What patronage is about.

TANGO CONGO PROJECT

BY MILENA PLEBS

APPROVED UNDER THE LAW OF  PATRONAGE

SUPPORTING YOUR CITY’S CULTURE

Support our “TANGO CONGO” project through the Law of Patronage which enables you to allocate part of your company’s tax payments to the encouragement of Cultural Projects. In this way and at no cost your company gains in image and promotion as well as participates civically in the regional cultural development.

Companies are becoming each time more and more actively involved in the culture of their country.  This is simply because they do not need to invest their own funds but on the contrary it is the government who as a matter of fact finances this type of undertakings.

Companies redirect FOR ONE TIME ONLY a percentage of their Gross Income tax payment to our project in a swift and easy process.

WHAT KIND OF  PROJECT  AM I COOPERATING WITH?
“TANGO CONGO” is a choreographic, musical and anthropological project that investigates into the Afro origin of the Tango. It is part of the show “TRAMATANGO” declared of interest by the Council of Cultural Promotion, approved by the Ministry of Culture of Argentina due to its high cultural impact and directed by the renowned and distinguished dancer and choreographer Milena Plebs.

HOW CAN I PAY IN MY CONTRIBUTION?
You can contact Milena Plebs’s office on 4804 5595. Or you can do it straight away, by printing the following deposit slip under http://www.agip.gov.ar/web/ventanillas/ley_mecenazgo.htm and making the payment in any branch of Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Remember that whatever you contribute will be considered directly as a payment on the account of your Gross Income Taxes corresponding to the year when you make the donation.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF MY CONTRIBUTION CAN I ASSIGN TO THE PROJECT?
You can assign up to 2% of what you pay by way of Gross Income Taxes one year in advance. For example, if in 2009 your company paid $50,000 in Gross Income, in 2010 you can contribute $1,000 irrespective of what time of the year you make your contribution
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Summary

Tango Congo
Idea, script and choreography: Milena Plebs
 
The TANGO CONGO Project seeks to delve into the Afro origin of Tango. The desire to explore this hypothesis arose not only from the evident muzzling regarding the part the Afro community played, it also arose from the clear intention of certain spheres of society to “bleach” these influences.  This is not so much the case of the milonga or the candombe, where the Afro mark is more distinguishable, but in the tango itself, which is the synthesis of the contributions of different cultures arriving in the RIo de la Plata.
Tango Congo in  “Tramatango” is a fantasy pointing to this origin and does not mean to have any historical significance, but merely recreate the enormous influence that the Afro culture had on our country, something that is not always acknowledged.
The work is divided into two sections 
Part One, “Rojo ritual” (“Red ritual”) is a kind of fable about a girl in a primitive tribe who narrates her passage from adolescence to adulthood as well as her relationships throughout. The choreography revolves around elements that blend contemporary dance with tango, somehow showing the development  from the hypothetical origins of the incipient movements of tango, up to its fully fledged stage of evolution.  Making use of this story, the work aims to show the contrast between women’s  innate strength and the role of submission to men that they have been imposed on by society. The accompanying sound is the result of three percussionists on stage, together with the music of a modern tango composed and registered by Ramiro Gallo and his orchestra
Part Two, “Sitio de Tangos” (“Tango site”) portrays a typical Afro celebration of immigrants brought as slaves from Africa in colonial times.  In those days, slaves and families would perform their dances, songs and religious rituals in the backyards of their masters’ manors, where they lived. Despite their despiriting state of confinement, these slaves never relinquished their culture but managed to keep a joyful and lively spirit. The choreography focuses on the rhythms and counterpoints of the traditional tango and milonga, subtly emphasized by the beat of drums over the sound of their original recordings.
The creative process of Tramatango  originates from the research into the traces of the Afro culture, not only in Argentina but in the American continent as a whole,  as mirrored in books, documentaries, photographs and in records on the Internet.  It also stems from talks with some of the few Afro-descendants still alive today.

Milena Plebs