Highlights
Instructors

    
José Garófalo
      Ana Maria Schapira
      Fabrizio Forti
Milongas
Classes
Accommodations
Schedule
Price & Enrollment
Registration
Contact Information

Highlights:
  • Study with three internationally known Argentine teachers
  • Stay in a hotel in the heart of Buenos Aires
  • Transportation and entrance to different milongas each afternoon/night
  • Three dinners with the teachers
Instructors
José Garófalo  
José Garófalo
Multifaceted José Garófalo (tango teacher, filmmaker, painter) is among the most respected tango teachers in Buenos Aires.  He has performed with orchestras such as EL Arranque, and has taught tango in Argentina, the U.S., and Europe.  José has directed several documentaries about tango (for the BBC, Australian and Spanish T.V., Lonely Planet, People and Arts), and has participated in a number of foreign movies (U.S., France, Germany).  José also organizes the most popular milonga in Buenos Aires, Porteño y Bailarín, and has organized a number of festivals.
 
Ana Maria Schapira
Ana Maria is one of the most prominent teachers in Buenos Aires today of the "milonguero" style of tango. The milonguero, or "close embrace" style is a strictly social style that emphasizes the connection between the couple and musicality. It uses compact choreography that creatively employs limited space in respect for the social dance floor. Ana Maria founded and operates her own tango academy in downtown Buenos Aires, in which she and her assistants teach to more than 200 students and instructors weekly. She has taught in the U.S., Europe, and at the Buenos Aires World Tango Festival, among others.
Ana Maria Schapira
Fabrizio Forti    
Mariana and Fabrizio
Fabrizio Forti has been teaching and dancing professionally in Buenos Aires for seven years. He has participated in diverse and prestigious theatres such as Café Tortoni, Club del Vino, Confiteria La Ideal, Café Homero Manzi, Sabor a Tango, and the internationally renowned Senor Tango. He has performed in many of the milongas of Buenos Aires, including with the orchestras Color Tango, Los Reyes del Tango, and El Arranque. 
 
 

Milonga in Buenos AiresMilongas

  • Dance at the most well-know milongas, including Porteño y Bailarín, La Viruta, Niño Bien, Salon Canning, Lo de Celia, and El Beso.
  • Visit to outdoor milongas
  • Live music likely at certain milongas
  • Transportation to all milongas

Accommodations
  • Hotel includes American breakfast
  • Located in the heart of Buenos Aires
  • Package is for double occupancy
Hotel in Buenos Aires

Classes

Each tango lesson will be 1˝ hours (2 classes, 3 hours of instruction per day. Total of 15 hours of instruction)

  • Class hours:
  1. 11:30   - 1:00 PM
  2.   2:30  - 4:00 PM

Schedule

  • Day 1
Arrive, settle in, dinner with our first Argentine teacher (Fabrizio), go out dancing. Optional: tango-shoe tour.
  • Day 2
Tango seminar. Two, 1-1/2 hour lessons with Fabrizio, go out dancing.
  • Day 3
Vals seminar. Two, 1-1/2 hour lessons with Fabrizio, go out dancing. Optional: tango-show dinner.
  • Day 4
Relax, sight-see, dinner with our second Argentine teacher (José), go out dancing.  Optional: city tour/shopping tour.
  • Day 5
Tango seminar. Two, 1-1/2 hour lessons with José and assistant, go out dancing.
  • Day 6
Relax, sight-see, go out dancing. Optional: 1-1/2 hour chacarera lesson and afternoon milonga.
  • Day 7
Relax, sightsee, dinner with our third Argentine teacher (Ana Maria and assistants), go out dancing.  Optional: visit to Colonia, Uruguay.
  • Day 8
Tango seminar.  Two 1-1/2 hour tango lessons with Ana Maria and assistants, go out dancing.  Optional: breakfast at Café Tortoni.
  • Day 9
Milonga seminar. Two 1-1/2 hour milonga lessons with Ana Maria and assistants, go out dancing.
  • Day 10
Return. Optional: breakfast at Café La Biela. 

Price & Enrollment

  • $1380 US (early registration by July 31: $1280 US)
  • Mail check to: Alejandro Tosi, 8807 NE Sacramento, Portland, OR 97220, USA

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Contact Information:

Alejandro Tosi