Chicago Mini Tango Festival

Spice up your Spring with hot social tango dancing in Chicago. This weekend will provide you with a unique opportunity to share your love of tango, meet new people and celebrate Spring in Chicago. Featuring Three days of classes and milongas, with a class and welcome milonga on Thursday April 8th. The website (www.chicagotangofestival.com) for our Fifth Annual Chicago Mini Tango Festival has been updated. The Festival will be from April 8-11, 2010 and registration is now available.

We again bring Buenos Aires to Chicago and are delighted to have Alberto Dassieu, a great milonguero, at our Festival. The instructors for the Chicago Mini Tango Festival include Alberto Dassieu and Paulina Spinoso (Buenos Aires), Gustavo Benzecry and Maria Olivera (Buenos Aires), and
Oscar and Mary Ann Casas (Buenos Aires/). Djs include Ramu Pyreddy (Washington, D.C.), Jorge Andrés (Toronto), Lampis Zalavras (Los Angeles), Oleh Kovalchuke (Kansas City, Mo), and Maria Olivera (Buenos Aires).

The four day festival held at the University of Chicago in the classic Hyde Park section of Chicago includes the ability to select from over 20 workshops. There will also be eight milongas (including our Saturday Argentina night milonga with wine, empanadas, and fantastic performances. an all night milonga, and our special Sunday morning “Eye Opener milonga”). There will also be a special chat session on Sunday afternoon.
To see videos of the 2009 Chicago Mini Tango Festival which included Ruben Harymbat and Enriqueta Kleinman, Gustavo Benzecry and Maria Olivera, Elina Roldan and Ramiro Gigliotti, and Oscar Casas, please go to: http://www.chicagotangofestival.com/Old09Video.php.

Pricing & Registration

Registration including early, early bird registration is now available. Early, early bird registration is available until February 28, 2010. For pricing and registration information, please go to:

http://www.chicagotangofestival.com/Payment_Registration.php

Schedule
For the schedule and information on private classes please go to
http://www.chicagotangofestival.com/Schedule.php

Locations
For locations and directions to the events, please go to
http://www.chicagotangofestival.com/Location.php

Air Travel & Car Rental

Please note that we have arranged for discounted airfares on American Airlines to either Midway Airport (airport code: MDW) or Ohare International Airport (airport code: ORD). We have also arranged for discounted rentals on Avis car rentals. For further
details go to:
http://www.chicagotangofestival.com/Air_Travel_Car_Rental.php

Lodging

There are several lodging alternatives, including a variety of rooms at the International House at the University of Chicago and also the possibility of getting a room at the Ramada Inn in Hyde Park. For more information on lodging options, please go to:
http://www.chicagotangofestival.com/Lodging.php

For more information about lodging in general, please contact us at lodging@chicagotangofestival.com.


Looking forward to see you in April.


Take care,

Ray Barbosa