Dear friends of Tango! We would be very excited if we could welcome you on our festival. All announced workshops will take place and there are still plenty of workshops you can choose from. Exceptionally there are plenty of special hotel offers in Berlin at the festival weekend.
This year the Berlin festival takes places on 5 days again with excellent artists. One highlight is the concert on June 1st by Stazomayor with the 2 legendary bandoneonists of the 40s; Luis Stazo and Alfredo Marcucci; and the famous singer Alberto Podesta who alread did sing in 1942 in the orchestra of Carlos di Sarli and with Miguel Carlo and Pedro Laurenz. Further invited orchestras are: Sexteto Milonguero, Quinteto Beltango with the Argentinian bandoneonist Carlos Buono, Otros Aires, and Las Bordonas. The opening Tangoball takes place in the restaurant Auster in the "Haus der Kulturen der Welt" (located in the park "Tiergarten" next to the river "Spree" with a huge terrasse). All further tangoballs await you in Astra Kulturhaus and Ballhaus Rixdorf. 8 dancer pairs present shows on the tangoballs of the festival and teach on 48 workshops. All workshops take place in Ballhaus Rixdorf. The dancers are: Moira Castellano y Gaston Torelli , Eugenia Parrilla y Pablo Inza, Céline Ruiz y Damián Rosenthal, Mercedes 'Mecha' Espinel y „El Flaco Dany“, Natalia Hills y Gabriel Misse, Maria Mondino y Ismael Ludman, Pedro Abregú y Katharina Sigel. There will also be the DJ highlight Felix Picherna for the opening ball on May 28th and on May 29th. He put on the records of Tango music for more than 50 years. Further DJs are James Bates (May 30th), Jens Dörr (May 31st) and Hagen Schröter (June 1st). Demian Gawianski gives a lecture in Ballhaus Rixdorf on Saturday, May 30th, at 13 hrs about the song "Malena". In the Tango Café at Ballhaus Rixdorf one may dance from 12 hrs, have some food, or simply take some time out for relaxing. The entry is free. There will be readings from 15 to 16 hrs on Tango subjects. On May 30th Rodrigo Martinez reads "8 Anekdoten", on May 31st Diego Rial "Alles begann mit dem Tango...", and on June 1st Marianno "Chamuyo canero, la mucama". In the Tango Café we will present the movie "Más Tango" on May 30th and June 1st. The International Tango Festival Berlin 2009 takes place under the auspices of the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, and of the general direccion for cultural affairs of the state chancellery of the Republic of Argentina. More infos on www.tangofestivalberlin.de or call +49.30.440 471 95 I'm looking forward to welcome you. Regards, Michael -- http://tangofestivalberlin.de/ 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 May | 01 June 2009
