Antonio Todaro

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Antonio Todaro

Antonio Todaro (born September 12, 1929 ; died January 28, 1994 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine dance teacher .

Antonio Todaro is considered an outstanding master and teacher of Tango Argentino . In the 1980s he set the style for a whole generation of young, professional tango dancers such as Miguel Angel Zotto, Milena Plebs and others. Many tango dancers known today went through his school.

Life

Antonio Todaro was born in Buenos Aires in the Mataderos neighborhood. In 1949 he won a dance competition at Club Marplatense in Lanús and then chose a dancer and dance teacher for his profession. Nevertheless, he was dependent on his profession as a bricklayer for many years. He formed a well-remembered dance couple with his daughter Inés.

Although he constantly invented innovative, stage-suitable step material for his students, he did not appear as a stage dancer himself: His audience was that of the "milonga" called dance clubs and cabarets, in which he gave shows with friends. He worked out the woman's part in a very creative way and thus helped her to achieve dance equality.

At a very young age, Todaro taught at Lita and José Mendez's school. He never stopped organizing training sessions in different salons, not even during the years of greatest decline in the 60s and 70s, when tango had practically shrunk to a marginal cult. In the mid-80s he taught a. a. Miguel Zotto and Milena Plebs, who soon became the stars of the Broadway show "Tango Argentino", the show that contributed to the new popularity of Argentine tango worldwide.

In 1988 he was invited to Amsterdam and Berlin for the first time as a teacher. In this way, he significantly supported the renewed interest in tango dance in Europe. From now until shortly before his death he regularly went on extensive workshop tours and became an important teacher of the local tango scene. In Berlin he took over the patronage of the professional teaching method "Tango vom Rio de la Plata®" developed by Juan D. Lange and himself.

Web links

Literature at google-books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c [1] Article by Irene Amuchástegui, from: »Tango XXI«, Marzo 1994
  2. ↑ a b c Gabriela Hanna: Antonio Todaro in: Así bailaban el Tango, Metro Verlag Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-928282-04-2
  3. ↑ [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Marie-Paule Renaud: Antonio Todaro as teacher and person :: "... all great dancers train with him, for example Pilar Alvarez y Claudio Hoffmann, Pablo Veron y Carolina Yotti, Damián Esell y Nancy Louzan, Gabriel Angio y Natalia Games, Osvaldo Zoto y Lorena, Carlos Copello y Alicia Monti, as well as Guillermina Quiroga, Vanina Bilous y Roberto Herrera, Gustavo Russo y Alejandra Mantiñan. Carlos e Ines Borguez, Aurora (Lubiz) y Jorge Firpo and many more ... "@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hugo-diaz.com  
  4. ↑ a b [3] Ana María Navés: Antonio Todaro. Un Maestro, Un Estilo. in: Revista Punto Tango 58, August 3, 2011, pages 52–54
  5. ^ [4] Film: Antonio Todaro with daughter Inés
  6. ↑ [5] further film documents
  7. ^ A b Sergio Pujol: Historia del Baile, EMECÉ Ed. SA, Bs. Aires 1999, ISBN 950-04-2064-3 , p. 197: Antonio Todaro was one of the inventors of the Tango Fantasía, in which the woman performs figures in the air and makes spectacular flights. "As for figures and lessons, he was the best ”, summarizes Francisco Santapá. (This opinion was shared by a dancer from another generation: Miguel Angel Zotto.)
  8. ^ Gabriela Hanna: Antonio Todaro s. o. I worked for a year and a half in La Armonía, on Calle Corrientes ... in El Olmo, on Plaza Once, in La Munich, Calle Boedo and San Juan and also in the city of Rosario. Always as a dancer ... As a dancer, I went to Rosario every year. We did fifteen days, Virulazo, Calisay and me.
  9. ↑ Sergio Pujol, s. o. pg. 189: For dancers who prefer record music to life orchestras, there are gatherings in the Amanecer, Sin Rumbo, Social Rivadavia clubs or the famous Atlanta, bastion of milongueros (dancers) and the nucleus of the new generations (with a little luck you can there, at the beginning of the 50s, see Virulazo, Copes or the great Todaro).
  10. ↑ Nicole Nau Klapwijk: Tango dimensions fort Verlag GmbH 2001, ISBN 3-924592-65-9
  11. ^ [6] Film: Antonio with Martine, Amsterdam 1988
  12. ↑ [7] Biography Brigitta Winkler
  13. ^ [8] Portrait of the teacher Juan D. Lange Berlin
  14. ^ [9] Irmel Weber Berlin
  15. ↑ [10]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Teacher portrait Klaus Wendel Dortmund@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / tango-sencillo.de  
  16. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Teacher portrait Fabiana Jarma Frankfurt  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tangotours.de
  17. ^ [11] Ingrid Saalfeld Hamburg
  18. ^ [12] Teacher portrait Estudio Latinoamerica Kiel
  19. ^ [13] biography Ralf Sartori Munich
  20. ^ [14] Portrait of Ute Frühwirth Stuttgart, a teacher
  21. ^ [15] Estudio Sudamérica, Berlin: training document
  22. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tanzerei Fürth: Tango from the Rio de la Plata  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tanzerei.de
personal data
SURNAME Todaro, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian dance teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1929
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1994
Place of death Buenos Aires

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