Pulpo and Luiza’s perspectives on their 2005 festival.

Q: Did you feel that the festival was a success?

El Pulpo: The students said that they loved how they were treated. People felt very welcome and kept telling us how happy and satisfied they were. .. that they lived a dream. One student, who has attended many festivals, commented that our week was her favorite because of the environment, the attention she received from the professors and staff, and the scheduling of the events. I was also very happy with the venues. Dandi had all the facilities... air conditioning, food, beautiful design....
and I loved where we had our milongas, El Bandoneon, which is now called La Patri-otica.

Luiza: Yes... it fulfilled our main goal, which was a celebration of friendship and an event where we could have mainly people that we like and have good energy around us.

Q: What was your favorite moment?

El Pulpo: Rock and Roll - my party with 400 people - when all the teachers danced to rock and roll. “I’m here for the party”! was the cortina.

Luiza: the birthday party - when the teachers starting dancing to ACDC and the cakes, confetti etc.

Q: What would you change next year?

El Pulpo: Delegate and coordinate more next year so that Luiza and I feel a little less stress. We want a festival with a “youthful” spirit - not necessarily young people. We realized that we want a staff that has presence, is willing to take more responsibilities, but can also be joyful and playful.

Luiza: For me, shorter classes, maybe have only 3 classes a day.

Q: Was there a moment of Tension?

El Pulpo: The first day.
Luiza: The first party was tense because it was the beginning. We took too much re-sponsibility on ourselves.

Q: What made you laugh most?

El Pulpo: My birthday party... I felt like I was in a dream.

Luiza: The last day when everyone was exhausted, I was talking to Paul Marshall dur-ing our class and I mentioned that people were so tired that they weren’t working on what we were teaching. I ran up to each couple to show Paul and we both started laughing. Q: Who will be here next year?

Tara and Nick
Dana and Pablo
Zoraida and Diego
Juan and Gimena
Jose Garafalo
Giggio and Luciana
Gato and Andrea
Luiza and I
and many more.and the DJs will be Tango Negro Jorge Gonzalez and Jackie Ling Wong.Special Thanks
El Pulpo: Maestros Gloria y Rodolfo Dinzel, Jorge Gonzalez, Maximiliano Jahnel, Al-berto Rabinovich, to the assistants, and to Jorge Waisburg

Luiza: and to Johanna, Cecilia, Flor, Jorge y Eduardo from Dandi, Tango Pulse (Paul and you), and Clay Nelson for supporting us.

El Pulpo: Luiza and I would like to invite all of you reading this interview to next year’s festival which will be even more memorable. We’ll Rock and Roll your tango!