(1) We're sad to announce that El Indio and Mariana have not obtained their U.S. work visas in time to make the necessary travel arrangements for the Portland TangoFest. However, we have added to our teaching staff Carina Losano (Buenos Aires but now living in Chevy Chase, Maryland), Chelsea Eng (San Francisco), Pablo Fontana (Buenos Aires) and Jaimes Friedgen & Rachel Smith (Seattle). Complete bios and pictures of all instructors (26) will soon be on Bill's web site at: http://home.europa.com/% Ewalsup/tango/tangofest/instructors.html (BTW, we are planning on hosting El Indio and Mariana for future events in Portland and Seattle--so stay tuned.)
(2) This year we've moved the Advanced classes to Ankeny Street Studio (2.5 blocks from the Viscount) and I have rented Studio A (on the ground floor) to be exclusively available for private lessons. (3) Each day (except Sat) there will be a supervised practica with a half dozen instructors available for individual questions and help. This pracitica is free to anyone signing up for a class on that day. (4) I'm still working on getting the orchestra for Sat night and the location of the Sat all-night dance. But you will absolutely LOVE the venue for the Saturday evening Grande Tango Ball. It's an historic huge beautiful old ballroom in downtown Portland. (5) We will have another drawing at the first Seattle Tango Tea in Sept (9/14/03) for a free pass to all of the TangoFest workshops--that's a $235 value. Raffle tickets are only $1. See http://www.geocities.com/seattletangotea/ for time and location. (6) Quite a few people have already pre-registered and we expect this years event to be knock-out. Hope you can make it. See my web site at http://www.claysdancestudio.com/PDXTangoFest2003/ for more details. Clay Clay: [email protected] Sue: [email protected] Phone: (206) 729-7268 Address: 1340 N 79th St Apt 101, Seattle, WA 98103 Web: www.claysdancestudio.com
