Before its presentation along with Paloma Herrera at the Luna Park, the ballet of Teatro Colón, with the artistic direction of Olga Ferri, will offer two performances at Teatro Coliseo of "Les Sylphides", the pas-des-deux from "Don Quixote", and Maurice Ravel´s "Bolero". They will be accompanied by Teatro Colón´s Orchestra, directed by Mario Benzecry.

The first part will be dedicated to Les Sylphides, with choreography by Michael Fokin, on the original pieces for piano by Frederic Chopin. In this "romantic dream", conceived by Fokin in 1908, the poet is surrounded by the immaterial creatures, the "Sylphides". The main roles in this part will be performed by Maricel De Mitri, Juan Pablo Ledo ( Pas-de-deux), Silvina Perillo (waltz), Karina Olmedo (Mazurca, woman), Juan Pablo Ledo (Mazurka, man), Maricel De Mitra (Prelude), Maria Eugenia Padilla, Silvina Vaccarelli (Corifeas).

The second part will consist of two pas-de-deux: the one from Spartakus, with choreography by Atilio Labis and music by Aram Khachaturian, performed by Karina Olmedo and Vagran Ambartsoumian; and the one from Don Quixote, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Ludwig Minkus, performed by Gabriela Alberti and Juan Pablo Ledo.

The performance will end with "Bolero", by Maurice Ravel, with choreography by José Zartmann, with its roots on the Flemish and Spanish gypsies' dances. This version was presented at the Coreographyc Workshop of Teatro Colón in 1989 and incorparated into the ballet's repertoire in 1992. The performers will be Vagran Ambartsoumian, Julián Galván, Graciela Berttoti and Analía Sosa Guerrero.

Dates:
Saturday 23rd, 8.30 pm
Sunday 24th, 5 pm
Location: Teatro Coliseo. Marcelo T. de Alvear 1125
Tickets: from AR$ 16 to AR$ 50, on sale at Teatro Colón ticket office, Tucumán 1171, from 9 am to 5 pm. On the day of the performances the remaining tickets will be on sale at Teatro Coliseo´s tickett office, Marcelo T. de Alvear 1125, from 2 pm

On Tuesday, August 26th, Ciudad Cultural Konex presents the tenth edition of Pecha Kucha Night, a “showcasing + networking” event created in Japan in 2003 by architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, 12-15 creators from different disciplines have 6 minutes and 40 seconds each to show an idea or project, through 20 images screened for 20 seconds.


The participating artists confirmed for this edition are:

Marta Minujín (art)
Help Argentina (ONG)
Marcos Shayo (inventions)
Kioskerman (comics)
Julián de Dios (editorial)
SudacaPhotos (phootogrpahy)
Espacio Cabina (design)
Gabriel Vommaro (language)
Revista UR (architecture)
Alejandro Gangui (cosmos)
MySpace (internet)
Pablo Del Campo (advertising)

Once the presentations are finished, the guests gather to interchange their opinions, and the public is invited to enjoy some music and conversation.

“Pecha kucha” (which means chit-chat in Japanese), is presented in several cities around the world: Amsterdam, Atlanta, Auckland, Austin, Bangladore, Bangkok , Beijing, Belfast, Berlin, Bern, Bogotá , Budapest, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen, Costa Rica, Delhi, Dublin , Frankfurt, Glasgow, Gothenberg, Groningen, Hamburg, Harvard, Helsinki, Hobart, Lagos, Linz, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manchester, Melbourne, Mexico city, Miami, New York, Newcastle, Oslo, Perth, Portland, Porto Alegre, Prague, Riga, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Santiago, Seattle, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Udine, Vienna, Washington DC.

Date: Tuesday, August 26th, 2008. 8 PM
Location: Ciudad Cultural Konex. Sarmiento 3131. Buenos Aires.
Tickets: AR$ 20. Ticketek Argentina or Ciudad Cultural Konex ticket office.
More information: www.pechakucha.com.ar

The most important event for Argentine fashion, BAFWeek brings together the most established brands in the fashion world and the independent designers, to launch their spring-summer 200/2009 collections.

BAFWeek will feature 3 runways for the daily fashion shows, and around 40 showrooms where designers will showcase their creations in an exclusive space.
This new edition will be inspired in the Argentine natural resources, with cotton as the main protagonist.
The designers and brands who will be presenting their collections are, among others: Rapsodia, Jazmín Chebar, Cook, Jet, Vicki Otero, Ricky Sarkany, Flavia Martini, Posse, Laurencio Adot, María Cher, Prüne, Kostüme, Levi´s, Wanama, Cora Groppo, Juana de Arco, Paula Cahen d´Anvers, Ona Sáez, S-Mode and Cómo quieres que te quiera, and the introduction of two new joung designers from University of Buenos Aires.

Dates: August 20th to 23rd, 2008
Location: La Rural Exhibition Center, Pabellón Azul. Av. Sarmiento 2704
Entry fee: AR $ 20. Tickets on sale at the venue 2 pm to 10 pm

BAFWeek official website

Galerias Pacifico is one of the most luxurious constructions in Buenos Aires. It occupies the square block limited by Florida, Viamonte, and San Martin Streets, and Cordoba Avenue.

In 1889, Francisco Seeber and Emilio Bunge decided to create "Au Bon Marché Argentino Grand Shops", similar to the Bon Marche stores in Paris. Architects Emilio Agrelo and Roland Le Vacher designed the building, inspired by the Vittorio Emmanuelle II galleries in Milan, as a covered passage with commercial shops. The building consisted of four identical sections, divided by two crossed central passages. But financial problems and the economic crisis of 1890 and 1908 made it necessary to sell parts of the building, and the stores were never opened.

On December 1896, the galleries turned into the first head office of the National Museum of Fine Arts; in 1908, the Ferrocarril Buenos Aires al Pacífico (railway administration) acquired part of the building for its offices, and it started to be known as "Edificio Pacífico" (Pacífico Building).

In the 1940's, Architects Jorge Aslan and Héctor Ezcurra redesigned the building. The lower level was turned into a commercial sector, separated from the office sector, and the passages were roofed.

The central dome, with 450 square meters, was embellished with painted murals by some of the most outstanding artists of that moment: Lino Eneas Spilimbergo, Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Manuel Colmeiro, and Demetrio Urruchúa. The twelve painted panels constitute one of the most important mural groups in Buenos Aires, especially the fresco by Antonio Berni.
After years of neglect, the building was declared as a National Historical Monument in 1989, and a year later a concession was granted to a private group to build a shopping center. The galleries were redesigned and reopened in 1990. Four murals by artists Rómulo Macció, Josefina Robirosa, Guillermo Roux, and Carlos Alonso were added.