6th San Diego New Years Tango Festival

Update: December 26, 2011
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6th San Diego New Years Tango Festival:
Dec 29, 2011 - Jan 1, 2012

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A Tango festival "By Dancers; For Dancers"

T he San Diego Tango Festivals are a special treat for all tango dancers who love the social tango popular in the milongas of Buenos Aires: close, subtle & romantic. We hire some of the top DJs in the US. "For Dancers, By Dancers", which means everything is designed with the dancers in mind. Dance floors will be arranged with tables around the edge so walkers don't disturb the line of dance. The floors will be crowded, but courteous. Expect two or three lanes and Buenos Aires style floorcraft. DJs will play tandas with cortinas. Most people are familiar with the cabeceo to get dances, and the teachers will emphasize navigation and floorcraft in their classes.

This will be the 6th San Diego Tango Festival. These Festivals never fail to attract a high level of dancer. San Diego has a friendly, welcoming tango community, and you will see many of your friends from past festivals.

Special Notices

(1) Thursday and Late Sunday are off-site, but there will be carpools from the hotel. Please check the maps at the festival website. MAYBE you will have to take a taxi one way to meet your schedule, but there will be many people returning to the hotel at the end of the events.

(2) The hotel is not far from the airport, and there is a free shuttle. Call the Kona Kai to schedule a shuttle: 800-566-2524

(3) The "non-view" room rate rate at the hotel is $105/night. Non-view means looking at the pools, patios and/or marina, rather than the bay.

What's New and Different This Time?

The festival pass includes America Mauhar's Thursday evening, kick-off milonga at Dancing Unlimited.

The special, early-arrival teachers on Thursday, December 29 will be Homer & Cristina Ladas of San Francisco, CA.

The Kona Kai hotel is a beautiful, Shelter Island hotel with view rooms ($115) across the bay and "non-view" rooms ($105) into the harbor full of sailing boats. The hotel has an airport shuttle, so you don't need to rent a car.

We will not be offering Beginner classes at this festival. All classes are Intermediate or above, which assumes you already know the basics of tango, i.e. ochos, ocho-cortados, improvisation, and navigation. Adv-Intermediate & Advanced classes don't present much vocabulary; instead they focus on concepts, musicality, technique, and dance skills. Workshops are oriented to SOCIAL tango dancing, not STAGE tango. The level is generally pretty high, and many advanced dancers will be attending workshops. This is where you meet and get to know partners for dancing later at the milongas.

San Diego Tango Festival Early Arrival Instructors:

San Diego Tango Festival Featured Instructors:

Featured DJs and Yoga:

Pricing for Festival Passes

  • 4-Day Pass - $255 (6 Milongas, 8 Classes Thu - Sun) SAVE $60
  • 3-Day Pass - $205 (5 Milongas, 6 Classes Fri - Sun) SAVE $45
  • 2-Day Pass - $145 (3 Milongas, 4 Classes Sat - Sun) SAVE $20
  • Workshop Pass - $90 (4 Classes, Fri - Sun) SAVE $20
  • Milonga Pass $90 (6 milongas Thu - Sun, SAVE $25)

Note, milonga and festival passes include all milongas from Thur - Sun evening, not including the all-nighter, which is $13 extra.