Director Park Tango

Director Park Tango Come dance tango to live music in the middle of the city this summer! FREE and open to the public!

Friday August 25, 2017

FREE and open to the public:
Beginners tango lesson at 6pm
Dancing 7-10pm

LIVE MUSIC by Rita Sabler Quartet
Featuring Adrian Jost of San Francisco tango band Trio Garufa
Band breaks DJ’d by: Derrick del Pilar: Tango Lyrics Translator
Folkloric dance performance by: Weiwei Hsueh

Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/138876266704885/

Big thanks to our current

2017 sponsors! Guerrilla Development Company (http://guerrilladev.co/), Polaris Dance Theatre (http://polarisdance.org/), Tabor Bread Bakery and Cafe (http://www.taborbread.com/), Jerry Wallach,Oregon Broker & Tanguero with Keller Williams Reality (JerryKnows.com), Dance with Joy Studios (http://www.dancewithjoystudios.com/). For more information and to make a donation, please email us at: [email protected]

08/25/2025

Dancing tonight, Monday, August 25th, from 6-8pm in Director Park. Free!

08/07/2025

Tango dancing this Monday, August 11th, 2025 from 6-8pm in Director Park in downtown Portland. Free!
There will be live music featuring Conjunto Berretin’s 9-piece extended tango orchestra from 7-7:30pm!
As always, a there will be a large portable wooden floor.

This Sunday, September 24, there will be a free outdoor milonga at Director Park from 6 - 8 pm. Alex Krebs will DJ.
09/21/2023

This Sunday, September 24, there will be a free outdoor milonga at Director Park from 6 - 8 pm. Alex Krebs will DJ.

07/30/2021

Due to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, this event will not happen during the summer of 2021. We hope everyone stays healthy so that we can dance again once it is safe.

06/16/2020

Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, this event will not happen during the summer of 2020. We hope everyone stays healthy so that we can dance again once it is safe.

Photo by Claire Thorington
08/06/2019

Photo by Claire Thorington

Thank you again to our amazing sponsors for a successful Director Park TANGO 2019!!!!Polaris Dance Theatre and The Galax...
08/06/2019

Thank you again to our amazing sponsors for a successful Director Park TANGO 2019!!!!
Polaris Dance Theatre and The Galaxy Dance Festival: http://polarisdance.org/
https://polarisdance.org/galaxy-dance-festival/
Unitus Community Credit Union: https://www.unitusccu.com/
Portland Tango Festival: https://www.portlandtangofest.com/
Vibrant Table Catering & Events: https://vibranttable.com/
Jerry Wallach, Tanguero & Oregon Broker with Keller Williams Realty: http://www.JerryKnows.com
Rachel Lidskog of Dance with Joy Studios: http://www.dancewithjoystudios.com/
and Jim Labbe, for the loan of his dance floor, and his support!

We are excited to announce our class teacher for tonight, starting at 6 pm: Elizabeth Wartluft!Elizabeth started studyin...
08/02/2019

We are excited to announce our class teacher for tonight, starting at 6 pm: Elizabeth Wartluft!

Elizabeth started studying folk, swing, ballroom, African, ballet, modern and jazz dance in college. She holds a M.A. in dance and a M.A. in cultural anthropology, both from the University of Oregon. She got hooked on Argentine tango in 1995 and started the tango community in Eugene, Oregon in 1996, in conjunction with Greg Estes. To write her master’s thesis, she visited Buenos Aires in 1999, 2000 and 2001, interviewed dancers and teachers, and explored gender roles in tango, as well as dancers' views towards the lead and follow roles. She moved to Portland in 2008.

Elizabeth teaches tango with an emphasis on breath, energy and posture to create connection in the dance. She brings her experience studying many forms of dance, as well as her training in yoga and human anatomy, to her teaching. Her main teachers in Buenos Aires have been: Luciana Valle and Chicho Frumboli for leader technique; Omar Vega for milonga; Tete for vals, and Oscar Mandagaran for breath, posture and energy work. Her dancing was also strongly influenced by the dancers of the Dinzel school. Her main teachers in the United States have been Oscar Mandagaran and Georgina Vargas, Luciana Valle and Daniel Trenner. She enjoys and teaches both close and open embrace styles, as well as dancing both as a leader and a follower.

[email protected]

541-914-4812

http://www.elizabethwartlufttango.com/blog/

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