The International Argentine Tango Festival, in which hundreds of dancers from more than 20 countries will participate, will be held in Sarajevo from February 1 to 4 this year, organized by the Astra Dance Club.
Within the framework of the fourth festival, four night and three daytime milongas (dance days and dance evenings) will be held, where participants will have the opportunity to dance Argentine tango with music that will be chosen and played for them by tango DJs from Hungary, Sweden, BiH, of Turkey and Serbia.
The world champion in Argentine Tango and Salsa, and the founder and organizer of the festival, Vedran Marceta, announced that participants will have the opportunity to improve their dancing skills at the workshops of world-famous tango teachers – Fausto Carpino and Stephanie Fesneau (France/Italy), Gianpiero Galdi and Lorena Tarantino from Italy, and Sercan Yigit and Zeynep Aktar from Turkey
“In Sarajevo, we expect tango dancers from all over the world; Argentina, France, Italy, Turkey, England, Japan, Hungary and of course from the whole region, who will enrich the festival program on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening with their magical tango performances,” said Marceta.
This year, the festival brings all the abundance of tango content, the orchestra Beltango Quinteto, an authentic tango orchestra from the Balkans, which will perform live on the final evening of the festival on February 4, and in addition to traditional tango pieces and authentic songs, they will also perform compositions by Astor Piazzolla.
The Beltango Quintet has held more than a thousand concerts in 30 countries around the world during its quarter of a century of existence.
Tango originated in Argentina at the end of the 19th century as a social dance in the poor port districts of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. At the beginning of the 20th century, it arrived in Europe and soon became an international sensation. Today, in almost all parts of the world there are tango communities whose members spend their free time dancing tango at organized dance evenings.
In 2009, tango was included in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The Astra Dance Club has been organizing dance projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina for many years, such as the Sarajevo Salsa Congress, the Austrian Ball, Summer Tango events and others, promoting Sarajevo as an attractive location for new visitors and dancers who are always happy to return.
