The 3rd Annual Close Embrace Tango Fiesta will take place October 13-15 in Urbana-Champaign IL. Our guest instructors are Robert Hauk (Portland OR), Barbara Durr (Atlanta GA), and Yelena Sinelnikova & Avik Basu (Ann Arbor MI). They are great representatives of some of the strongest close embrace tango communities in the US, which they have helped build. Robert and Avik will also be DJs for our milongas. There will be simultaneous workshops at all levels, from beginner to advanced. There will be milongas Friday and Saturday night and Sunday early evening.
This festival has attracted over 100 dancers each year and is growing. This has become a gathering point for close embrace tango dancers in the Midwest, attracting some of the best dancers from numerous tango communities, not only in the Midwest, but also beyond. Photos of the 2004 and 2005 close embrace festivals are now available on our website. Go to our home page: www.centraltango.com and click on the link to the 3rd Annual Close Embrace Tango Fiesta. Workshop content for this year, still under development, will be announced soon. Special additions to this year's program: - Presentation with discussion of Barbara Durr's documentary film 'Chasing the Ghost' on dancing in the milongas of Buenos Aires - Tango DJ Fundamentals workshop by Robert Hauk Mark your calendar for the 3rd Annual Close Embrace Tango Fiesta. If you haven't been to one of our tango weekends yet, you will soon realize that our friendly University town 130 miles south of Chicago has a thriving tango community. One great feature of our locale is that our overhead expenses are lower than those of big cities and we pass these savings on to you. Registration costs for the weekend will be around $100, and substantially discounted for students. There are numerous reasonably priced hotels and restaurants within 10 minutes of the festival site. Housing in the homes of local tangueros will be available on a limited basis to further offset costs. There is plenty of free parking at the festival site and around town. It is also easy to enter Urbana-Champaign from 3 Interstate highways (I-57, I-74, and I-72) and there will be little traffic in getting around town. Our airport, 20 minutes from he festival site, has direct flights to Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, and Dallas. This will be a pleasant rewarding tango weekend with top quality instruction, great dancers, and at a reasonable cost. We look forward to seeing you in October. Ron Weigel & Susana Vazquez Weigel Tango Society of Central Illinois Urbana IL www.centraltango.com
