Sorting through the North American Festivals


3186 Sorting through the North American Festivals	ARTICLE INDEX
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:44:09 -0600 From: Stephen Brown <Stephen.P.Brown@DAL.FRB.ORG> Subject: Sorting through the North American Festivals For me, the Stanford Tango Week helped define what is meant by a tango festival. It lasted a week and had multiple teachers offering simultaneous classes, milongas every night with live music, and drew dancers from all over the country (and world). Because it was subsidized by sponsors, Stanford Tango Week was also fairly inexpensive. Of course, there are a number of shorter events who share a sufficient number of characteristics with the Stanford Tango Week that they ought to be considered short festivals rather than weekend workshops. The Austin, Denver and Portland events are obviously festivals to anyone who attends. With such geographically dispersed contributors, Tango-L is good resource to put together information about the various tango festivals. So that people can better sort through the various festivals, the following information about each festival would be useful: number of days, number of milongas, number of milongas with live music, number of djs, number of teachers, number of class periods, number of tracks (beginning, intermediate, advanced, etc.), recent attendance, housing arrangements, prices. Those organizers who are reluctant to submit their own information to Tango-L for fear of running afoul of the no-commercial posting rule may send their information to me and I will include it in a summary post with information about all the North American festivals. With best regards, Steve 3rd Michigan Tango Festival, January 21-24 in Ann Arbor, MI https://www.umich.edu/~umtango/index.html 8th Annual ValenTango, February 18-20 in Portland, OR https://www.claysdancestudio.com 8th Annual Weekend of Tango, February 18-20 in Tampa, FL https://www.tampatango.com/ New Jersey Tango Extravaganza, March 4-6 in Basking Ridge, NJ https://www.tangoextravaganza.com 4th Annual DC Tango Marathon, March 18-20 in Washinton DC https://www.le-tango.com/ Atlanta Tango Social, April 8-10 in Atlanta, GA https://www.atlantatangofestival.com/ Neo-Tango Festival, April 28 - May 1 in Sacramento, CA https://www.tango-renaissance.com/ Toronto International Tango Festival, May 20-22 in Toronto, ON https://www.tangofest.ca/ 5th Annual Memorial Day TangoFest, May 25-30 in Denver, CO https://www.tango.org/dance/ Tango Fantasy, May 27 - June 4 in Miami, FL https://www.TangoFantasy.com Toronto International Tango Festival, June 9-12 in Toronto, ON https://www.TorontoTangoFestival.com Boston Tango Festival, June 15-19 in Boston, MA https://www.bostontangofestival.com/ 8th Annual Nora's Tango Week, July 1-8 in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA https://www.tangoweek.com/ Montreal International Tango Festival, July 9-17 in Montreal, QC https://www.festivaldetangodemontreal.qc.ca/ New York City Summer Tango Festival, July 21-24 in New York, NY https://www.celebratetango.com/ Meet in the Middle, August 5-7 in Mt. Vernon, MO https://www.thelearningdepot.com/murrays-1 2nd Annual Seattle Summer TangoMagic, August 12-14 in Seattle, WA https://www.claysdancestudio.com/ HollywoodTango Festival, August 27 in Hollywood, CA https://www.hollywoodtangofestival.com/ Planet Tango's New Orleans Tangofest, August 5-7 in New Orleans, LA https://www.planet-tango.com/ 6th Denver Labor Day Milonguero Fest, August 31 - September 5 in Denver, CO https://www.tango.org/dance/ 9th Annual Portland TangoFest, October 14-16, Portland, OR https://www.claysdancestudio.com/ 7th Annual Fandango de Tango, November 23-27, Austin, TX https://www.learn2dance.com/ -fin- Continue to About interrupting a milonga for "announcements" \| ARTICLE INDEX

3186 Sorting through the North American Festivals