Warsaw Festival
An intensive, enjoyable, eventful weekend with many unexpected suprises and events Living in Malmö it is easy and very cheap to travel to Warsaw to dance tango - for example, the return flight is less than the fare to Stockholm (unless you are like Pixie and book your train ticket 6 months in advance. So my trip to Warsaw was long overdue and what better time to visit than the last weekend in September for the festival. Having booked my trip I was happy to find out that one of my favourite teachers was at the festival and not only that but he was only teaching milonga. This gave me the 'röda tråd' that I find is missing at (most)festival workshops. The chance to go deeper and build on previous workshops and expand your dance all under the watchful eye of the same teacher. I took all the milonga classes at all levels with Diego'El parajo'& Victoria. The milongas were a joy to be at. Even if the Thursday venue was not ideal and the floor quite bad the dances and music more than made up for it. The Friday and Saturday milongas were more plush, being held in a beautiful old building and the dances were second to none. Unfortunately I had to fly back on Sunday and miss the last evening of the festival, but it was good to go out on a high. I will have to plan better next year to include the Sunday milonga. All in all it was a great festival to end a perfect tango summer! (Sorry no photos - too busy dancing)
ons 5 sep 2007
You missed two milongas on sunday. Both great. And the floor on thursday evening, I can hardly remember it. I had great dances.
ons 5 sep 2007
Hi there, I agree in every sence. The only thing I missed there is a tanda with you Simon, but at least we spoke a few words. Next time I will definetely go a Milongaworkshop for Diego as well. I REALLY enjoyed to watch him the last evening. So, hope to see you whenever you come to Stockholm. /Marianne
ons 5 sep 2007
Some years ago i used to go to jazz jamboree in warzawa it was great - Miles - Sun RA, Arturo Sandoval, Stanko, Namyslowski, David Murray, Shorter, Zawinul, James Blood Ulmer, Tony Williams, Mr. Ray Charles, everybody - now I have another reason to go back. To Tango - maybe meeting some old friends - nice to read your letter Simon.
lör 8 sep 2007
Different wiew, different experience. I had one workshop, with 6 leaders and 13 followers! At the milongas the average age was young in general, even younger for the females. The style of dancing were not milonguero, more fancy show-off. The couples danced both forward and backward and it was a lot of collisions at the pista. I wasn't asked to dance and I had no as an answer when I was asking myself. So if you are a woman of late middleage, a medioker dancer, have a slight overweight and are not very delightful I advise you not to go to Warsaw to tango. Warsaw is a nice town for tourists, so I recommend it for that kind of trip. Excuse my poor English, hope you get the message anyway :-).