6th Philadelphia International Tango Festival
Thu May 19 - Sun May 22 , See website for full schedule
The 6th Philadelphia International Tango Festival Invites You to Dance All Day and All Night – May 19-22, 2016 http://philadelphiatangofestival.com Prolonged dancing of Argentine tango is known to produce a particular kind of exhilaration. It’s often called a “tango trance,” and it happens when feelings of connection—with one’s partner, the music and the surrounding space and dancers—are so sublime that one’s focus becomes completely tethered to the present, with no possibility of distraction or doubt. Some people have this experience fairly quickly when they start dancing tango; others may have to wait years. But once people get a taste of the tango trance, they long for more. Enter the tango festival… no experience is quite as likely to induce the tango trance as an event that makes it possible to dance all day and all night for days on end. The 6th Philadelphia International Tango Festival offers 37 hours of workshops and 26 hours of social dancing in the short space of 3.5 days, from the evening of Thursday, May 19 through the wee hours of Monday, May 23. At least 500 dancers from throughout the United States – and abroad – will gather in Philadelphia for this yearly event, which takes place at Neighborhood House (20 North American Street) in the heart of historic Old City, Philadelphia. Four world-renowned couples will teach and perform at the festival; of the eight dancers who make up those four couples, seven are natives of Argentina, tango’s birthplace. Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, the headliners, are arguably the most famous tango dancers in the world. They are recognized both for their exquisitely moving performances—that feature brilliant musicality.
