[Tango-A] NA-E, NA-C, NA-W: Hot Winter Tango 2008 - Registration is open!

[Sellers, Shaun]

Hot Winter Tango
St Louis MO, Dec 4-8, 2008
http://gatewaytango.org/

Registration is open.

This is a small festival for experienced dancers with enrollment
limited to 120 participants (including milongas) and gender balanced. 
Pre-registration is required (including milongas). No walk-ins
accepted.

The festival has developed a reputation for the high quality of
instruction and dancing, as well as for intimacy and friendliness.
Participants come from all over North America, with at least 1/3
of the participants tango instructors. The atmosphere is informal
and relaxed, with an emphasis on social dancing. Good floorcraft
will be essential in the milongas. There is no dress code during
the festival. A complimentary wine and empanada bar with a wide
selection of international wines will be available on Saturday
night. Sunday evening will feature free microbrewed beer and pizza.

Classes are oriented to serious dancers with multiple-years experience.
Additionally, there will be special training for tango instructors
and djs, core training and strengthening/flexibility classes.

Note that there will be early arrival classes on Thursday dec 4 with
Luciana Valle and Alex Krebs. Also, Carrie Whipple will stay in St
Louis to teach extra classes on Monday dec 8.

Due to the small size of the festival, we expect to sell out early
(last year followers passes sold out almost 3 months in advance).
If you want to attend this year, do not wait too long to register.
Currently, we have people registered from Ann Arbor,Albuquerque,
Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Denver, Eugene,
Kansas City, Los Angeles, NYC, Madison, Philadelphia, Portland,
Purdue, San Francisco, Seattle, Sedona, Tampa, Washington DC and
other places.

See the website http://gatewaytango.org/logistics.html for special
rates for hotels and airfares. In particular, Frontier Airlines is
offering a 10% discount and American airlines is offering a 5%
discount to St Louis. We have also added a widget that lists the
latest low airfares from all airlines to St Louis.

Dec 4-8, 2008
Guest instructors:
 -Brigitta Winkler (Berlin & NYC),
 -Tomas Howlin (Montreal & Buenos Aires),
 -Luciana Valle (Buenos Aires),
 -Alex Krebs (Portland),
 -Robin Thomas (NYC),
 -Kyla Mares (NYC),
 -Carrie Whipple (Portland),
 -Shorey Meyers (Berkeley),
 -Andrea Ducane (Minneapolis),

DJs:
 -Shorey Meyers (Berkeley),
 -Ramu Pyreddy (Ann Arbor),
 -Alex Krebs (Portland),
 -Robin Thomas (NYC),
 -Jennifer Olson (Portland)
 -Mike Tennant (St Louis)

Additional pre- and post-festival classes with guest instructors:
 -Luciana Valle & Alex Krebs (Dec 4),
 -Carrie Whipple (Dec 8).


shaun
http://gatewaytango.org/


Meet me in St. Louis, Louis.
Meet me at the tango fair.
Don't tell me the lights are shining
Any place but there.

We will dance the hoochie coochie.
I will be your tootsie wootsie
If you will meet me in St. Louis, Louis.
Meet me at the tango fair.

 Kerry Mills and Andrew B. Sterling (1904)