PARADE

A couple of travelling performers, a black clown and a mechanical doll, parade to the sound of the barrel organ, the first source of street tango.

Performers 

"GRAN HOTEL VICTORIA' (Feliciano Latasa)

Fabrizio Mocata (piano) 

ONE-WAY TICKET ("ALLER SIMPLE")

An emigrant crosses the ocean with her suitcase full of dreams.

Performers 

Medley "TORNA A SURRIENTO" (Ernesto De Curtis) and "MI BUENOS AIRES QUERIDO" (Carlos Gardel) Fabrizio Mocata (arrang. and piano) 

"CORAZON DE ORO" (Francisco Canaro) Pirincho Quintet 

"EL ESQUINAZO" (Angel Villoldo) Juan d'Arienzo Orchestra 

THE BACHELOR FLAT ("LA GARÇONNIÈRE")

"Lift to the 2nd floor

No doorman and no neighbour

And inside, cocktails and love"

Carlos Lenzi, "A media luz" (At half-light) 

The Bachelor Pad is performed on a box, which is a metaphor for a bulin, an apartment used for sexual encounters inspired by the famous apartment in Buenos Aires, on the second floor of 348 Avenue Corrientes.

A little "artificial paradise" which becomes a real nightmare because of human vices... 

Performers 

"VOUS, QU'AVEZ-VOUS FAIT DE MON AMOUR ?"(Henri Varna) 

Miguel Orlando Orchestra, Tino Rossi (vocals)

"LA VIRUTA" (Vicente Greco) Miguel Orlando Orchestra 

OPERA NIGHTS ("NUITS D'OPÉRA")

"My fortune was like a dream, 

A betrayal became my reality"

Roberto Lino Cayol, Noches de Colón (The nights of Colon Theatre)

Inspired by the tango "Noches de Colón", Opera nights tells the story of the rise and fall of a dandy who went from a nobleman to a beggar.

Performers 

"LE CYGNE" (Camille Saint-Saëns) 

Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

HALCON NEGRO" (Francisco Canaro) Fabrizio Mocata (piano) 

WALTZ No.3 (Agustín Barrios)*

Céline Bishop (piano)

*The choreography for Waltz No. 3 was created by Los Guardiola for the show 'Tango Secret'

TO EACH THEIR OWN TANGO ("CHACUN SON TANGO")

When the embrace becomes a challenge…

Performers 

“I’VE SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE”

Arrangement of Libertango (Astor Piazzolla)

Grace Jones 

“EL CHOCLO” (Angel Villoldo)

Orquesta Florindo Sassone

“BAJO UN CIELO DE ESTRELLAS” ('Under a sky of stars") (Francini-Stampone) 

Orquesta Miguel Calo

Alberto Podesta (canto) 

BETRAYAL ("TRAÎTRISE")

Inspired by the milonga "Amablemente", this scene tells how, from an action, time can rush into tragedy.

"Man or insect... life is fleeting.

But stupid are men

For they make themselves suffer for nothing".

Kurosawa, Spider Castle

Performers 

"CREPUSCULO" (Eduardo Bianco) 

Eduardo Bianco Orchestra 

THE HURRICANE ("L'OURAGAN")

"Evaporated dreams and desires give birth to clouds"

Kôbô Abe, Life of a Poet (translation by Alain Castets)

Performers 

"EL HURACÁN" (Edgardo Donato) 

Fabrizio Mocata (piano)

PAPER HEART ("CŒUR PAPIER")

"Little rag doll 

Dressed as Pierrot, 

Though you have no soul

I love only you 

Little rag doll,

Paper hear"

Alberto Franco, Paper hearth

The white act of the show, this lunar pantomime invites on a dreamland.

And…

"Life, what is it but a dream?'

Lewis Carroll, "A boat beneath a sunny sky" 

Performers 

 "CLAIR DE LUNE" (Claude Debussy, arrangement by Nick Baron)

Jenny Marasti (vibraphone)

"MOCATANDEM" (Fabrizio Mocata) 

Fabrizio Mocata (piano)

MARCELO GUARDIOLA 

Marcelo Guardiola is an Argentinean actor, dancer, musician, lighting designer and director based in France. 

He began his studies at the age of eight in the Municipal Conservatory of Bahía Blanca.

In 1976, at the age of ten, he made his stage debut as a musician and later worked with different artistic companies.

In 1996, integrating several artistic forms (music, theatre, dance, acrobatics and photography), he began his work of experimentation which led to the show "El Varieté", with which he began as a director.

Between 1997 and 1998, he undertook an artistic and anthropological journey to the European, African, Asian and American continents, following which he created the "Tango Teatro", an experimental research project whose objective is to create a new form of performance, using the tango dance as an expressive physical training, and music as a source of inspiration for the stage creation.

In 1999, during the "10th International Group Theatre Meetings" held in Humahuaca (Argentina), chaired by Eugenio Barba, he met the company "Teatro dei Naviganti" from Messina (Italy) with whom he initiated an artistic exchange to present various shows from 2000.

In 2003, he moved to Italy, created the show "Tango Migrante" and began his collaboration with Giorgia Marchiori by forming the duo "Los Guardiola".

GIORGIA MARCHIORI 

Giorgia Marchiori is a dancer, choreographer, actress and graduate in Philosophy.

Born in Rome, she began classical dance at the age of 4. She continued her studies of jazz dance at the Balletto di Roma and of Argentinean tango in Buenos Aires with the greatest masters. In parallel to her mime activity, she made her stage debut in 2003 with Goldoni's La Locandiera in the role of Mirandolina.

After her studies in Philosophy at the University La Sapienza of Rome with a thesis on the relationship between the individual and the species in Aristotle's Categories, in 2003 she began her artistic collaboration with Marcelo Guardiola, to form the duo Los Guardiola, whose originality consists in telling stories without words that mix mime and dance. 

Apart from her collaboration with Teatro Potlach in the shows Felliniana and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, from 2003 onwards her career continues to develop under the name Los Guardiola, as a choreographer and performer in the following shows: Death and the Maiden, Pasolini's Theorem, L'italiana del Tango, Borges and Tango, Once Upon a Time in Tango, Recital CanTango, Tango Querido!, Andersen's Tales, Fêtes Galantes, Tango Secret, La Comédie du Tango and Ephemera.

LOS GUARDIOLA 

In 2004, in Buenos Aires, they received the honorary diploma "Nueva Generacion" for their work as tango dancers. For their specific and original use of tango in theatre, they were invited in 2011 to Denmark, to the VIII Holstebro Festuge, organised by the Odin Teatret and directed by Eugenio Barba. In 2016, the National Tango Academy of the Argentine Republic granted them institutional sponsorship "as artists who spread the culture of Argentine tango through dance, mime and tango lyrics". 

Authors and performers of all their shows, in 2016 they premiered their latest creation, "Los Guardiola - The Comedy of Tango", in the famous Maipo theatre in Buenos Aires. 

At the same time, Marcelo Guardiola and Giorgia Marchiori are the creators and performers of the choreographies for "Recital CanTango", a show by the famous tenor Fabio Armiliato on the links between opera and tango, and "Tango Secret", a new original creation under the artistic direction of flutist Luis Rigou. 

THEY HAVE CARRIED THEIR WORDLESS ART THROUGHOUT THE WORLD: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland.