An American Tango: Behind the Scenes

A behind the scenes record of the making of Santa Barbara's State Street Ballet production of New York Choreographer William Soleau's exciting Ballet about Championship Ballroom Dancers Veloz & Yolanda. They specialized in Latin Ballroon and were among the highest paid acts in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Just beautiful !!!

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Oh wow !! Reminds me of the old days.

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I should add that this is the first and only ballet that's dancing part ever began with three street gangsters doing a double saut de Basque, but if others know differently, kindly correct me.

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Veloz and Yolanda's eerie, deathless ghosts were summoned from the vasty deeps to haunt this sui generis production at every step of the way. 'Twas spooky as hell. 'twas beyond terrene. And, alas, It broke my heart every day to behold it and shall never fail to break my heart ...aye, unto the very eons as the ancients would have put it... Unto those remote eons! Veloz and Yolanda, consequently, are destined NEVER TO DIE and, parenthetically, they were -- nay they ARE -- as Sophocles would have put it 2500 years ago "Αθανατοσ" , or transliterating ancient Greek into modern English characters "Athanatos"... meaning entirely and defiantly beyond that false, frail yet fearsomely bluffing mirage called death. Or I also take the liberty of quoting the mighty H.P. LOVECRAFT, "It is not dead that can eternal lie, and in strange eons even death may die."