Tango Festival List

Here is the list of tango festivals I have heard about. This is me Igor Polk. I am dancing Argentine Tango in San Francisco.

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The reason for the page. In 2005 I wanted to find what Tango festivals to visit that year. I spent 30 min trying to find the tango festival list on the internet, and was not able to do it except for a not convenient business-oriented site. But I remembered that there was a list published at Tango-L. Why it is not shown by search engines? Looking for some terms, I have found that the list indeed was published there by Steve de Tejas. Then this list was also published in the Oleh Kovalchuke tango weblog on this page. Oleh added some more festivals and improved the structure. Wonderful, I said to myself, here where I will link. But the list was somewhere in the middle of the long page. I scrolled up and found that the author intends to end the tango blog. I can not link to such page. So, sorry guys. To the good of all tango dancers, I will put your listing on the page which I believe will be easier found by tango dancers.

Please, let me find out what are "True Festivals" and what are "Dance Camps" out of them. What is it?

And since that time it goes. Now this is my own list. It is updated as soon as organizers send me the info. This is a rather list to websites, dates are approximate and some festivals are cancelled ( but still maintaining websites). Check the schedule with organizers!

Tango Festival List: US and Canada | The rest of the world

Was I here	Month	Date ( approxi- mate)	Where	Name of the festival and some information	Links
	January	around 1	Providence	New Year Tango Festival ( with alternative spice, I believe ). They run it in such secret, that they even can not advertise it on the Web! Contact them, if you have questions. There is an unbelievably long milonga there!
	January	3-6	San Diego, CA	San Diego Tango Festival	website
	January	21-24	Ann Arbor, MI	Michigan Tangofest	website \| 2005
	January	25-27	Houston, TX	Houston Tango Festival	website
Visited	February	16-18	Portland, OR	Annual ValenTango	website \| 2007 \| 2005
	February	20-25	Maui, Hi	Maui Tangofest	website 2007
	March	2-4	Basking Ridge, New Jersey	New Jersey Tango Extravaganza	website
	March	18-20	Washington DC	Annual DC Tango Marathon	website \| 2005
	March	19-23	Nijmegen, Holland	International Tango Festival Nijmegen "Doble Ocho"	website
	April	8-10	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta Tango Social	website
	April	13-15	Purdue University, IN	Tango your way to Purdue! ( Alternative )	website
	April	20-22	Chicago, IL	Chicago Mini Tango Festival	website
	April	27-30	Sacramento, CA	Neo Tango Festival (I have heard rumors that this one is cancelled for 2007, check with organizers )	website
	May	3-6	Montreal, Canada	Neo Tango Festival	website
	May	19-21	Champaign, IL	Refinery Tango Festival "Our first Tango Festival located in Champaign, Illinois, home of the University of IL in Champaign, Urbana May 19-21, 2006. Our instructors will be Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo, Gloria and Eduardo and Carina Losano / Tono Gallesio. All events and classes will be held at refinery, the show will be on Saturday night. The website is www.refineyourself.com under the dance section. This is a new facility with sprung floors, movable walls, full bar, beautifully modern. We will be having minimum 3 milongas, late night/all night, we have no restrictions only tired DJ's and approx 36 hours of non conflicting classes. The area hotels are affordable. The local airport is Willard, we also have Bloomington, IL , 40min drive, Indi ,approx 1 1/2 and the airports of Chicago. Thank you" Leah Heil	webpage
Visited	May	25-30	Denver, Colorado	Annual Memorial Day TangoFest ( Milonguero )	website
	May	25-28	Providence	Annual Alternative Tango Festival Workshops with Homer + Cristina Ladas, Evan Griffiths, and Carlos + Tova Moreno, 6 great DJs playing alternative and traditional music, 4 nights of dancing, 2 Practicas, a Tango Jam, a DJ workshop, Comme il Faut shoes for sale and the usual awesome food, fun and ambiance.	website
