Tango Your Life on May 12, 2011

Hello Kace,
Thanks a lot. Please forward this message to your friends. Thanks. Chan

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Hello friends,

My name is Chan Park from Buenos Aires. I would like to introduce a documentary film about tango. It's titled "Tango Your Life," which tells my discovery of tango as culture, music, dance, friendship, love, and daily living in Buenos Aires. You can watch its trailer at the following location:
http://www.youtube.com/watch…

Before moving to Buenos Aires three years ago, I traveled at least 22 countries/68 cities to teach tango. Then I discovered something about tango that you can only experience in Buenos Aires. For example, the dancers in BA are more focused on feelings, connection, walking, and music than on steps or techniques.
In the film, I tried to capture this kind of tango, full of personal and intimate feelings, through conversations with my tango friends in Buenos Aires. I am certain that in the film you will be able to feel their passion and their love for tango by listening to them and watching them dance.

The project started around January 2010, and now it is in the post-production phase. I have captured hours and hours of interviews and shootings of milonga scenes as well as exhibition dances. I plan to finish the film for release by this fall.

As writer, director, producer, and editor of the film, I’d like to ask for your support through the following methods:

1. Spreading the message
Please forward this email to your friends who might be interested in the TangoZen project and/or in the documentary film.

2. Linking to social networks
Please link the trailer to your social networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch…

3. Financial donation
Please visit the site below and show your support with a financial donation and take advantage of rewards including books, online viewing of the film, download of the film, and even an opportunity to be an executive producer or an associate producer of the movie.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/244276548/tango-your-life

For more information about the documentary, please visit the official web of the film at http://www.TangoYourLife.com

Thank you and I look forward to presenting the final film to you soon.

Chan Park
Tango Zen House
tangozen@hotmail.com
http://www.TangoZen.com
http://www.TangoYourLife.com
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Tango Your Life, directed by Chan Park

Tango Your Life is a documentary film that tells intimate stories of tango as culture, music, dance, friendship, love, and daily living in Buenos Aires.

In much of the popular imagination, tango is seen as a dance involving complex steps performed by dancers whose intensity swirls around them as they enact visions of dark passion. But this conception of tango, popularized by the many tango shows that were exported starting in the 1980s, fails to capture the intimate, enduring dance that has sustained and inspired generations of dancers: the social tango danced in Buenos Aires. It is the story of this tango, the tango of embrace, communication and human connection that Director Chan Park aims to tell.

For the past three years, Park has submerged himself in the traditional tango culture of Buenos Aires, dancing almost every day and interviewing many of the participants in the traditional tango scene there in an attempt to understand what inspires people about this dance which is uniquely part of the culture of Buenos Aires, while also enriching lives of people around the world. Different than tango danced to impress people with the intricacy of movement, the social tango in Buenos Aires is life danced on the floor – intimate, complicated and personal.

Through the stories told by dancers who have been dancing as many as 70 years as well the impressions of those who have come to Buenos Aires to experience the dance in its native country, the experience of tango is shown to be one of danced emotion -- inspired by music and shared between partners connected through embrace. In intimate and emotional conversations with the director, people explain that tango, transcending social crises and personal conflict, provides them with a safe haven where they can transform to be completely present, letting go of ego, enjoying calmness in body and mind, expressing their passion, sharing their emotions with trustful dance partners in a respectful manner, and accumulating satisfying moments, while dancing.

Bio:
Director Chan Park is a writer, documentary film director, tango dance instructor, meditation coach with expertise in many fields including university training in science and engineering. He also has background in music, fine art, mind/body medicine, martial arts, and Oriental philosophy, all of which he has combined to create a unique yet traditionally related style of teaching method such as TangoZen. For years he has offered classes and workshops of tango in 22 countries (68 cities).  He now lives and teaches in Buenos Aires, Argentina.