The Contemporary Ballet of Teatro San Martin will conduct a tribute to the choreographer and teacher Ana Itelman, with a dance show that can be seen with free admission in the Central Hall Alfredo Alcón.

"Percale Suite" is the name of the presentation directed by Andrea Chinetti and co-directed by Miguel Angel Elias to take place on Friday 27, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 -from September 18- on the premises located on Avenida Corrientes 1530.

This show is a reworking 2×2 tangos, Ana Itelman debuted with his own group in 1971. The work is musically structured by a string of tangos, milongas, waltzes and rancheras interpreted, among others, by Mercedes Simone, Edmundo Rivero and Anibal Troilo, and linked by the River Plate candombe. The selection includes Morena, Bar "El Popular", Midnight, milonga Sentimental, white flies, Tortazos, Margot and Milonga del corralón.

Ana Itelman applied in this work a humorous look but cries of nostalgia and poetry about the characters of mythology porteña. At manera of entertainment, choreographer deployed in each section of the suite his deep knowledge of folk dances, joining them to contemporary forms.

Itelman was a prestigious choreographer born in Chile 1927, but very little was established in our country. Here it was formed at the National Conservatory of Music and was perfected in New York with Martha Graham, hanya Holm, Louis Horst and José Limón.

Again in Argentina, He formed the School of Contemporary Dance and 1955 premiered at the National Theater Cervantes "City our, Buenos Aires", show that first integrated tango, modern dance and poetry.

He directed the Department of Dance of Bard College in New York and attended the premiere of Hindemith Antigone. Amount, for the Ballet of the Teatro Colón, Stravinsky's Agon, Debussy's Jeux there Peri Dukas.

Ana Itelman had an intense and fruitful relationship with the Contemporary Ballet of Teatro San Martín, for which he created works like "The Overcoat", "The houses of Colomba", "Soldier's Tale", "Parallel to the horizon", "Percale Suite" and "And she visited". He died 16 September 1989.