La Tangueria

Week1: 25/07 > Saturday 01/08/20

• Teachers: Marisa van Andel & Oliver Koch (B) and Selva Mastroti & Marcelo Ramer (I).
• Additional neo-beginners group with teachers from La Tangueria (B).

Week 2: Sunday 02/08 > Sunday 09/08/20

• Teachers: Marisa van Andel & Oliver Koch (B) and Patricia Hilliges & Matteo Panero (I).
• Additional neo-beginners group with teachers from La Tangueria (B).

Venue

At the foot of the Italian Alps, the Lake Maggiore is a paradise for a dream vacation. Its surface of 212 km² offers enchanting and romantic landscapes to discover without delay.

One of the pearls of the lake is the characteristic small town of Baveno (Vb, Piedmont), which is famous for its precious pink granite used in several buildings around the world: the Arc de la Paix and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele of Milan, the columns from the Paris Opera House, Saint Charles Church in Vienna, Christopher Columbus Monument in New York and Bangkok’s Royal Palace…

The city of Milan (fashion capital) is located 80 km south, Brussels 870 km north. Baveno is easily accessible by car, train (Stresa) and plane. The nearest airport is Milano Malpensa (45 km).

Accommodation

In 2020 we will be back in the majestuous and historic Lido Palace Hotel**** in Baveno (Verbania, Piedmont). The tango travelers who have been following us for some time have kept a wonderful memory of our six successful editions from 2008 to 2013 and also in 2019 in this characteristic hotel with breathtaking views of the lake and the picturesque Borromeo islands. Also Queen Victoria, Sir Winston Churchill and Ray Charles were very pleased with their stay at this hotel.

For the classes and the milongas, the hotel proposes 2  bright, spacious rooms with terraces and lake views. The ceremonial hall – where most of the workshops and all the milongas take place – has a superb wooden floor. All rooms are equipped with a private bath or shower, air conditioning, satellite TV, WiFi and more than half of the rooms offer a stunning view of the lake.

The hotel is surrounded by a large colorful park with statues, flowers and exotic palms. It offers a swimming pool with sun loungers, umbrellas and towels, a tennis court, a ping pong table, a pool table and a gym. It also features a private beach on the lake right in front of the hotel and a  free parking behind the hotel.

Prices

The following prices are per person, based on 2 persons per room (except for the single rooms).

Standard room (3*) 3rd or 4th floor on the back side	785€ pp
Superior room (4*) 1st or 2nd floor on the back side	890€ pp
Extra charge front view on the lake	10€ pp/day
Extra charge view on the lake and balcony (front side only)	20€ pp/day
Extra charge single supplement (in a double room)	35€ pp/day
Child between 6 and 12 years in the room with 2 adults	50% of adult price
Child up to 5 years or pet in the room with 2 adults	free
Participants in the of neo-beginners group with 10h workshops	-50€ pp

NB: The number of rooms overlooking the lake and with balcony are limited. These are allocated at the time of the reservation.
The tourist tax of €1.50 per day is not included in the above prices.

Deposit to be paid within 4 weeks after booking to the organisation: 400€ pp. (350€ for neo-beginners group).
Deposit to be paid to the Hotel by bank transfer within 4 weeks after booking: 50% of the total price.
> Remaining to pay at the hotel by bank transfer at the latest 1 month before start of the holiday.

Cancellation fees:
– until 14 days after reservation: 25€ pp
– from 15 till 60 days after reservation: 50€ pp
– as of 2 months after reservation until June 15th: 75€ pp
– after June 15th: 50% of the reserved package
– after start of the holiday: the total amount is due, unless a last minute replacement can still be found.

Package

Included in the price are:

• The tango workshops with professional tango teachers at different levels:15 hours of lessons for the advanced groups with 2 couples of international renown teachers and 10 hours of lessons for the neo-beginners with teachers from La Tangueria.
• Seven evening milongas, sales of tango clothes and shoes.
• Hotel in half board for 7 nights in a double room with private bathroom (bath/shower) and toilet, hair dryer, air conditioning, TV, telephone, WIFI, mini bar, safe. The participants have free access to the private beach, the swimming pool, the garden chairs, the fitness centre, the dancing rooms.
• Breakfast (until 10h00) and buffet supper with typical Italian menu. For 7 evenings in the magnificent dining room with lake view reserved for the tango group, you will enjoy a varied buffet (vegetarian and not) with: first course, main course, side dishes, dessert. 1/4 L mineral water and 1/4 L wine per person are included in the price.
• Not included: trip/shuttle to the hotel (on request), lunches, extras (drinks, snacks…), local tourist tax to pay at the moment of departure (1,60€ pp per day).

