TANGO MAYA/AZTECA, MEXICO, Feb. 28-March 8, 2003
REGISTER BY DECEMBER 20TH, PLEASE!
TEACHERS AND WORKSHOP LEADERS: EL INDIO AND MARIANA.
El Indio and Mariana are renowned for their excellent instruction in
milonguero style tango (close embrace), milonga, and rythmic creativity and
precision.
Your trip would begin in San Miguel de Allende, for this first "mini"
tango festival. San Miguel will fulfill any lust for retail therapy, and
quench your overworked tango muscles in the four hot underground springs
around town. In between tango classes and a milonga at a gorgeous colonial
restaurant, we will learn more about Mexican symbolism and culture through a
local professional lecturer and guide.
At a local theater, we will do an evening performance headed by El Indio
and Mariana, and Daniel Diaz (bandoneon musician) and the local tango
orchestra of San Miguel. the history of tango will be shown with music,
dance, instruments, and a singer.
We will have special separate workshops for details for men and women, levels
1-3 classes, milongas, a workshop in Tantric tango ("Tango Sutra"), and a
ranch party.
On to Oaxaca (city) by plane through Mexico City, where we will stay at a
beautiful hotel near the central markets, churches, shops, and museum. Oaxaca
is a land at once mountainous, but then dropping to it's famous seacoast to
the West.
A mix of Mayan descendants, the Mixtec and Zapotec natives still speak their
own languages above Spanish, and their arts, pottery, cooking, and weavings
are famous everywhere. Tango classes will be set in a large wooden floored
room at "El Encuentro," a workshop center 15 minutes from our hotel.
We'll have a cooking class in Oaxacan specialties, and a walking tour of some
of the MANY sights in Oaxaca.
Return on Friday to Mexico City for the local milonga with some wonderful
dancers, and fly home out of Mexico City.
THE PRICE? $1,065 IS THE BASE PRICE. Price includes all lodging in three and
four star hotels, all tango classes, milonga, and show, tour of unusual
sights in Oaxaca and San Miguel, cooking class, airfare to and from
Oaxaca/Mexico City. (TANGO MAYA price will probably increase each month.)
IF YOU KNOW THIS TRIP IS FOR YOU, REGISTER WITH $400 BY Dec. 15. From Dec.
15 to Jan. 15, the trip price will increase to $1,115. After Jan.15, the
general price will increase to $1,165 and the price for single women will
increase to $1,215. PRICE FOR TRIP WITHIN SAN MIGUEL ONLY, NOT INCLUDING
OAXACA, IS $400 LESS PER PERSON.
CONTACT US for group prices, and special rates for those of you from Texas.
Also contact us for details of cancellation policies.
We always recommend that you buy travel insurance in case you need to
cancel late in the trip! Sample air fares follow:
Minneapolis
American, Continental, Delta, United $250. plus approx. $100 taxes
plus $35 weekends each way
Dallas
Austin
Houston
United $344. plus approx. $100 taxes, plus $30 each way on weekends
Seattle
American, Continental, Delta, United $361. plus $100 taxes, plus $30 each
way on weekends
Denver
American, Continental, United $361. plus $100 taxes, plus $30 each way on
weekends
Kansas City
American, Continental, Delta, United $250. plus $100 taxes, plus $30 each
way on weekends
Washington DC
American, Continental, Delta, United $311. plus $100 taxes, plus $30 each
way on weekends
