Tango and theater - Pablo Veron

The Victorian age mixed with tango - Henkrik Ibsen's playwright Ghosts approached from a tango point of view. Director Per-Olav Sorensen and Pablo Veron teamed up together with Norways' national theater in a project in which a new generation of directors, designers and performers combine their talents in dance, music, video, scenography with texts of classical plays into a uniquely new theatrical fabric.

Ibsen’s ”GHOSTS” is filled with lonely people, unable to fulfill their dreams, trapped in their traditions. There is an underlying sensual aroma in conversations taking place in a ”polite” living room, surrounded by constant rain outside. For the ”TanGhost” team this was the perfect setup for bringing tango into the play. Tango is also described as a dance ”in which two lonely people meet, and dance out their loneliness”.

The Argentinian tango star Pablo Veron, known from the movie “The Tango Lesson”, directed by Sally Potter, is both actor in the production as well as its choreographer. As the performer of Ms. Alving’s dead husband, Mr. Veron adds another character to the original five written by Ibsen.

The visual concept of the production is a combination of imaginative lighting, video art and animation and Dobrusky’s simple, yet magical scenography.
“TanGhost” is filled with Sverre Indris Joner’s new original tango-esque music, with obvious links to modern beats of hip hop and Nordic sound of jazz.

“TanGhost” is a stage fairytale of Henrik Ibsen’s chilling psychology, tango tension, supreme dancing with Pablo Veron in the lead, superb actors of The National Theatre of Norway, exciting music, compelling visual elements– all navigated by director Per-Olav Sørensen

In the international tour, the text in “TanGhost” will be spoken in the original Norwegian with subtitles in English or the local language.

NEXT PERFORMANCES IN 2006

10-11.8	Kulturhuset, Grimstad - Norway
12.8	Nøtterøy Kulturhus- Norway
16-19.8	Dramaten, hovedscenen, Stockholm - Sweden
22.8	Nordens Hus, Torshavn - The Faroe Islands
25.8 -2.9	The International Ibsen Festival, Christiania Teater , (Filmteateret), Oslo - Norway
6-8.9	Beijing Ibsen Festival, The Haidian Theater, Beijing - China
11-13.9	Arts Theatre, Shanghai - China, - part of Asian Contemporary Arts Festival
19-21.9	Espoo City Theatre, Helsinki -Finland
28-30.9	Den Nationale Scene, Bergen - Norway
2,3,4.10	Ekstraforestillinger, Christiania Teater, Oslo Norway
8-9.10	Divado v Dlouhe, Prague - Czech Republic
12.10	Ibsenhuset, Skien - Norway
14.10	Drammens Teater, Drammen - Norway
20-21.10	The National Theatre, Sofia - Bulgaria

Read more at the Tanghost website