Academia Nacional del Tango de Buenos Aires
“A decade was left to compete the XX century and I lived this dream: tango had an institution of academic hallmark, to mediate it, professionalize it and to know it’s history, aesthetics and to promote it’s creation.”
Horacio Ferrer
Av. de Mayo 833
1084 Buenos Aires
Argentina
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The Academy is home to a Library of Archives and a Museum, which is a passage through the history of Tango since the 1850’s until present day. It includes the Olympus of the Glory days, Homage to the creators of Tango, images and sounds of all the epochs with recitals in music, dance and singing and the museum store.
“The Tango: from it’s present to it’s initial roots, it has been a century and a half of dreams, nights, encounters, corners and solitude, of apogee and of crisis. Ten generations have lived it’s stories and legends, it’s anecdotes, creating and appreciating it’s poems, songs, the jewels of orchestration, the artistry of it’s dancers.” H.F.
The education at the Acamedia includes Academic Seminars, Plenary Session, the ‘Liceo Superior del Tango,’ which offers extensive courses, Conservatory of the Styles "Argentino Galván," Patrimony Division (dedicated to study preservation and promotion of the genre), Fine Arts Exhibits, Courses of Tango Dance and Library. In addition the Academia has six publications, dedicated to tango. More detailed information can be found by going to the following links:
Horacio Ferrer & Leonardo Suarez Paz,
receiving the title
Academia Nacional de Tango is the only institution of it’s kind, dedicated to Tango. Founded by and presided over by poet and twice Nobel Prize nominee for Literature, Horacio Ferrer, the Academy is the sixteenth in the history of National Academies in Argentina, and was made official on June 28, 1990, by Decree 1235 of the National Executive power and is part of the Ministry of Education and the Secretariat of National Culture of Argentina.
The reasons for the creation of the Academy, briefly put, are that Tango, as musical, choreographic, poetic and interpretive art form, encompasses a century of inalterable validity, as authentic and profound expression of the Argentine people and as such this artistic patrimony must be compiled, arranged, studied and professionalized and thus saved from any possibility of loss or destruction, this goal being true in Argentina and world-wide.
In 2007 in a unanimous vote of the Directive Council, Leonardo Suarez Paz was appointed Académico Correspondiente or Academic Representative for the US in New York, from the Academia Nacional del Tango of Buenos Aires. As such he conducts lectures and courses in New York and the United States and works on cross-cultural programs and collaborations. Those desiring to participate in classes or to conduct events in collaboration with the Academia in New York, should contact Leonardo Suarez Paz.
