tangophilia blog

We\’re going to be escorting a small group of people down to Tampa, Florida for the 7th Annual Weekend of Tango in Tampa organized by Victor Crichton. The weekend will be held 13-15 February, 2004, and will feature full sets workshops by Carolina Zokalski y Diego di Falco of Forever Tango, as well as Fernanda Ghi y Guillermo Merlo of Tango Dreams! In addition to the Friday and Saturday milongas, the weekend culminates in a huge show Sunday night at the historic Centro Asturiano in Ybor City. The evening includes a full dinner, dancing in a grand ballroom with live music, and a full show (almost 2 hours!) of dance performances, a live tango orchestra, and tango singers.

This will be our 4th visit to tango in Tampa, and our 3rd specifically for this event! We highly recommend it as an opportunity to study with wonderful instructors, meet and dance with new people, enjoy a spectacular show, and of course, escape the NC winter! Details for the Weekend of Tango in Tampa are available at Victor\’s Tampa Tango website.

Here\’s the scoop on the 6th annual Congreso Internacional de Tango Argentino (CITA) which will take place in Buenos Aires during the week of March 14-21, 2004.
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We\’re making some changes to the classes in 2004. The Foundations and Intermediate Classes are being reorganized to make classes more convenient for students and help students retain material by providing more continuity from week to week. Read on for the details!
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There are going to be a lot of changes made in 2004, and some of them
are starting now.

One of these changes is in the organization and usage of the tangophilia
announcements list. I\’m going to be moving the tangophilia
announcements list (tangophilia@yahoogroups.com) off of the Yahoo Groups
service and onto my own server. Some of my reasons are the increasing
limitations that Yahoo is placing on the Groups service, as well as
Yahoo\’s tendency toward more and more marketing messages to people that
don\’t manually opt-out of all the marketing preferences that Yahoo likes
to push.

My other reasons are to be able to provide more relevant information to
the people that want it. While some of you may want to see
announcements on everything tango related, some only want to see info on
classes, or else just music events, or just workshops. Some of you are
subscribed to multiple lists and see some duplication, while some of you
miss out on a lot because you rely only on one list. My solution is to
move the list to my own server, and to provide other lists that are more
tailored to specific interests. You can sign up for the all-inclusive
list or opt to subscribe only to those lists that are most relevant to
your interests.
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