PRICING

You do not need a partner to sign up. We will role-balance the classes so that everybody always has a partner to dance with.

We will rotate partners, but you may stay with your own partner if you prefer.

In the event more leaders or more followers sign up for a particular level/day, we may have to temporarily suspend or close registration for the overrepresented role for that class.

We recommend partners to sign up at the same time while the class is still open for both roles, in order to avoid one of them being locked out of a class.

Once a class is full for your role, it really is full: you can no longer sign up for it regardless of whether or not you have a partner.

There is a 24 hour grace period in the following situation: as long as one partner signs up before the class is closed to the other role and puts the other partner’s name in their form, and the other partner signs up and pays less than 24 hours after the first partner, you will both be assured of a spot.

If you test positive with COVID or have cold symptoms, please be responsible and stay home. Send in a PCR test and we will be happy to roll over your credit fully to a future event. If a friend wants to take over your spot, please write to Mariela and we will adjust the registration. You must write from the email you used for registration.

Health:
Please stay home if you have a positive test or cold symptoms (see cancellation policy for details).

We thank each and every one of you for helping Abrazos Tango Festival to be a healthy, safe, and memorable experience. Masks are optional but not required, however we recommend that those traveling take extra precautions with masks and tests to avoid getting sick.

Vaccination 
We require participants to be fully vaccinated. Official vaccination document to be submitted on the registration form. Your registration is not valid without vaccine documentation in your name. Thank you.

Testing
For everyone’s safety and peace of mind, we will require testing in one of 2 ways:

– A PCR test within 48 hours from the initial check-in.

OR

– A RAPID TEST within 24 hours of check-in. If the rapid test is done at home, a selfie of yourself next to the negative result and a proper photo time stamp (eg against screen with today’s newspaper with date) will need to be submitted. BRING your TEST RESULT and ID when you come to check in at the door.

Your warm embraces and bright smiles! Beyond that we just ask that you please bring a reusable water bottle to help cut down on plastic cups! There will be a full bar on premise, so please no BYOB.

Please exercise reasonable caution during your stay in NYC. As with other large cities, there has been an uptick in crime. There is no cause for undue alarm, but we want to remind those from out of town to pay attention to your surroundings while out and about in the city. Late at night we recommend walking with others to the train if possible.

The Invitation
The invitation to dance comes by way of eye contact. It is a polite, subtle and secret question between the potential partners.
The leader makes eye contact to gauge the follower´s interest; the follower responds in one of two ways: either with her eyes and a slight nod of the head to indicate she accepts, or with a polite look away that says “no” while it also keeps open the possibility of a future invitation; if the invitation is accepted from a distance, the leader should walk around the dance floor, make a more formal invitation, and introduce himself.

A tanda is a full set of dances, usually 4; it is broken by a cortina, which is then followed by another tanda, and so on. As a leader, if you are a stranger to a potential dance partner whom you would nonetheless like to ask for a dance, you might eait for the third tango in the tanda, so that you will be obliged only to two dances before the cortina. Similary, as a follower, if you don´t wish to dance full set, avoid eye contact until the third tango of a tanda.

The Dance
During the dance, allow your partner to determine the distance of the embrace, and you will look find a mutually comfortable one.

Never “teach” your partner anything during a milonga!

When you don´t want another dance, say “thank you” politely.

If you intend to dance another tanda, it´s a good idea to create conversation during the cortina, while you wait on the dance floor for the next set.

Remember you´re dancing for both you partner and you, for your mutual pleasure.

Communicate through the dance, never with verbal language. Speak tango!

Given the uncertain nature of these times, we reserve the right to replace artists as needed. 

Any cancellations will be announced as soon as possible, and great care will be taken to bring another amazing artist to work with us in their place.