Tango - contact, that is how an Argentine Javier Cura calls his language of dance.
Together with Leilani Weis he created a performance where, through this language, they try to „speak“ about that which is usually hidden in the relationship between a woman and a man. About the illusion, an obsessive desire, vanity and frustration from the inability to overcome one´s own barriers to meet the other. The memories refuse to just disappear into the forgotten. They draw us into their hidden, mysterious corners. Connecting the elements of contact improvisation and physical theatre they tell the story of a memory which refuses to fall into oblivion. The genes of Latin-American culture in a chamber evening.

Concept, direction, choreography, musical dramaturgy Javier Cura and Leilani Weis Light design Javier Cura
Performing Leilani Weis, Javier Cura

 With an unusual melancholy and pain, Javier Cura and Leilani Weis examine the bonds in a couple as a relation of opposites. Tirelessly they search for their unity, without ever reaching.
Marcelo Repardo, La Capital, Argentina

…the spirit of tango in all its senses: the melancholy of love occupies all our present…
Marcelo Repardo, La Capital, Argentina

   
Javier Cura is an interdisciplinary artist. He draws on his own experience with tango, kung-fu, contact improvisation, drama and visual arts. He created several art exhibitions of objects, sculptures and installations. He has performed, directed and created drama shows in Argentina, Columbia, USA, Italy and Indonesia. He has been teaching drama, physical theatre and contact improvisation in England, Italy, France, Germany and Argentina. He is a regular guest at the International Contact Improvisation Festivals in Orvieto (Italy) and Freiburg (Germany). He currently directs the physical theatre group „Teatro Terra di Nessuno“ in Italy. For his performance „Dwelling a Human Being“ he was awarded the Buenos Aires Young Art Biannual Prize and for „Story with no Time“ Coca Cola Prize for the Arts.
Leilani Weis (Chile) experiments namely with the ability of tango and contact improvisation to communicate at public spaces. She has taught contact improvisation at the Fine Arts Schools in San Miguel Allende (Mexico), to the Narciso Medina Company, at National Arts School of Cuba in La Habana, and at international festivals in Freiburg and Orvieto. She collaborates with the University for Motory Science in Rome. She was one of the founders of the experimental group La Orden de los Suspiros (Mexico). She is the co-founder and co-director of Central de Movimiento Company. At present, she focuses on a research of the forms of street performance in Europe.