"TANGO - AN ENTIRE CULTURE" "EL TANGO - UNA CULTURA "
- Horacio Ferrer
- Horacio Ferrer
Founded in 2019, Leonardo Suarez-Paz’s PIAZZOLLA100 is a multidisciplinary performing arts project built on the cultural legacy of 4 tango generations and named after Leonardo’s mentor, Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine-born and New York-raised composer who revolutionized 20th-century music and created nuevo tango. We honor Piazzolla’s legacy by demonstrating the genre's continuing evolution. Year 2025 marks the 1st multidisciplinary performing arts festival
PIAZZZOLLA100: THE NEW YORK TANGO FESTIVAL, JUNE 12-17, 2025.
MISSION
The mission of Leonardo Suarez-Paz’s PIAZZOLLA100 is to preserve tango's rich cultural legacy and advance its evolution through live music and dance performances, visual arts, cinema and education.
As part of our mission, we further tango's relationship with jazz, classical, contemporary, and world genres; challenge artistic and sociocultural constructs and promote unity and collaboration across cultures.
VISION
We are dedicated to unifying the world through tango.
Inspired by the genre’s African, European, Latin, and Indigenous roots and the collaboration among immigrants and local populations, we expand on tango’s inherent capacity to connect people across all backgrounds and create relevant narratives that underline our shared humanity and our right to freedom of expression.
Please consider support PIAZZOLLA100 by making a tax-deductible donation today. Your
investment into the artistic voices of today will enrich the collective cultural heritage of New York City and beyond.
PIAZZZOLLA100: THE NEW YORK TANGO FESTIVAL, JUNE 12-17, 2025.
MISSION
The mission of Leonardo Suarez-Paz’s PIAZZOLLA100 is to preserve tango's rich cultural legacy and advance its evolution through live music and dance performances, visual arts, cinema and education.
As part of our mission, we further tango's relationship with jazz, classical, contemporary, and world genres; challenge artistic and sociocultural constructs and promote unity and collaboration across cultures.
VISION
We are dedicated to unifying the world through tango.
Inspired by the genre’s African, European, Latin, and Indigenous roots and the collaboration among immigrants and local populations, we expand on tango’s inherent capacity to connect people across all backgrounds and create relevant narratives that underline our shared humanity and our right to freedom of expression.
Please consider support PIAZZOLLA100 by making a tax-deductible donation today. Your
investment into the artistic voices of today will enrich the collective cultural heritage of New York City and beyond.
Leonardo Suarez Paz’s PIAZZOLLA100 is a festival and touring program of
Nuevo Tango Arts, a 501 (c) (3)
Nuevo Tango Arts, a 501 (c) (3)
Leonardo Suarez Paz & Astor Piazzolla
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Astor Piazzolla & Fernando Suarez Paz
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Leonardo Suarez Paz & Astor Piazzolla
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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 Afro-Argentine poet & "payador" 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 tango 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. Leonardo was the soloist in Forever Tango and Tango Argentino on Broadway, with New York City Opera, Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and artists including Placido Domingo, Ruben Blades, Carlos Franzetti, Patience Higgins, Jim Hall, Kenny Drew Jr., Steve Kuhn, Savion Glover and many others. For the past two decades Leonardo directs, composes and choreographs for his multiple Latin GRAMMY-Award nominated Cuartetango string quartet, Cuartetango Music & Dance and other productions. 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 Afro-Argentine poet & "payador" 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 tango 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. Leonardo was the soloist in Forever Tango and Tango Argentino on Broadway, with New York City Opera, Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and artists including Placido Domingo, Ruben Blades, Carlos Franzetti, Patience Higgins, Jim Hall, Kenny Drew Jr., Steve Kuhn, Savion Glover and many others. For the past two decades Leonardo directs, composes and choreographs for his multiple Latin GRAMMY-Award nominated Cuartetango string quartet, Cuartetango Music & Dance and other productions. 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
Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA100 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 chamber, symphonic, and tango-jazz crossover music with tango and contemporary dance. We include visual arts, film, and literature into our programs which includes projected paintings, poetry, multimedia, and concurrent exhibits that contextualize our performances. Our educational and community engagement programs include workshops, classes, lectures, post-performance Q&As, and open rehearsals. PIAZZOLLA100 brings together the top artists from all disciplines who form a part of the genre's renewal and fosters a multigenerational, inclusive environment while highlighting the importance of women in post-Piazzolla nuevo tango.
PIAZZOLLA100 includes a touring format, which combines all disciplines into one production and includes music, dance, poetry, visual art and cinema and education into a multidisciplinary show that is redefining the genre, this production is EL NUEVO TANGO.
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MUSIC
Symphonic & Chamber Tango with Dance 
CINEMA
Film Screenings 
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DANCE & MULTIDISCIPLINARY
El Nuevo Tango & Nuevo Tango Ballet 
VISUAL ART
Exhibits 
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LITERATURE
Literature & Poetry 
EDUCATION
Lectures & Master Classes 
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PIAZZOLLA100 is based on over 4 generations of tango legacy and contributions from 50 artists and scholars helped create our programs over the past decade. 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.
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"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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Thank you for your support!
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
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