Tuesday, July 7
2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
CAFÉ TANGO • The invention of tango, the amazing story of Charles Seguin by Odile Fillion
Price : FREE
From Monday 6 to Saturday 11 July, Café Tango, presented by Serge Davy and Solange Bazely, welcomes you to the meeting space of the Ombres Blanches Bookstore for passionate and exciting encounters around tango and its culture.
Take this opportunity to discover and purchase books about tango on site, including of course those written by the authors we have invited, all of whom will be more than happy to sign them for you.
Doors open at 2pm every day.
✦ "The invention of tango, the amazing story of Charles Seguin"
Here is a new version of the history of tango, far removed from the legend of a traditional folk dance.
Behind this alternative history stands a flamboyant character: Charles Seguin (1877-1930), a Franco-Argentine impresario and financier. Starting from nothing, he launched tango at the beginning of the last century as a major advertising project for Argentina. His numerous theatres and cabarets soon became a meeting place for actors and billionaires, courtesans and criminals, musicians and writers, senators and presidents, as he built a veritable entertainment empire and amassed companies and properties of all kinds in France and Argentina.
Odile Fillion's fascinating investigation, based on the unpublished archives of Charles Seguin, brings this amazing story back to life.
Tango, a pure invention, waiting to be discovered.
Odile Fillion
Odile Fillion is renowned in the tango world for her passion and expertise. Alongside her work in architecture with Jean Nouvel, she has been leading some of France's most famous milongas for twenty years. As a historian and filmmaker, her research and documentaries contribute to the transmission of the art of tango, which she discovered in Buenos Aires in the early 2000s.
Capitole Metro (line A)
