The Austin Spring Tango Festival started 20 years ago!  Every year our goal has been to make the festival the best it can be, and over the years we have learned a lot about what makes a festival successful for its attendees, maestros, DJs, and our community. We look back with pride on the continual improvement we believe we have achieved over this period.

Our festival consistently sells out now, but we have no desire to increase its size. About 350 people is ideal for the size of festival we want to be providing.  It allows us to afford to bring in the finest teachers from around the world, it allows us to retain a sense of coherence and community that is harder to maintain in larger events.  And the feeling of the physical space has always been important to us.  We want a space that is beautiful and is vibrant and peaceful at the same time.  Our goal, then, is not to grow the size of our festival, our goal is to perfect the feeling and experience you have when you attend the Austin Spring Tango Festival.

Schedule:

Friday, March 21, 2025

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Technique - All Levels
Tango - Advanced
Tango - Intermediate

4:30 pm  - 6:00 pm
Tango - Advanced
Milonga  - Intermediate
Connection - All Levels

7:00 pm - 12:00 am
Friday Spring Fling Milonga
Featuring a group performance by our Festival Maestros.
DJ: Jonas Aquino

Workshop:

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Lorena And Gianpiero
Traditional dynamics in many solutions:
How to add plasticity and musicality to standard patterns for more fun and challenge.

Silvina And Julio
Sequence versus the Structure:
Learn how to analyze and shape the structures and you will no longer need to remember the sequences.

Lucila and "Joe"
Out of axis: Alternatives in various positions for the social dance floor.

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Silvina And Julio
How the quality of the movements changes our dance to the music: "legato", "staccato", and accented movements.

Lucila and "Joe"
Milonga is Milonga:
Ease and fun. Brief sequences to use them that same night!

Lorena And Gianpiero
Change of amplitude and complexity:
Ideas and practice to go from simple to complex and back, adding vibrance and contrast to the dance.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

10:30 am - 10:55 am
Tango Prep with PT Michelle Wald
Targeted stretches to wake up our tango bodies.

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Tango - Intermediate
Tango - All Levels
Tango - Advanced

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Musicality - Advanced
Musicality  - All Levels
Vals - Intermediate

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Tango Recovery with PT Michelle Wald
Targeted stretches for recovery to keep us dancing all night.

3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Saturday Afternoon Delight Milonga
Traditional main room and practica side room.
DJ: Sofia "Marfushka" Tikhovidova

7:30 pm - 12:00 am
Saturday Violet Crown Milonga
Featuring individual performances from our Festival Maestros.
DJ: Edmond Bardhi

12:30 am - 3:30 am
Saturday Late Night Speakeasy Milonga
Location: Scottish Rite Theater (15 to 20 minute walk)
DJ: Vania Rey

Workshop:

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Lucila and "Joe"
Music:How to propose music through energy management in the hug.

Silvina And Julio
Repetition of Movements:
The repetition of movements to build linear or circular "cadenas" to be applied to driving melody of the tango vals.

Lorena And Gianpiero
"Routines":
Our building blocks for training and improvisation in round dynamics.

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Tango Recovery with PT Michelle Wald
Grand Ballroom
Targeted stretches for recovery to keep us dancing all night.

Sunday, March 23, 2025

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Tango - Intermediate
Vals- Advanced
Musicality - All Levels

3:00 pm -  4:30 pm
Group Milonga Workshop - All Maestros

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Sunday Quick Dip Milonga/Practica
in the side room
DJ: John Turci-Escobar

6:00 pm - 12:00 am
Sunday Asado BBQ AND Milonga
Asado: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Sunday Closing Milongas

7:30pm-Midnight
Traditional main room and alternative side room.
Traditional DJ: Chantal Forgues
Alternative DJ: Jonas Aquino (8pm-11pm)

Workshop:

1:15 -  2:45 pm
Silvina And Julio
Rebounds interplay:
Smart options to improve the rhythmic interpretation.

Lorena And Gianpiero
Alignment techniques for posture and comfort in close embrace:
How and where to engage to empower the couple and make your partner happy.

Lucila and "Joe"
Vals is Vals:
Rhythmic patterns during the turn combining complex elements.

3:00 - 4:30 pm
Milonga - All Grand Ballroom
Challenge sequence with all Maestros building on each other:
3 couples, three proposals, 1 sequence

Date: March 21 - 23, 2025

Location:

The Mansion
2312 San Gabriel Street
Austin, TX 78705

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