Dear Tango Friends,
The 7th Denver Milonguero Tango Festival is just around the corner.
This festival honors the great social dancers of Buenos Aires, with
an emphasis on Close-embrace or Milonguero-style dancing. Over half
of the attendees have experience in Buenos Aires milongas. Skill
level is about 1/3 each Intermediate, Adv-Intermediate and Advanced/
Professional
Please finalize your plans for the Denver Milonguero Tango Festival
over Labor Day weekend. Registrations and Payments are now due.
Class Titles and Assignments are up (mostly). These may still change
a bit, so check again when you arrive.
IMPORTANT DETAILS:
Gender balance at this time includes a few too many women, so at this
point registration is by COUPLES OR LEADERS ONLY. This may ease by
festival date. Ladies Flying Solo! Find a gentleman from your
community to register with. (You don't have to dance with him...).
Note that Frontier Airlines is doing a sale this week.
Note that you need to reserve your Doubletree Hotel rooms soon,
before the reserved block disappears.
BUENOS AIRES-STYLE FLOORCRAFT
We expect about 400 people at the largest milonga, the famous Tango
Colorado Outdoor BBQ. (This is about 50 people fewer than Memorial
Day). The other milongas will run 250-300. This means floors will be
crowded but courteous, HOWEVER, there will plenty of seating for
everyone.
Milongas will be set up for social dancing, meaning carefully
delimited perimeter, seating OFF the floor, lighting so you can see
the dancers. We ask that everyone adhere to the courtesies of good
social dancing:
- Use good floorcraft, neither race around, nor stay forever in one
place.
- Respect the lanes, don't zig-zag across lanes.
- Catch the eye of the on-coming leader before entering the outer
lane.
At the Denver Festivals, most people use the cabaceo to find
partners. This might be from across the room or from 10 feet away.
Everyone will be glancing around trying to meet your eyes to catch a
dance.
MORE INFORMATION
For a schedule, see the website http://LaEternaMilonga.com
Email works best for contacting me: [email protected]
"Suspicion of strangers is a common human trait. But so is
curiosity, even fascination. There's a reason that Romeo and Juliet
is considered timeless. The social structure has to fight hard to
keep each new generation in line."
Tom Stermitz
[email protected]
http://LaEternaMilonga.com
2525 Birch St
Denver, CO 80207
