And the 4th USA Amateur Salon Tango Championship WINNERS are.... ³The fun competition for serious dancers² Sponsored by: Stepping Out Studios, TangoPartner.com, Strictly Traditional Argentine Tango School Held at: 37 W 26 St (6th & Bway) (646) 742 9400
THURSDAY JULY 22nd At the Amateur Salon Championship MC Sid Grant announced Our Official Judges.. NELSON AVILA, JORGE TORRES, JUNIOR CERVILA ...placements AMATEUR SALON 1st PLACE 129 Antoinette Tomal & Johnny Tablada AMATEUR SALON 2nd PLACE 130 Miki Maeda & Carl Stein AMATEUR SALON 3rd PLACE 125 Anna Tavis & Graham Blackburn AMATEUR SALON 4th Place 120 Line Desrosiers & Aldo Dissegna AMATEUR SALON 5th Place 126 Lourdes & John Minos AMATEUR SALON 6th Place 121 Maya Belenky & Varouj Nersesian FRIDAY July 23rd the Open Salon & Stage Finals DJ: Carlos Quiroga WINNERS will be decided by our Official Judges.. NELSON AVILA, JORGE TORRES, JUNIOR CERVILA Competing are... OPEN SALON FINALISTS 121 Maya Belenki and Varouj Nersesian 129 Antoinette Tomai and Johnny Tablada. 140 Fang Hong Ren and Jean Claude Babilone 141 Yuliana Basmajyan and Brian Nyugen 145 Sibel Konu and William Chen 146 Irina Kyazimova and Osbaldo Dudau And.... STAGE CONTESTANTS 142 Emily Vartanian & Pawel Cheda USA/Poland 143 Jennifer Small & Brett Griswold USA/USA 147 Mandi Messina & Matt Grubler USA/USA While the judges deliberate we have a chance to see the 2009 Salon Champions Valorie Hart & Alberto Paz 2009 Salon Champions 2007 Salon Champions Cyrena Drusine & Eduardo Goytia 2007 Salon Champions The Presentation of the Festival Masters NELSON AVILA & MADALYN KLEIN FACUNDO POSADAS & CING-PING PENG JUNIOR CERVILA & NATALIA ROYO ANTON GAZENBEEK FAYE & BRYANT LOPEZ GAYLE MADEIRA & SID GRANT PLUS... Then we spend the night celebrating Nelson & Facundo¹s 70th birthdays and Honor Nelson¹s 60th year dancing Tango DJ: ILENE MARDER of Woodstock Tango Check out the rest of the schedule with classes by The Masters¹ Saturday & Sunday.. http:/www.celebratetango.com/festival/program.html Thank you to all the contestants and their friends and family, the judges, the tango community for supporting your colleagues and the event and of course the wheels in the back ground the celebratetango dream team! BLACK & WHITE BALL Saturday July 24th 9:30-2:30am WITH Midnight show Featuring NELSON AVILA & MADALYN KLEIN FACUNDO POSADAS & CING-PING PENG JUNIOR CERVILA & NATALIA ROYO ANTON GAZENBEEK FAYE & BRYANT LOPEZ GAYLE MADEIRA & SID GRANT 2010 Champions DJ: Yesim La Turca¹ Basic Class 8:30 CELEBRATETANGO.COM Your Doorway to a World of Tango Gayatri Martin 212 725 1078 [email protected]