Teachers

The organisers and permanent teachers are Marisa & Oliver from Brussels (both weeks). The guest teachers are in the first week Selva & Marcelo from Torino and the second week Patricia & Matteo from Firenze.

Marisa van Andel & Oliver Koch – Brussels/B, Al compás del corazón/La Tangueria
Saturday 25 July > Saturday 1 August  & Sunday 2 August > Sunday 9 August 2020.

After a career in the contemporary dance company Rosas, Marisa & Oliver have been working as a tango couple since 1996, giving workshops and exhibitions all over Europe as well as in the USA and Buenos Aires.They danced in different tango shows in The Netherlands and Belgium and they collaborated with outstanding artists, such as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jan Fabre, Hubert Damen, Dimitri Leue, Frank Groothof…
They have trained and inspired many of today’s professional tango teachers and dancers in Belgium and abroad. They were part of several international tango festivals and collaborate since 2005 with the Brussels Tango Festival as well as with the Brussels Tango Marathon. They also have vast experience in teaching in and organising tango holidays in Italy, France, Spain and Austria. Their tango school Al compás del corazón and their milonga in La Tangueria have become a reference for tango in Belgium and abroad.

 

Selva Mastroti & Marcelo Ramer – Torino/I, Proyecto Gricel
Saturday 25 July > Saturday 1 August 2020.

Thanks to many recommendations from pupils and colleagues, for the first time in 2016 we invited Marcelo & Selva as teachers for our tango holidays at Lake Maggiore.

They were born in Argentina, and learned the tango in adolescence, where they were trained in Buenos Aires with many of the great masters. They have been a couple for more than 17 years, and have worked worldwide for schools and festivals.

Marcelo & Selva currently live in Turin. Their lessons contained a lot of passion, they passed on their knowledge with spontaneity and simplicity. They start from the deepest roots of the tango, view all its facets, give the basis of technical and complex movements and never see the musicality and harmony within the couple. Given their success, we invite Selva & Marcelo again in 2020 to participate in our tango holidays.

 

Patricia Hilliges & Matteo Panero – Firenze/I, Tangoclub & Firenze Tango Festival
Sunday 2 August > Sunday 9 August 2020.
We have met this italo-German couple back in the nineties, at the beginning of our respective careers in the tango scene. In addition to our linguistic similarities, we have many more affinities with them and our friendship and esteem has grown with time.
Pat and Mat enrich their elegant tango de salón style with innovative elements, full of fantasy and musicality. They share the tango culture in an atmosphere of friendship and warmth, created through their good mood, their sense of humour, and their charisma.
They worked in several important international Tango Festivals in Italy and abroad and choreographed and danced several shows. Since 1999 ,Patricia & Matteo lead the “Tangoclub Firenze” and since 2002 they organize the International Firenze Tango Festival. They also have a sound experience teaching in tango holidays all over Europe.

 

Pour encore plus de plaisir lors des milongas et pour remplir complètement l’hôtel de danseurs de tango, chaque semaine il y aura un petit groupe supplémentaire de néo débutants (de 6 mois à 2 ans d’expérience en tango), avec un horaire adapté de 10 heures de cours donnée par un couple d’enseignants de La Tangueria Bruxelles (EN / FR).

 

Classes/Workshops

The lessons of Marisa & Oliver and the guest teachers are aimed at experienced tango dancers. A minimum 2 years of tango (lessons and practice) are required. The organizers will assess the level of the participants and divide them into 2 groups according to the level. The groups will often have lessons at the same time, so it is not possible to change groups or participate in multiple levels.
Each group will have a total of 10 workshops of 90 minutes (15 hours in total, equally taught by the 2 teaching couples: Marisa & Oliver and the guest teaching couple. 

There will be a variety of themes in the classes: tango de salón, tango fantasia, modern tango, vals and milonga. The classes will focus on technique, as well as on detailed refinements regarding posture, axis & balance, embrace, foot work, adornos, musicality, leading and following. Students will learn new movements, figures and sequences, but the main goal is to create a more harmonious, comfortable and enjoyable dance.

For Tango dancers with less than 2 years of tango experience there will be a special , small group. These participants have  8 workshops of 75 minutes, taught in English and French by experienced La Tangueria teachers. Provided they have fewer lessons, the price for the participants in this group is 50€ cheaper.

