Argentine Tango Festival with guest performances of international and local instructors
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Thanks to the organisers – the hotels and catering establishment Maistra and the Libertango Studio from the German town of Oldendurg, and patrons – the Town and its Tourist Board, Rovinj was host to the Tango Festival for the second year in
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Thanks to the organisers – the hotels and catering establishment Maistra and the Libertango Studio from the German town of Oldendurg, and patrons – the Town and its Tourist Board, Rovinj was host to the Tango Festival for the second year in a row. Apart from workshops organised on a daily basis that were held at three levels – beginners, intermediate and advanced dancers – and which were lead by deft and world renowned tango dancers – Laura Priori and Andreas von Maxen, Patricia Hilliges and Matteo Panero, and Diana Del Valle and Juan Camerlingo, the festival included dance nights as well. During the first dance evening in the Park Hotel, a show by international tango dancers was staged. The next evening, a tango show with the Mara Trio from Germany was held, and during the third and final evening, a gala show was organised in the Eden Hotel for all participants of the dance course, which included performances by the Tango Appassionato from Zagreb as well as the Mara Trio.
What was different from last year, when some 70 participants were accommodated in Maistra’s capacities for the purpose of mastering tango, this year the figure doubled. Festival guests mostly came from Germany and Italy, and all parts of our country, and they were joined by numerous Rovinj townsfolk during the dance evenings, mostly in their midlife years or older. One should be reminded that tango once was an exceptionally popular dance, that got squeezed out of the dance stage of our grandmas and grandpas by those more modern. However, since passion and love never go out of style, one should hope this sensual dance will increase its followers with each passing year, which will also present Rovinj on the dance map of Europe as a reference centre for acquiring its moves.
This year’s Tango Festival was accompanied by an attractive exhibition of photographs by the duo of Renco Kosinožić and Željko Burić, who presented themselves by a series shot in Argentina – the cradle of tango.
