Thank you to all the contestants, their friends & family, the judges, the tango community for supporting, your colleagues in the Championship, and for making the Festival Classes, Black & White Ball, and Film Festival a big success. Another big thank you to the wheels in the back ground...the celebratetango dream team!
The 4th USA Tango Championship WINNERS decided by our Official Judges.. NELSON AVILA, JORGE TORRES, JUNIOR CERVILA OPEN Salon 1st Place CHAMPIONS 141 Yuliana Basmajyan and Brian Nyugen OPEN Salon 2nd Place 145 Sibel Konu and William Chen OPEN Salon 3rd Place 146 Irina Kyazimova and Osbaldo Dudau OPEN Salon 4th Place 129 Antoinette Tomai and Johnny Tablada. OPEN Salon 5th Place 140 Fang Hong Ren and Jean Claude Babilone OPEN Salon 6th Place 121 Maya Belenki and Varouj Nersesian STAGE 1st Place CHAMPIONS 142 Emily Vartanian & Pawel Cheda USA/Poland STAGE 2nd Place 143 Jennifer Small & Brett Griswold USA/USA STAGE 3rd Place 147 Mandi Messina & Matt Grubler USA/USA AMATEUR Salon 1st Place CHAMPIONS 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 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 Exhibitions by: Valorie Hart & Alberto Paz 2009 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 Then...we spent the night celebrating Nelson & Facundo¹s 70th birthdays and Honor Nelson¹s 60th year dancing Tango DJ: ILENE MARDER of Woodstock Tango FOLLOWED BY A FULL WEEKEND OF CLASSES, FILMS, DANCING INDOORS AND OUT! CELEBRATETANGO.COM Your Doorway to a World of Tango Gayatri Martin 212 725 1078 [email protected]
