Dear Tango Friends; Five weeks until the start of the First Southern Tango Social (Atlanta, April 8-10). We hope you are as excited as we are. Here are the last developments regarding teachers, accommodations and extras.
- Brigitta Winkler will be back to Berlin after the Festival. The Tango Social is one of the last chances to take workshops with her in the US this spring. - The free T-shirts are long gone. We will have them available for sale on site for ONLY $15. - Location: All the events (classes and milongas) of the festival will take place at the Holiday Inn Select in downtown Decatur, located 6 miles from downtown Atlanta. It is a self-contained venue with a direct subway connection to the Atlanta airport and surrounded by local restaurants and shops. No rental car or taxis are needed. Completely renovated in 2000, the hotel offers a discount rate of $79 per night. The hotel discount rate is valid until March 10th. Probably we will be able to maintain this rate after that date, but it will mostly depend on room availability. Please mention "Atlanta Tango event" when making your reservation by calling 404-371 0204. Details and directions at: http://www.atlantatangofestival.com/venue.html - For those of you still trying to decide whether to attend, Delta just released a new offer for flights between Atlanta and most cities in the country for this Spring. The offer is valid until March 10th, so hurry up and book your flight. - New addition to the program: Saturday afternoon, Film Showing: Special Selections from Chasing the Ghost Documentary. See what dancing looks like in Buenos Aires milongas! Barbara Durr will present new selections from a variety of milongas. The footage is from her documentary project Chasing the Ghost. Copies of the video will be available for purchase. - Take a look to the extras page (http://www.atlantatangofestival.com/extras.html). We will have clothes, shoes and other accessories vendors for all your tango needs. - Most of the teachers will be in Atlanta Thursday April 7th. They will attend Dine and Tango at Carpe Diem (a regular event in Atlanta tango community). We will take that opportunity to introduce the new fragrance "Tango Eau de cologne". Two bottles of perfume will be ruffled among the people present at the dinner. For a detailed look at the schedule, please visit: http://www.atlantatangofestival.com/schedule.html ============================================================================== PRICING AND PASSES Individual workshops are priced $25.00 each. The prices of individual milongas, are posted at: http://www.atlantatangofestival.com/schedule.html The passes we offer are: Deluxe Festival Pass $135.00 Includes all events on schedule (including wine tasting and champagne brunch) Save $60 over at-the-door prices Festival Pass $120.00 Includes all milongas, classes, and practicas Excludes brunch Save $45 over at-the-door prices Workshop Pass $100.00 Includes all workshops Save $25 over at-the-door prices Milonga Pass $30.00 Includes all milongas and practicas Save $10 over at-the-door prices For registration, please visit http://www.atlantatangofestival.com/pricing.html ================================================================================= TEACHERS AND DJ'S Tomas Howlin and Brigitte Winkler Tomas and Brigitte, two well known and established teachers, started teaching together recently, and, in their own words, they are in tango love. They teach showing respect for the dance, the people attending the workshops and each other, sharing their own connection with everybody in the room. More information in our website (www.atlantatangofestival.com) or at www.tangoclasico.com/tomas and at members.aol.com/btango5/index.htm Robin Thomas and Jennifer Bratt Robin and Jennifer focus on musicality, technique and a comfortable embrace. They teach many of the steps and figures associated with nuevo tango but for them it is important to point that there is very little you can do in open embrace that you can't do close. More information in our website (www.atlantatangofestival.com) or at www.close-embrace.com Robert Hauk Robert Hauk is a nationally renowned tango teacher and DJ, who has been dancing and teaching tango for nearly a decade. His specialty is "apilado" or "milonguero" style dancing, in which he has achieved an extraordinary level skill --sufficient even to win the praise of Buenos Aires's toughest judges, the milongueros themselves. His ability to communicate the music and the emotion has made him a highly sought after dance partner at milongas across the US. More information about Robert in our website (www.atlantatangofestival.com) or at home.teleport.com/~robhauk/ Robin Thomas is considered one of the top tango DJs in North America. He DJs many regular milongas in New York City as well as travels around to country to provide music at festivals. Robert Hauk --who is also a musicianis as skilled as a DJ as a teacher and has DJ'd at major US tango festivals, including Denver, Portland, and Los Angeles. Ramu Pyreddy is a die-hard tango fanatic - almost always the last to leave the floor - believes that it is the music and the people that make a milonga. As a DJ he strives to develop a communication with the dancers, selecting music that has strong emotional connection with the dancers - to reflect the mood of the dancers and the atmosphere of the venue. Ramu is actively involved in the Ann Arbor Tango community where he DJs regularly. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
