Third Annual Austin Day of Tango Festival

Third Annual Austin Day of Tango Festival - December 6-8!

Join the Academy of Tango-Texas in celebrating the third annual “Day of Tango” Festival in Texas!

Featuring: Performances, Live Music, Workshops, Dancing & more!

The Day of Tango has been celebrated in Argentina every year on December 11 since 1965 to honor the birth dates of two men responsible for the worldwide promotion of the Tango: Carlos Gardel and Julio De Caro. With the approval of La Academia Nacional del Tango de la Republica Argentina, The Academy of Tango-Texas is proud to bring this momentous celebration to Austin!

December 6-8, 2013

For more information please visit: www.dayoftango.org
Or call: (512) 695-1024

Schedule of Events:
Friday, December 6th @ Ben Hur Hall
Workshop 6:15 - 7:45 PM Fabian & Roxana
Workshop 8:00 - 9:30 PM Patricio & Eva
Milonga 9:30 - 12:30 AM

Saturday, December 7th @ Ben Hur Hall
Workshop 11:00 - 12:30 PM Fabian & Roxana
Workshop 12:45 - 2:15 PM Fabian & Roxana
Workshop 2:30 - 4:00 PM Patricio & Eva
Workshop 4:15 - 5:45 PM Patricio & Eva
Milonga 8:30 PM
Performances 10:00 PM
Closing 1:00 AM

Sunday, December 8th @ Esquina Tango
Workshop 12:00 - 1:30 PM Patricio & Eva
Workshop 1:45 - 3:15 PM Patricio & Eva
Workshop 3:30 - 5:00 PM Fabian & Roxana
Workshop 5:15 - 6:45 PM Fabian & Roxana
Milonga 7:00 PM

Ben Hur Shrine Temple

7811 Rockwood Ln, Austin, Texas 78757-1139

Comments

Tim Ferriss and the Myth of Tango Mastery

Dear tanguero, I feel I should explain my reaction to your comments about Tim Ferriss. It touched a nerve and I didn't really explain my apparent hostility. It was certainly not meant for you. Several people have brought Tim Ferriss to my attention over this past year. I can usually make it a month before his name pops up again. For readers who are unfamiliar with him, he's the author of "The 4 Hour Work Week". He set a Guinness record for the most consecutive tango turns and has competed with his partner, Alicia Monti, at the Tango World Championship . As a social dancer the idea of a tango competition seems absurd. I don't think I will ever understand how something like tango could be judged - or why anyone would want it to be. But I digress. I think the most crucial detail of Ferriss's history, as I relate it to tango, is his winning Wired magazine's "Greatest Self-Promoter of All Time" . If there is any concept more out of synch with social

Tango solidarity when it counts . . .

Some fellow tanguera-bloggers and I have been having a wonderful online "conversation" via blogs, Twitter, Facebook and email - about the importance of sisterhood and solidarity. You can find Stephanie's post, here and her follow up here , and then Tangocorazon's here . I was so bouyed by the idea of women bonding, helping and supporting each other that I took some things for granted. I took for granted that it would always be easy, enlightened as I am /*cough*/ to be the sort of consistently nurturing and helpful tanguera that I am (in my head) . The truth? Where the rubber met the road (or rather when the discomfort hit the milonga), I wasn't. Here's a little background that gave me a better perspective on the events at the New Year's Eve milonga. These guidelines appear under the heading " Behavior at the Milonga " on Vancouver Island Tango: " . . . The smaller the tango population, the more 'effort' required from each one of th

"Proper" Tango Shoes

Periodically someone, usually a man, will be bring up the topic of "proper tango shoes." If he's referring to the problem (and dangers) of trying to dance in flip-flops, or mules, or platform shoes etc., those are definitely valid, and very helpful points to be made. The likelihood of damaging your feet is very high without the proper support of high quality shoes. My problem comes with the idea that the *only* proper tango shoes have 4" stiletto heels on them and fetish-worthy embellishments. (Okay, I'm pretty keen on the embellishments myself.) "goofy ballroomy shoes are a turnoff... get rid of them..." - Alex Tango Fuego (granted this is from 2007), http://alextangofuego.blogspot.com/2007/10/to-dance-or-not-to-dancebrutally.html And, in the comments on a blog post, Anonymous said... " This is a controversial one. If a follower isn't wearing tango shoes then it's usually a good sign she's not particularly good." From Ms. Hedgeh

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