Peacock theatre,London
Featuring music from Abba, Coolio and the film Titanic, and this frenetic shakeup of the traditional tango format has little time for poetry or emotional nuanceDancer and director German Cornejo has said that he wants to shatter away from standard tango note formats,and with Immortal Tango he has certainly succeeded. It is a head-spinning mix of cabaret, variety, and rock gig,pantomime, cruise-ship entertainment and fantasy fashion parade. One minute you’re transfixed by the switchblade footwork of a precision-tooled duet between Cornejo and regular partner Gisela Galeassi, and the next you’re watching a gaggle of 1920s debutantes on a picnic excursion getting all jazz-age with their beaux. Then their governess (Carlos Debat,in drag) suddenly has a turn as a kind of Argentinian Widow Twankey. There’s a fleeting feathery number à la Folies Bergère, a macho tango match, and a ballerina wafts among sinister,crimson-cowled men in an entirely unexpected mashup of the Dying Swan and the Masque of the Red Death.
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Source: theguardian.com