Having read the Londonist review of Tanguera last week, and been vaguely intrigued by the tube posters, on a whim I went to see this tango inspired piece at Sadler’s Wells this evening.
It’s wonderful. It’s a 90 minute simple story told via dance, with several songs, about a young French girl arriving in Argentina and being dragged into prostitution despite having fallen for a waterfront worker.
OK – so the story’s not much good. But the dancing is tremendous, and the music is addictive.
I’ve no doubt that this production has been around the world lots of times, but that doesn’t make it any less good, and it’s well worth a visit if you enjoy dance. And I freely admit that I don’t get to see nearly enough dance myself.