València will pay tribute to Tango on its International day with great events where music , song and dance will be its protagonists. Every December 11th, the International Day of Tango is celebrated in honour of one of its most iconic figures, Carlos Gardel. A date that pays tribute to this Rioplatense genre, declared by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and that therefore places it in the main scene of world culture. València, as a city renowned for its latent artistic life, and its appreciation for international cultural expressions, joins every year to this celebration, allowing the realization of different events in its most emblematic places that combine music and dance, for the enjoyment of a large public follower of the projects presented for over 20 years by the cultural maker Analía Bueti, invested with the Argentina Country Brand for all the work of dissemination of Tango through different projects.

Thus, on Wednesday 11 December there was an emotional tribute in front of the mural (the only one in Spain) of Carlos Gardel located in the riverbed at Paseo de la Pechina, a few metres from Guillem de Castro, joining this act to the countless tributes that will take place around the world in front of his image

On Sunday 15th December from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, the Centre del Carmen, will host once again in the beautiful and historic Refectory Hall, the MILONGA of the INTERNATIONAL TANGO DAY, with free admission, under the proposal of Analía Bueti in collaboration with the reputed Club del Tango de la Comunidad Valenciana that has been transmitting the passion for this dance for more than 25 years through its weekly milongas and its international meetings.

The celebrations will culminate on Monday 16th December with the premiere of the musical show LO QUE EL TANGO SE LLEVÓ at the emblematic ‘Teatre Talia’ in Valencia, (information attached) based on an original idea by Analía Bueti and created and directed by the famous Argentine musician Juan Esteban Cuacci, both parts of the cast, which will be completed by the bandoneon player Javier Cárdenas, and the dance couples, Débora Godoy and Carlos Guevara and Juana Escribano and David Suárez.This show will also be part of the worldwide tributes to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Alfredo Lepera, the great composer of Carlos Gardel, who left us the classic tangos that have endured through time. Undoubtedly “a great contribution to the cultural heritage of Valencia”, as Analía Bueti tells us, who highlights her work for the Tango in the city, linking her projects with figures and emblematic places of the city to integrate both cultures and thus mutually enrich each other, making it clear in each project that there are many things that unite Valencia with Rioplatense culture.

Report by ‘24/7 Valencia’ team

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