Leonardo Suarez Paz's PIAZZOLLA 100: “El Nuevo Tango”  - is a genre-redefining, multidisciplinary show infused with jazz, rock, modern dance, and visual art - a tango show for the new century!
Following a sold-out performance at the famed “Ballena Azul,” CCK in Buenos Aires, the multifaceted “virtuoso extraordinaire,” (Wynton Marsalis), Leonardo Suarez Paz, brings his genre-redefining, multidisciplinary performance to NYU Skirball, sharing his unique vision of the genre across a century of immigrant struggles and triumphs. Leonardo honors his mentor, Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine-born and New York raised composer by recreating Nuevo Tango as an evolving, daring, artistically complex, and emotionally moving art form. 

The international 16-member cast features Nuevo Tango Ensemble with soloists Leonardo Suarez Paz (violin, voice, dance), Patience Higgins (tenor sax), Nuevo Tango Ballet under the direction of Olga Suarez Paz, and includes a special visual art feature of works by Dedé Wolff and Lulú Michelli de Ferrer, the wives of Piazzolla and Ferrer, respectively, and rare footage of Piazzolla in New York. Taking place blocks away from where the revolutionary composer had grown up.

MAY 14 only @ NYU Skirball - TICKETS ON SALE HERE

This program is made possible with the support of NYSCA and our fiscal sponsor, NYFA. Developed and premiered with the support of the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy and our sponsors Sotheby's International Realty, and Reno Design.