Please be invited to participate in Denver's 3rd Annnual Memorial Day tango festival in May.
Early-bird pricing is in effect throughout March. You may pay by check or with a credit card on-line. This will be a wild, fun weekend...Tango 'till you drop! Special instructors this year include the Tango Mujer dance company, and Julio Balmaceda & Corina de la Rosa. Design your own festival by choosing either Tango Mujer or Julio & Corina. "Milonga-Only" passes are also available. The Focus is still on Dancing & Parties Previous events have been non-stop parties. Again this year, we'll have 5 milongas and over 30 hours of dancing from Friday afternoon to the wee hours of Monday morning. Here is the schedule May 21 - 26, 2003: - Pre-Wknd workshops: Wednesday & Thursday. - Weekend workshops: Saturday & Sunday Afternoons. - Friday Afternoon: Welcome Milonga at Hotel. - Friday Evening: Dance Performance with Tango Mujer - Friday Night: Mercury Milonga with the live music of Extasis. Performance by Julio & Corina. - Saturday Evening: Tango Dinner, Concert with Extasis, followed by a DJ milonga. - Sunday Evening: Tango Picnic & Outdoor Milonga at Cheesman Park Pavilion by Tango Colorado. - Sunday Night: Hardcore milonga...Tango until dawn with rotating DJs. More information regarding the Denver Memorial Day Tango Festival is now online at http://www.tango.org/dance/MemDay2003.html Flyers are now printed, and there is a download PDF flyer at: http://www.tango.org/dance/pdf/memdayweb.pdf As some individual items are subject to change (times, details, locations). Please be sure to print out a final flyer late in May to be sure you have the latest information. Instructors, Musicians & DJs: - Tango Mujer: Fabienne Bongard, Angelika Fischer, Rebecca Shulman, Valeria Solomonoff & Brigitta Winkler - Julio Balmaceda & Corina de la Rosa: Buenos Aires - Extasis, Tango Quartet: Evan Orman on Bandoneon - DJ Robin Thomas: New York City - DJ Robert Hauk: Portland, Oregon. - DJ Dan Boccia: Anchorage, Alaska. - DJ Ramu Pyreddy: Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sponsors: - La Eterna Milonga (Tom Stermitz) Produces milongas, classes and workshops in the Denver area: www.tango.org - Tangoneando (Nina Pesochinsky) Teaches classes, performs tango & produces workshops in the Denver area. - The Mercury Café (Marilyn Megenity) Hosts the Friday night milonga in Denver, in an authentic tango atmosphere. - Tango Colorado Sponsors the Sunday afternoon picnic and Milonga under the Stars. -- Tom Stermitz http://www.tango.org/ [email protected] 303-388-2560
