve as a catalyst for professional growth among our artists and communities.
"The Year of two thousand and twenty one and Piazzolla's Centennial is not the end, it is the beginning. It is my dream that 2021 can mark a new era for our genre, a new century of creation and evolution, so that artistic voices everywhere can feel the living art that is Nuevo Tango and its inherent capacity to connect us as human beings." - Leonardo Suarez Paz, Artistic Director
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Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100 and all of its public programs is made possible by the NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (NYSCA) with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Additional Support for PIAZZOLLA 100 is provided by our sponsors SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY & RENO DESIGN
and donations from individual donors through our fiscal sponsor NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (NYFA)
Special programs were made possible by the LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL, CITY ARTISTS CORPS GRANT, DANCE/NYC, FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY and the MID ATLANTIC ARTS FOUNDATION
TOURING PRODUCTIONS
Grenre-redefining multidisciplinary show
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Theatrical chamber concert with dance
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2xLatin GRAMMY nom. nuevo tango
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