Gavito Tango Festival - Maestros Performance

Gustavo Naveira y Giselle Anne - Performance at Gavito Tango Festival in Los Angeles

I haven't been to a Tango Festival in a long time -- Tango Maya Fest next week!

Not counting our local Austin Spring Tango Festival, which is like 5mins from our house. But a real, bona fide, big-time, fancy-ass tango festival. Probably Denver back in 2007. I guess I've really only ever been to two - multiple times each - Denver and Atlanta. Fandango de Tango back when it was in Austin - tango with lots of salsa and really bad DJ's. And then our Austin Spring Tango Festival, which we didn't go last year b/c we're boycotting. We were thinking about going this year, but then we heard they want to allow the reason we're boycotting to come back into the community, even though our primary venue/organizers have laid down a lifetime ban on the reason we're boycotting. Anyway, I digress. I'm going to write about that subject - the reason we're boycotting subject. Some day.

So we're headed to the Tango Maya Fest next week. Cancun. Mexico. A week of R&R. Sun, sand, swim, sleep, read, eat, dance, fuck, make love, and all that jazz. Three or four hundred dancers. I'm looking forward to it. Excited actually. I don't get excited, except when we're gonna, uh...never mind. Sugar G always excites me. Plus I need a vacation. This is kinda our first "real" vacation together. We did go to Marfa at Christmas. Oh yeah, New Orleans Tango Festival a few years ago. That one too.

Fwiw, Sugar G has attended this festival several times. Maybe even many times. This year is number 9 for the festival. I think she's attended at least 5 or 6 years.


So I guess I'll post and report a bit. Maybe. We shall see.


The headliners/maestro-as/teachers:


Sebastian Arce & Mariana Montes





Guillermo de Fazio & Giovanna Dan





Luciano Brigante & Alejandra Orozco (the festival organizers!)





Daniela Roig & Hernan Prieto





Guillermo Salvat & Miriam Lea




Class/milonga schedule
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Impressive, too...2018 International Tango Festival Baden-Baden by sivis'art

Really nicely produced video here...of the 2018 International Tango Festival :: Baden-Baden...November 9-11, 2018...

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What's In Your Heart? :: Portland Tango Festival Promo Video :: October 11-15, 2018

Will you let tango sweep you across Portland like Nancy and Chris did? We know we will! Watch this teaser for Portland Tango Festival 2018. You won't regret it! We can't wait to see you all in a just a couple of months. For more information go to www.portlandtangofest.com.

We would like to thank Nancy & Chris for participating in this video, Oliver for the beautiful voice over,TriMet for allowing us to use them, and Alex Krebs for letting us use his beautiful song Ella Es Asi feat. Enrique El Peru Chavez by The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet. Lastly, we would like to extend our appreciation to Bassel Hamieh for producing all of our videos. We can't wait to show you the rest!

The narrator says "We are a city that recognizes your individuality and inspires what is already in your heart." Obviously referring to the city of Portland.

I'll extrapolate that over to tango, and re-word it.

"What's in your heart?" Obvious/common words, not-so-common wording. Loaded with meaning.

In a different time and place and context, Jypsy JedEye said "tango is a wonderful forum to explore and cultivate mutual respect, freedom, communication, pleasure, compassion, forgiveness, grace, grace, generosity, empathy, subtlety, gentleness, and passion".

Indeed.

What's in your heart?