Redefining Tango, uniting through art & culture
Groundbreaking music, dance & multidisciplinary tango
Redefining Tango, uniting through art & culture
Groundbreaking music, dance & multidisciplinary tango
21st CENTURY TANGO
Nuevo Tango Arts is rooted in 4 generations of unparalleled tango legacy, and a 20-year experience producing award-winning works which combine tango music, dance, visual art, cinema, poetry and influences from jazz, classical and contemporary genres. Today, our groundbreaking music, dance, multidisciplinary and theatrical productions are redefining the tango as a daring, complex, and evolving art form of the 21st century.
Our mission is to preserve the legacy and advance the evolution of tango and its relationship with jazz, classical, and world genres, while uniting people globally through art and culture.
Our vision pairs artistic excellence and innovation with tango's inherent capacity to connect people, promote freedom of expression, and enrich our collective cultural heritage.
Artistic Director, Leonardo Suarez-Paz "shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there." - Wynton Marsalis
100-YEAR LEGACY & BEYOND
Artistic Director Leonardo Suarez-Paz is a multiple Latin GRAMMY Award nominated artist who was mentored by the revolutionary composer Astor Piazzolla. Leonardo carries a 100-year family legacy in tango, beginning with the Afro-Argentine poet & 'payador' Gabino Ezeiza to Fernando Suarez Paz, who was instrumental in creating the nuevo tango alongside Piazzolla.
Leonardo's career took him across international experiences which include Orchestra Estable del Teatro Colòn in Buenos Aires to playing as a soloist with Mariano Mores, Horacio Salgan, Atilio Stampone, Osvaldo Berlingieri, in Broadway's Forever Tango and Tango Argentino to dancing and playing in Tangox2 and Perfumes de Tango. He has collaborated with the New York City Opera, Placido Domingo, Ruben Blades, Carlos Franzetti, Patience Higgins, Jim Hall, Steve Kuhn, Savion Glover and Wynton Marsalis. Leonardo combines his vast experience as a violin soloist, vocalist, choreographer and composer across multiple genres to lead Nuevo Tango Arts to the forefront of 21st century tango.
photo: Leonardo Suarez-Paz & Astor Piazzolla
Virtuoso extraordinaire ... Leonardo shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there
WYNTON MARSALIS, Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Fernando Suarez Paz played with delicious clarity and passion
NY TIMES
Superb
GRAMOPHONE
Personifies and embodies the authentic spirit of Tango
LARAS, Latin GRAMMY-Awards Live
a serious pitch to the black-tie segment
- LA TIMES
