3rd Annual Memorial Day Tangofest Denver, Colorado, May 21 - 27, 2003
Special instructors this year include Tango Mujer and Julio Balmaceda & Corina de la Rosa. Full Festival pass is only $179 for 5 milongas, 2 days of workshops, a tango dinner, concert and performance by Tango Mujer. Milonga-only passes also available as low as $59. * Early enrollment leads us to estimate attendance of around 200. * Early bird pricing is still in effect through the end of April. * Airfares at www.frontierairlines.com or www.ual.com Questions? More info? Contact: Email Tom Stermitz: [email protected] Website & Payments: http://www.tango.org/dance/MemDay2003.html Printable pdf flyer: http://www.tango.org/dance/pdf/memdayweb.pdf 3rd Annual Denver Memorial Day Tangofest Special instructors this year include the Tango Mujer dance company, and Julio Balmaceda & Corina de la Rosa teaching tango classes at the Adv-Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels. Design your own festival: (1) Choose either Weekend or Pre-Weekend Festival. (You may add additional workshops for $25 each day.) (2) Choose either Tango Mujer or Julio & Corina. (Julio & Corina workshops are reserved & paid through Nina Pesochinsky, [email protected]. You STILL need to register and buy one of the "Milonga-only" passes.) The Focus is still on Dancing & Parties Previous events have been non-stop parties. Again this year, we'll have over 30 hours of dancing from Friday afternoon to the wee hours of Monday morning. This is a tango festival BY dancers FOR dancers. Intermediates are Welcome This is a friendly crowd.Workshops will be at Adv-Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. The Friday night dance at the Mercury Cafe will be "Buenos-Aires Crowded"; the other dances will require good floor-craft, but won't be so crowded. Previous events have been non-stop parties. Again this year, we'll have over 30 hours of dancing from Friday afternoon to the wee hours of Monday morning. The Denver Tangofest Features: - Pre-Weekend workshops: Wednesday & Thursday. - Weekend workshops: Saturday & Sunday. - Friday Afternoon: Welcome Milonga at Hotel. - Friday Evening: Dance Performance with Tango Mujer - Friday Night: Mercury Milonga with the live music of Denver's own tango quartet Extasis. - 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. 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 with Evan Orman on Bandoneon - Robin Thomas: New York City - Robert Hauk: Portland, Oregon. - Dan Boccia: Anchorage, Alaska. - Ramu Pyreddy: Ann Arbor, Michigan Lodging & Events: Denver Doubletree Hotel (Stapleton/Quebec St) We have reserved plenty of rooms at the Denver Doubletree on Quebec St: 303-321-3333. The Doubletree costs only $69/night. Free airport shuttle & free parking. Use reservation code words: "Tango Fest". -- Tom Stermitz http://www.tango.org/ [email protected] 303-388-2560
