April will be filled with Live Tango Music at VivaTango. April 6th will feature live music by Juan Villarreal and Patricio Crom, plus Meredith Klein will DJ between live sets of the milonga. See this video of Juan Villarreal and Patricio Crom at VivaTango last year VIDEO.

April ends with live music by the Winnie Cheung Duo. In between are two great milongas with outstanding DJs and instructors providing all level lessons before the milonga.

Details of these Milongas are described in this newsletter. 

At VivaTango – You Will Dance!

ABRAZOS!

Thursday April 6th will feature live music by Juan Villarreal and Patricio Crom. Juan is a singer, guitarist and composer; and Patricio is an arranger, composer, and guitarist. Juan and Patricio return to VivaTango to kick off their second North American tour. Their 2022 performance at Viva Tango was a great success. Since then, they were featured on the cover of Tangodanza Magazine. Those of you who attended last year will want to dance to their music again, and if you didn’t get to hear them last year, don’t miss hearing them April 6th. Meredith Klein will DJ between the sets of live music. Doors open at 7 PM. $20. 

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Thursday April 13th Milonga will feature Pablo Garcia Gomez & Iwona Ionescu who will teach a lesson titled “From Parada to Parada: building sequences with less usual paradas s” Pablo and Iwona are the instructors for the Princeton Adult School Tango classes, and are popular instructors at VivaTango and other tango events. The Milonga will follow the lesson. All levels lesson starts at 7:00. Milonga at 8:15. Lesson $15, Milonga $15, Both $20.

Winnie Cheung’s Duo will bring live music to VivaTango. First a workshop where they will play, dance and instruct about the different musical layers of some iconic tangos to see how the magnetic push-and-pull happens within the music and the dance. Then they will bring live music to the milonga. Winnie’s purpose in life is to make the world a better place, one tango at a time. She has played over 300 tango events in the USA, Canada, Asia, Argentina, and even Antarctica. Doors open at 7 PM. $20. 

OTHER TANGO EVENTS

Monday night Tango in Red Bank

Speakeasy Milonga in Patterson April 22

Phadelphia Tango Festival  May 26 through Monday, May 29

SAFETY

We remind dancers that they should not come if they have any symptoms or have been exposed to people who have Covid. Masks are recommended, but optional.

WATER

We urge dancers to bring their water bottle from home to cut down on single use bottles. There is a chilled water fountain next to the bathroom to refill your water bottles with chilled water and a cold/hot water dispenser in the entry to help keep you hydrated.

DIRECTIONS

VivaTango is located at 45 Stockton Street, Princeton New Jersey. We have an off-street parking lot at the venue. The dance floor is in the smaller of the two buildings. The venue is easily accessed by rail from NYC and Philly. Just get a ticket to Princeton (not Princeton Junction). You get off the train at Princeton Junction and take a shuttle train to Princeton. The venue is 8 blocks from the Princeton Train Station (0.8 mi.).

FREE EVENTS FOR VOLENTEERS

VivaTango continues to need help to make events run smoothly. Volunteering is a great way to get to know your fellow dancers. If interested contact Sylvie

Thanks for dancing at VivaTango. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please email me at Dennis

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