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Robert Rodriguez’s friend Quentin Tarantino, in 1992,
encouraged him to make a Mexican Trilogy in the style
of the Spaghetti Westerns, like “A Fist full of Dollars”,
“A Few More Dollars” and “The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly” as his debut as writer and director. Starting with
the same premise of mistaken identity about a stranger
that drifts into town, but this time it is a Marachi musician
who is thought to have broken out of jail and is out to
kill the local gang boss who controls the town. Robert
only had $7,000* to make the movie, intended for the
Mexican home video market, but Columbia Pictures
executives liked the film so much that they bought the
American distribution rights and the funding allowed
him to finish the trilogy, Desperado (1995) and Once
Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) using Antonio Banderas
and Johnny Depp for the sequels. Los Lobos’s Chicano
rock and traditional Ranchera music for the film,won
the 1995 Best Pop Instrumental award.
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Mariachi is a folk style called “Son Jaliscience” from
the center west of Mexico using only string instruments
by musicians dressed in the white pants and shirts of
peasant farmers for festivals and weddings. After the
Mexican Revolution, many haciendas had to let their
workers go, including the mariachis. In the early 19th
century, they migrated from rural areas into cities such
as Guadalajara and Mexico City, where they had to adapt
and played many different forms of music such as polkas
and waltzes. The Mexican government was looking to
promote cultural touristism and picked them as icons
of Mexico. The mariachi musicians then added trumpets
and the use of charro (Mexican cowboy or rancher rodeo
outfits), typically in black with silver “botonadura” (the
metal wear that is stitched on the outfit) or in fine white
embroidery. Mariachis took on national prominence
when promoted at presidential inaugurations and on the
radio in the 1920s and as heros in Mexican Western
films. American TV and Hollywood movies picked up
on the theme for a Marachi dressed Mexican cowboy
named The Cisco Kid and his side kick Pancho in the
50 and 60s. They were parodied in the 3 Amegios, a
take off movie of the Magnificent 7, with a town who’s
only skill advantage was to sew marachi costumes. They
were used as a band for victory celebrations in the Mars
Attack and Rango movies. Spaghetti westerns often
used Texas and Mexican Towns as the locale for many
of their stories and that is the flavour we can enjoy at
the 30-Up Club’s Spaghetti Western Dance. Peter Lee
President
Marjorie White
Vice President
John Primeau
Secretary
Michelle Strom
Treasurer
Eva Liu
Vice Treasurer
Joanne Pritchard
Membership
Peter van Tol
Entertainment
Justin White
Social Host/Goodwill Steve Nelson
Web & Marketing
Tom Berend
Editor
Peter Lee
Standing Committee Members
Member 1-Year
Pat Sclocco
Member 2-Year
Ruth Dyson
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Traditional Mexican songs are well-known worldwide
to ballroom dancers, including the Mexican Belero,
Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me a Lot, a song written in 1940
by Mexican Consuelo Velázquez). Huapango, means
on top of the wood, alluding to a wooden platform on
which dancers can make zapateado dance steps to songs
that include “Cucurrucucú paloma” and “Malagueña”.
La Bamba is a Son Jarocho style turned into a rock
song, winning the 1988 MTV Video Music Award and
#1 in the U.S. and UK singles charts from the title track
of the 1987 film La Bamba. Other songs include:
Solamente una vez (English version “You Belong to
My Heart”), La Bikina (The Bikina), Cielito Lindo
(Beautiful Sweetheart), Somos Novios (We Are Lovers;
English version “It's Impossible”), El Rey (The King),
María Bonita (Pretty María), México Lindo y Querido
(Beautiful, Beloved Mexico), Pelea de gallos (La feria
de San Marcos), Enamorada (In Love). and the famous
La Cucaracha (The Cockroach), popularized during
the Mexican Revolution. Besides Son and Ranchera
and the other traditional musical styles there are new
elements of: Latin alternative. Mexican ska, Rock,
Cumbia and Pop influenes on contemporary Mexican
composers as well as the 33% of Americans who are
latino which makes for very Happy Dancing.
*Note: To save money he had water pistols as props and had filmed in Acuña,
Coahuila, located in Northeastern Mexico, using the real female warden and
the male guards of the local jail in the opening scene. Anyone especially critical
of the filming got a starring role to win them over. Lighting was by two 200
watt clip-on desk lamps for the 16 mm film. El Mariachi won multiple awards
which gave him backing for The Faculty, Sin City and other movies. Rango
was a 2011 critical and commercial success, and won the Academy Award for
Best Animated Feature with the voice of Johnny Depp.
Ref: Fashion: The Mexican Charro Suit | The Fumi Chronicles and wikipedia
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We really do have a creative team running this
Club. Joanne Pritchard suggested at the last
Board Meeting that we should use the Twelve
Days of Christmas as a theme to enliven our
December dances… so watch for details once
we’ve had a chance to work them out
At the next Board Meeting we will be making
our plans for 2015, so we aren’t just planning
for the Holidays. We welcome Eva Liu to the
Board, and will watch as Steve becomes
Social Host- swapping positions with Justin
who becomes Entertainment Director. As we
start a new Board Year, we know we have to
keep the Club’s competitive edge, and to keep
an awareness of needed change and creativity.
This is change not for the sake of it, but to
ensure that we provide the best possible
dancing environment for our Members.
As a result of a discussion at the last General
Meeting, I am asking our DJs to spread out the
more “social” dances through the course of our
dance nights. This will not increase the
number of “social” dances, but will stop them
being compacted during the dinner period – so
people can have a chance to eat AND dance a
Bachata! The mixture of dances, with general
direction from the Board, is at the discretion of
the DJ depending on his or her read of the
dancers on any given night, so we ask everyone to give a little if they don’t get quite the
mix they want.
Meanwhile, it is exciting to see many new
people around the Club, and to see the
welcome they receive from our Members
-including the acceptance of newer dancers.
Marjorie White
Spaghetti Western
Party November 21 & 22
Spaghetti Dance
Join us for the 30-up Club’s iconic, weird wonderful “Spaghetti
Westerns
Western Party!! Think: Tex-Mex/Hollywood, Italian Cinema
and iconic movies such as “A Fist full of Dollars”, “A Few
More Dollars” and “Desperado”. We’ll set the scene with
Frank’s desert backdrop, great Italian food, exquisite Italian
ballroom and Latin dance music and a few selections that
will feature inimitably danceable movie themes. Join the cast.
Put on your cowboy hat. Gussy yourself up (jeans allowed)
and Come play with us!!!
THE TWELVE DANCES OF CHRISTMAS…
We are adding some additional joy to the Holiday Season, by introducing the Twelve Dances
of Christmas – dances on Tuesdays, Fridays, and
Sundays prior to Christmas in December.
OTHER FESTIVITIES…
After Christmas, the Holidays continue, and we
will shortly be announcing our complete schedule from December 1st to January 4th, including
the dances run by Yuli Peng and Haida Wang.
WHILE WE THINK OF OTHERS…
We will also be announcing the details of a
FOOD DRIVE (as suggested by a Member at a
General Meeting). This will allow us to help
those who need a hand so that they and their
families can feel some joy as they struggle
through difficult times.
Christmas Dance
Saturday Dec. 13th
Members: $55
Non Members: $65
New Year’s Eve Dance
Wednesday Dec. 31st
Members: $70
Non Members: $80
Tickets will be on sale starting the weekend
right after Thanksgiving – just see
Justin White or Cathy Primeau
Esther and Leonard Goodman, as well as Agnes
Kavanaugh, and maybe others, are heading south
for the winter and we put aside our envy long
enough to wish them well and look forward to
their return!
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