Denver Tango Festivals

Denver Tango Festivals: 1999 - 2015

The mission statement for the Denver Tango festivals was always "By dancers; for dancers."

In other words I've always felt that the needs and desires of the dancers should be the priority. To that end, I value and emphasize three things:

Most important: the quality of the DJ & the music
Organize of the dance floor to enable good dance flow
Provied everyone a seat so that the cabaceo was easy.

I produced the Denver Tango Festivals for 15 years, Memorial & Labor Day weekends. These were some of the largest tango festivals in the US during the first decade of the 2000s. I was happy to take a break for the past 7 years, during which I recovered my passion for teaching and dancing Argentine Tango.

The Denver Close-Encounters Tango Festival is a return to the original mission, which emphasized the social dancing of the milongueros that witnessed in Buenos Aires on my first visits.

Tom Stermitz
303-725-5963
tstermitz@gmail.com

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Denver Tango Festivals

2023 Memorial Day Denver Close Encounters Tango Festival, Featuring the romantic, close embrace tango typical of Buenos Aires milongas. A Tango weekend blending an Encuentro, a Marathon and the excitement of the Milongas of Buenos Aires. Three days of tango dancing with an emphasis on the Close-embrace and traditional social codes.

2024 Denver Close Encounters

Tango weekend blending an Encuentro, a Marathon and the excitement of the Milongas of Buenos Aires. Three days of tango dancing with an emphasis on the Close-embrace and traditional social codes. Top DJs are selected for their sensitivity to the passion and energy of the dancers and their love of the famous Golden Era orchestras.

Denver Tango Workshops with Brigitta Winkler

Brigitta Winkler is my primary inspiration and most significant tango mentor from the first time I met her in 1998. She was one of the original teachers of the Argentine Tango revival in Europe, and has taught in Berlin, New York and all over the world since the early 1980s. She visited Argentina for the first time during the "tango dark ages" before tango interest exploded in the 1980s and 1990s.