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The Yale Tango Fest is offered with support from the Yale Graduate and Professional Student Senate and the
Office of Student Life at the McDougal Center
Registration
FREE Total Beginners Class offered by the GPSS to
FREE Total Beginners Class offered by the GPSS to
Yale Graduate and Professional students:
AVAILABLE: click here
AVAILABLE: click here
Yale Tango Fest passes, classes and ALL THE MILONGAS: SOLD OUT
Please do not show up without pre-registration!
We will not sell tickets at the door.
Please do not show up without pre-registration!
We will not sell tickets at the door.
Registration small print:
Registrations are accepted online only.
Payment methods: credit or debit card, or paypal. Sorry we cannot accept cash, checks or money orders. After you sign up, make sure you get
(1) an email copy of the registration form you just filled out, at the email you listed (.edu address for students)
(2) a receipt from paypal.
If you do not receive (2), verify that your payment is reflected on your bank account. If your payment did not go through, please try again. We cannot reserve your spot without your payment.
If your attendance depends on air travel arrangements falling into place, please email us before signing up. We can hold your spot for a few days until your tickets are confirmed.
Student discounts
To claim your discount, please use your @school.edu email address to sign up. We will communicate with you via this address only. A student is a full-time undergraduate, graduate, professional or high school student with a valid ID in a full-time program at a recognized degree-granting institution. Part-time doesn't count, neither does continuing education, language school, or just graduated. We will use various methods to check your status, including but not limited to checking your valid student ID when you pick up your pass. If you are not sure your situation qualifies, please consult us before making a payment. Don't just sign up hoping for the best, because we might cancel your registration if we find anything amiss. The reason we have to be so strict is that a large majority of our participants get a student discount; sadly your friendly organizers don't get half price on the expenses incurred for putting on an event like this.
Refund policy
Up to March 23, 8pm (18 days before the Fest) you can get a refund of the full amount minus 20% or a flat $20 (whichever is less) for the hassle.
Up to March 30, 8pm (11 days before the Fest) you can get a 50% refund.
Less than 11 days we cannot issue a refund because it is unlikely that we can sell your spot to somebody else.
Spot transfers
If you can't come, you may transfer your spot to a person of the same level and gender, or another level and gender if such spots are still available. If you transfer your student spot to a non-student, they have to pay the difference before the transfer can be confirmed. If you are a non-student transferring to a student, any refund of the difference is subject to the refund policy above. We can accept a spot transfer only when notified by the original registrant from the email he/she originally used to sign up and pay.
Before you decide on classes, please read this:
Please choose classes appropriate to your skill level Our Fest schedule will have classes for Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Intermediate-Advanced and Advanced levels. Please read the skill descriptions below or ask your teachers for advice. We may ask your teacher for an evaluation of your readiness for the classes you choose.
We reserve the right to substitute classes on your class schedule if the classes you chose are full, or if you chose classes inappropriate to your experience level. If we change your classes because of the level, we will first invite you to choose different classes; if you do not, we will change them for you. When we have to change the classes for you because of level, you have the opportunity to cancel your registration within 3 days of receiving notice of the changes, and receive a refund.
In the unlikely event that you should refuse to accept the changes, we will cancel your registration promptly and make a full refund. If at the start of class time your skills are found to be below the required level, you will be removed from the class by the teacher or the organizers. The reasons we do this include: (1) a class should be a learning experience and if you struggle too much it can't be a learning experience, (2) the teachers should be able to divide their attention among the students equally without spending all their time on the below-level stragglers and (3) other participants have a right not to be slowed down or tortured as a consequence of one participant's inflated sense of their own skill.
The following are just one interpretation of the levels that our Yale students can relate to. Please note that the levels we have in mind are calibrated to the national festival scene. An advanced class or two does not an advanced dancer make.
An advanced dancer has several years of dancing (classes and milonga) under their belt and have traveled extensively across the country for tango attending multiple festivals. They know several ganchos, colgadas, volcadas, boleos and tons of small steps, and they rarely get involved in floorcraft incidents.
Intermediate dancers typically have 1 or 2 years, sometimes a bit less if they take classes religiously every week, or are unusually talented. These dancers travel to big cities like New York and Boston for milongas and classes regularly. They can do turns in both directions and of any length, as well as basic boleos and ganchos, and they are on the music no matter what happens. They have enough small steps to bore neither their partner nor themselves.
Pre-intermediate dancers can do left turns, ocho cortado, basic milonga steps, and enough small steps to tie it all together, and they are on the beat even if they don't pull off a masterful interpretation of the subtleties of the violin solo. Their lead is clear and comfortable, and their follow is precise enough not to mess up a simple sequence. The followers are responsive and not heavy, and the lead is determined, not hesitant. Followers never miss a cross!
Recent graduates from beginners classes are beginners if they are still getting the kinks out of the basic material, and advanced beginners if they are reasonably fluent with it. They are still working primarily on the walk, posture, balance, lead and follow (actually everybody always needs more work on this, but they might not all realize it). Attending pre-intermediate classes at the Fest will be plenty challenging!
The Yale Tango Fest is put together for the fun and enjoyment of our students and all our guests. Signing up for participation constitutes an agreement to pursue fun without interfering with everybody else's pursuit of fun. Indeed, so far we have only had participants who enhance everybody else's fun! But we have to say this: anybody found to be disruptive of the peace and the fun, or who engages in the definite no-no of (gasp!) consuming alcoholic beverages at the Fest locations on campus where we have under-21 tango friends in attendance, will be ininvited and/or asked to leave.
We look forward to dancing with you!