TANGO FESTIVAL ALBUQUERQUE
THE 8th ANNUAL DENVER MILONGUERO TANGO FESTIVAL
Moves to ALBUQUERQUE this year, August 28 — September 1, 2008!
A Tango festival "By Dancers; For Dancers" features non-stop parties for all tango dancers who love the social style of tango popular in the milongas of Buenos Aires: close, subtle & romantic. The milongas will feature some of the top DJs in the country. The teachers are known as community builders and entertainers. Attendance will be around 450-500, so Buenos Aires style floorcraft will be essential. The main venue will be the Albuquerque Hilton, with other venues for an outdoor milonga & Friday night — keep watching for exciting details as the date draws near.
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Visit Festival website for updates & to register: laeternamilonga.com
Festival Organizer
Tom Stermitz | La Eterna Milonga
LEM, LLC
2525 Birch St
Denver, CO 80207
Stermitz@Tango.org
Download Tango Festival Albuquerque Flier (PDF)
Due to the Democratic National Convention, The 8th Annual Denver Tango Festival has been moved to Albuquerque. The friendly community of tango dancers in Albuquerque are enthusiastically preparing a hot welcome for a Tango Festival with a Southwestern Flavor. This festival features an outdoor Tango Milonga on the Plaza with a Southwestern Buffet Dinner.
In addition to spectacular scenery, New Mexico features a vibrant tango community and great dancers, with numerous places of interest in and near Albuquerque, Santa Fe & Taos for great side trips, hiking, camping,sightseeing, cultural events and more. Links to cultural & recreational site info.
HOTEL REGISTRATION
Albuquerque Hilton, 1901 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
(505) 884-2500
Tango rate: $99/night
AIRLINES
Try Southwest, Frontier, and United Airlines.
LOTS OF GOOD DANCERS
This is another tango festival "By Dancers; For Dancers". Come join the great dancers of New Mexico, and all your friends from past festivals. As always, the dance floors will be set up for good social dancing: tables surrounding the floor, great DJs, good floor-craft. Each year the dancing just gets better. We will NOT have beginner classes, but we will offer an Intermediate track. Intermediate assumes you have basic navigation skills and simple tango vocabulary, like ochos and ocho cortados.
Who's coming?
Check out the new mapping feature that shows all the attendees from the Memorial Day Tango Festival in Denver: laeternamilonga.com/mem08_map.html
SEVEN MILONGAS
The Albuquerque Tango Festival features 7 milongas from Thursday through Monday at dawn. We hire some of the best DJs from across the US. Your festival pass includes the glorious Outdoor Milonga and Southwestern Buffet at the National Hispanic Center's Plaza Mayor.
The festival DJs will use a tanda and cortina format, and the dance floor is set up for social dancing: rectangular with tables and seating off the floor. Dancers know the cabeceo, or eye game; catch her eye from five feet or across the crowded room. The dance floors have two or three lanes set up for good flow and navigation.
THURSDAY EARLY ARRIVAL CLASSES
Christopher Nassoupoulos will present the Thursday early arrival classes.
PRICING
Early purchase pricing is in affect through the end of June. See website for full details, but note that we also offer Saturday-arrival discounts if you can't get in on Friday. Gold Pass $145. Milongas Only Pass $70. Hotel $99/night.
Half-price student workstudy pass for full time students who sign up to help at the desk for a few hours. Many hands make light work, so this is not a huge burden.
SUNDAY REST & RELAXATION
Note that Sunday classes start an hour later to give you more rest.
FEATURED INSTRUCTORS
Christopher Nassoupoulos & Caroline Peattie, San Francisco
Robin Thomas, New York, NY & Marika Landry, Montreal, QU
Yelena Sinelnikova & Avik Basu, Ann Arbor, MI
FEATURED DJS
Robin Thomas, New York, NY
Vijay Namasivayam, San Francisco, CA
Avik Basu, Ann Arbor, MI
Paul Akmajian, Albuquerque, NM
Tom Stermitz, Denver, CO
Fabulous TANGO FESTIVAL ALBUQUERQUE T-shirts available now!
Help promote the festival and look cool doing it!
Men's and women's styles available in a full range of sizes.
Light weight, pre-shrunk, all-cotton black shirts with a small logo on front & large graphic on back.
Designed by Paul Akmajian.
Only $10 !
They will be for sale this at the Tango Festival, August 28 - Seeptember 1,
or you can purchase them at upcoming TCA events in Albuquerque.
Cash or checks welcome, made out to Tango Club of Albuquerque.