14th Philadelphia Tango Festival: May 22-25, 2026

💃🖤 The Philadelphia Tango Festival is back! 🖤💃

Join us Memorial Day Weekend — Friday, May 22 through late night Monday, May 25 for the 14th Philadelphia Tango Festival!

✨ What’s happening:

• Tango workshops for all levels
• Live music & concerts 🎶
• Lectures & dance performances
• Social dancing (milongas!)
• Argentine café 🍷🥟
• Vendors with beautiful tango shoes & clothing

👣 New to tango? Our Beginner Track (4 progressive classes) will have even first-timers dancing by the end of the weekend!

🙌 Not a dancer? No problem. Enjoy concerts, talks, delicious Argentine food, and more. There’s truly something for everyone.

🌍 Proud to be part of World Heritage Month, organized by the Global Philadelphia Association.

📍 Save the date & spread the word!
📍 Details & registration at www.philadelphiatangofestival.com

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Philadelphia Tango Festival: Information for Beginners

4-Class Beginner Track

The Philly Tango Festival is, hands-down, the best time of the year to start dancing tango. We offer a 4-class Beginner Track to get you up and dancing during the festival.

No previous experience or partner is required. We rotate partners throughout the workshops. Students are encouraged to learn and practice both roles: leader and follower.

We are thrilled to have wonderful dancers and extraordinary pedagogues, Pablo Garcia Gomez & Iwona Ionescu, teaching the beginner track at this year’s festival.

Each session blends structure, connection, musicality, and improvisation:

Friday, May 22, 3:15-4:30 pm: Tango Foundations & First Steps
Saturday, May 23, 12-1:15 pm: The Dynamic Embrace & Growing Your Tango Vocabulary
Sunday, May 24, 12-1:15 pm: Sustaining Expressive Movement; Transitions and Changes of Direction
Monday, May 25, 12-1:15 pm: A Joyful Flow

Beginner Pass

While you can purchase the four beginner track classes alone, please consider instead purchasing the Beginner Pass. It’s the best deal of the festival, and is only available to people who have been dancing one year or less.

The Beginner Pass includes:

• 4 Beginner Workshops
• 4 Milongas (social dances with live music and dance performances)
• 3 Practicas (informal social dances for practicing)
• 1 Lecture
• 4 Concerts
• 3 Workshops on Argentine folkloric music and dances (hint: these dances are a lot easier than tango and you can become proficient very quickly)

PRICING

Beginner Pass: $180 (see below)
Beginner Track: $100 (all 4 workshops)
Single Beginner Track Workshop: $40

A complete list of pricing for all Festival Passes & Individual Workshops, Concerts, Lectures and more is available on the festival website: Pricing & Passes

Full-time students with ID are welcome to use the code FTstudent to receive 20% off their order.

We also offer free entrance through work exchange. Please complete our volunteer form to express your interest.

📍 Details & registration at www.philadelphiatangofestival.com