Tangodansers met minder dan 2 jaar tango-ervaring worden verenigd in een apart groepje. Deze deelnemers krijgen 8 workshops van 75 minuten gegeven in het Engels en Frans door ervaren La Tangueria-lesgevers. Mits ze minder lesuren hebben, is de prijs voor de deelnemers aan deze groep 50€ goedkoper.

The tango workshops are taught in 2 spacious dancing rooms, with terrace and and lake view. The main room on the ground floor has a beautiful parquet floor and the  class room on level -1 has a decent tile floor. Generally, the classes take place after breakfast and before dinner, and occasionally in the afternoon. Each group will have one full day without classes, to have time to explore the region.

A detailed programme of the classes will be sent to the participants about one month before the start of the holidays. The classes will be taught in English. The teachers also speak French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Italian…

Normally the lessons are reserved for the participants of the tango holiday. If, at the moment the holiday starts, there is room in certain groups, lessons can also be taken à la carte.

Milongas

Six evenings per week, there will be a milonga for all the participants together, in the beautiful dancing hall with sprung floor, big terrace and lake view. This year, because of Covid-19, unfortuntaley no special milonga can be organised during the week with a performance by the guest teachers and local tangueros being are also invited to this milonga.

This year also, no milongas are also open for outsiders of the tango holidays (after paying entry fee).

Shoes and clothes 

A stand of Tangolera tango shoes and  Rossa Spina tango clothes is present at the hotel during the holidays.

Singles

Registrations for the classes can only be done in couples. We try to help singles to find a partner by bringing them into contact with each other. Once registered as a dance couple, however, it is no longer possible to switch partners. So please verify that the relationship between the two dancers is good enough, before registering as a dance couple.

Those who want to find a partner can send an e-mail with age, height, level and languages or place an ad on the  facebook group.

Practical information

• Arrival is foreseen on Saturday 25 July or Sunday 2 August before dinner (19h00). Departure on Saturday 1 or Sunday 9 August after breakfast.
• For tango guests who want to arrive earlier or stay longer and for people who accompany dancers (spouses, children, babysitters …) we have negotiated a more favorable group price. To benefit of the discount price, reservations must be made via Marisa only, also for the non-dancers and the extra days. In exchange for the more favorable group price, a small commission will be charged for the organization. Book your extra days at the time of the reservation to benefit of the best conditions. Extra days are booked in Bed & Breakfast only. Dinner can be ordered and paid à la carte in the hotel.
  ATTENTION:  the possibilities to extend your stay after the first week or before the second week are limited because the departure day of the first group is the same as the arrival day of the second group.
• Also people who do not want to participate in the classes, but want to participate in the milongas only, can benefit of a discount group price. to stay in the hotel, by booking via Marisa only, subject to availability. Participants who take the full package of hotel + classes + milongas have priority.

Address and itinerary of the Hotel

Lido Palace Hotel Baveno
SS Sempione, 30
I-28831 Baveno (VB)
www.lidopalace.it
E-mail: info@lidopalace.com
Phone: +39 0323 92.44.44
Fax: +39 0323 92.47.44
Contact person: Paolo D’Amico
Airplane
Milano Malpensa – 45 km
Milano Linate – 90 km
Train
Line Cisalpina Milano/Genève – Station Stresa/Baveno

Route by car
From the north (Belgium, the Netherlands, France, etc): Go to the South via the Gotthard Tunnel (CH). Shortly after the exit of the tunnel (+/- 30 minutes), take exit 47 Bellinzona Sud/Locarno. Take the A13 Locarno Tenero, follow the road towards Ascona. Enter Italy, follow Cannobbio, Cannero Rivera, Ghiffa, Intra, Verbania, Baveno. Just past Baveno, on the road to Stresa, the Lido Palace Hotel is on your right hand side.

Bookings

All hotel reservations have to be made only via Marisa. Do not contact the hotel directly if you wish to benefit of the group prices or participate in the tango activities.

Registrations start exceptionally early this year: on November 5, 2019. To reserve your tango holidays, please send the complete details of both dancers, the chosen dates and the preferred level to Marisa (NL, FR, EN, DE, IT, ES) via info@tangueria.be. be. Phone: +32 479 22 86 98.
NB. Only in July and August you can also reach us by this Italian telephone number is: +39 333 48 75 822.

Questions?

Do you have questions or a special request? Mail to info@tangueria.be or call us at +32 (0) 479 22 86 98.