Tango in the Spring: 1-4 October 2010 Canberra Australia

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How much are tickets?

A weekend pass which includes entry to all events is $50.
Entry to each individual milonga is $15.

Who’s running it?

Tango in the Spring is an event of the Tango Social Club of Canberra, a non-profit association in Canberra, run by volunteers. There’s five of us doing the admin, but there will be a bunch of other people from the Club helping out on the week, in all kinds of ways. 

What kind of music will be played?

Each DJ will play their selections of the best ‘Golden Age’ Argentine Tango music, plus some spice.

Who’s performing at the milongas?

We are not having any performances at the milongas. Just dancing!

What happens to the profits (and who pays for it if there’s a loss)?

The Tango Social Club of Canberra is taking the financial risk on this event. If there is a surplus, it will go towards other non-profit tango events and activities. And if there’s a loss to cover, the Club will be paying it from its members’ funds.

How do I organise to do a performance at the festival?

We are not having any performances at the festival. We would love people who normally do tango performances to come, but to take a break from performing and enjoy dancing socially with everyone else.

How do I organise to teach a workshop at the festival?

We are not having any workshops or classes at the festival. We would love tango teachers to come, but we want you here to enjoy dancing socially with everyone else. Please don’t organise workshops while you are here – we really want everyone to be able to have all their energy available for dancing socially, not working on the latest move or worrying about technical corrections.

What about an alternative music milonga?

We are focussing on the best of ‘Golden Age’ tango music, with a few excursions earlier and later. Every DJ will have their own style of course, but there will be only the occasional tanda outside of traditional Argentine tango music.

What is the difference between a practica and a milonga?

The Canberra tango community is very proud of our weekly practicas.

Our practicas have a distinctly different focus from a milonga: they are just for improving our tango dancing. How you work on it is up to you.  You might spend time on discussing a problem with your fellow dancers, trying out new ideas, working on your technique, polishing your tango walk by walking around by yourself, watching what others are doing, or just by dancing.  

The weekly practicas in Canberra offer a good selection of quality danceable Argentine tango music, and comfortable venues for this purpose. You can have a taste of our practica during the festival on Saturday afternoon. Please come along!

Milongas, on the other hand, are the place for you to just dance tango. Unlike practicas, no teaching and practising happens on the dance floor. It is the place for you to just immerse yourself in the gorgeous tango music that the DJs bring us, and enjoy the connection with the music, your partner, and the fellow dancers sharing the floor with you. Yes, milonga is the place where we experience the beauty of social Argentine tango.

If this is a Tango Social Club of Canberra event why is there a separate website?

Tango in the Spring is an event of the Tango Social Club of Canberra – you can also access this website by going to www.tangocanberra.asn.au/tangointhespring and we have links to this site from the TSCC site. The TSCC website is currently being redeveloped so we thought we’d set up a separate site so as not to overlap with the redevelopment plus we have in the back of our minds that perhaps another like-minded group from another city may like to adopt Tango in the Spring next year…. so they could then take over management of this website. Any volunteers?