Tangomagia
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Tangomagia is an annual international Tango-event in Amsterdam, occurring between Christmas and New Years Eve, from 27 to 30 December.
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[edit] Program
The festival exists of workshops, the tango-café and the milongas. There is a possibility to follow workshops from the Argentinian maestro's. Every afternoon from 16 till 20 hour there is a tango-café in Hotel Arena at which people can dance on the music of a dj. In the evenings from 22 till 3 o'clock there are milonga's with performances of the Maestro's. With most of the time live-music. The musicstyle is traditional tango; no fusion or neo-tango. Every-day there is a "after-party" from 3 till 8 so that the Dutch visitors have the opportunity to go back home by train. Lots of visitors return every year. For some visitors this is a good alternative for a visit to the Mekka of tango; Buenos Aires. The entrance is limited to a few hundred visitors. Most of them come to dance, only a few are just watching.
At the end part of the visitors go to Nijmegen where there is another tango marathon event.
[edit] Locations
In 2005 they used "Crea" for the workshops, "Muziekgebouw aan het IJ", "De Duif" (a church) and "Hotel Arena" for the milonga's. In previous years the also used the Beurs van Berlage and "Meervaart".
[edit] Visitors
Visitors come from countries like: Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Canada, USA, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Marocco, Argentina, Colombia and possibly more. A quarter of the visitors are Dutch. The conversation language is English.[citation needed]
[edit] History
In 1997 was the first Tangomagia festival.