	May	27 - June 4	Miami, Florida	Tango Fantasy	program
	June	7-10	Toronto, Canada	Toronto International Tango Festival	website
	June	13-17	Boston, Massachusetts	Annual Boston Tango Festival	website
Visited	July	1-8	San Francisco, California	Annual Nora's Tango Week ( Salon )	website
	July	6-9	Chicago	TangoJoven - Murat & Michelle Erdemsel DC/NYC www.muraterdemsel.com - Homer & Cristina Lada SF www.sforganictango.info - Ney Melo & Jennifer Bratt NYC www.close-embrace.com - Burak Özkösem & Maria Alferov Chicago www.tangoeclectique.com Special guests Julio Balmaceda & Corina De La Rosa www.julioycorina.com.ar Orchestra: TANGHETTO Djs: - Jackie Ling Wong Northhampton,MA -Yulia Kriskovets DC - Hyla Dickinson Seattle	2007
	July	9-17	Montreal, Canada	Montreal International Tango Festival	website
	July	21-24	New York, New York	New York City Summer Tango Festival	schedule
	July	26-30	Maui, Hawaii	Tango Fest Maui : Miriam Larici & Hugo Patyn, Christy Cote, and Carina Losano.	website
	July	26-29	Seattle, Washington	Annual Seattle Summer TangoMagic	website \| 2005
	August	5-7	New Orleans, Louisiana	Planet Tango's New Orleans Tangofest	website \| 2005
	August	5-7	Mt Vernon, MS	Meet in the Middle	website 2004
	August	23-26	Chicago	Chicago Tango Fest	website
	August	27	Hollywood, California	HollywoodTango Festival	website
	August	31 - Sep. 5	Denver, Colorado	Denver Labor Day Milonguero Fest	website
	September	8-10	Minnespolis, MN	Heartland Tango Festival	website
	September	12-14	Brandon, VT	Moonlight in Vermont Tango Weekend	2008
	October	5-7	New York, NY	New York Tango Festival Maestros: Julio Balmaceda and Corina de La Rosa, Pablo Villaraza and Dana Frigoli, Pablo Pugliese and Noel Strazza; Musicians: Avantango and Eternal Tango; DJs: Ko Tanaka, Ramu Pyreddy, Tine Herreman, Robin Thomas	website
Visited	October	14-16	Portland, Oregon	Annual Portland TangoFest	website
	October ( will be November)	28-30	Boston, Massachusetts	Tango de los Muertos.	website \| ad on my page
	November	2-4	Los Angeles, CA	3 US Festival Internacional de Tango Argentino Hilton Hotel, Costa Mesa California. Masters are: Miriam Larici & Hugo Patyn; Nito & Elba Garcia; Natalia Patyn & Jorge Tagliaferro; Facundo & Kelly Posadas; Natalia Hills & Francisco Forquera & Juan Patyn. Orchestra is Tango To Tango Orchestra Dir. Osvaldo Barrios and Dj is John Tice www.losangelestangofestival.com Email: USFITA @ cs.com TEL: 562-695-7345	website
	November	21-25	Austin, Texas	Annual Fandango de Tango	website \| 2005
	December	6-9	St Louis, MO	Hot Winter Tango III Instructors: Evan Griffiths, Tomas Howlin, Shorey Meyers, Rebecca Schulman, Brigitta Winkler	website
	December	8-10	Madison, Wisconsin	Ochos on Ice: The First Annual Madison Winter Argentine Tango Festival	website

Tango Festival List: the rest of the world

Was I here	Month	Date ( approxi- mate)	Where	Name of the festival and some information	Links
	March	19-23	Nijmegen, Holland	International Tango Festival Nijmegen "Doble Ocho"	website
	June	19-22	Prague, Czech R.	Festival Tango Alchemie	2008
	Oct	31-Nov 2	Antwerpen, Belgium	The Tiempo Tango festival	website

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Argentine Tango Festivals are the best way to progress in dancing. They are not as good for beginners as for intermediate and for advanced dancers, but for beginners they are very inspiring. The festival atmosphere when everybody are into Tango is rarely happens on regular milongas. They are true celebrations of spirit when participants are not passive watchers but more than active actors on the scene.

Other good tango links.

Other tango festival-information websites:
festivals.tango.info
www.tangofestivals.net

My name is Igor Polk. I dance argentine tango in San Francisco. My favorite style is close embrace or Apilado style of dancing, but I like to dance everything!
Argentine, Argentin Tango, Argentinian Tango, Tango Argentino, Milonguero style.