Tango Dance World Championship in Asia

This is the 3rd Tango Dance World Championship in Asia 2006.

This year, the championship got bigger than ever!! biggest numebers of Audience, Participants and demonstrations. Total 1300 of audience, 55 pairs of participants and demonstrations by Leonel & Yuki, Jose Luna & Laura, Ryo & Hazuki, Sergio & Loredana, and Gloria & Eduardo. The 4th Championship is comming next year and will be bigger for sure!!

■DATE：6/3, 4/2006

■THEATER：TAKESHIBA NEW PIER HALL IN TOKYO

■PARTICIPANTES：Salon Tango 36 pairs
　　　　　　　　　　 Stage tango 22pairs

■AUDIENCE：6/3 500 PEOPLE 6/4 800 PEOPLE

■RESULT

STAGE TANGO
★CHAMPION：AKIYOSHI & NORIKO TANADA　
●LOS MAREADOS ★2nd：Lam & Gyu

●MAR DE AMORES 3rd：George & Rita

●CHIQUE BEST DRESSER PRIZE：MIKAGE＆ARISA

●DERECHO VIEJO ORIGINALITY PRIZE：Yuka y Masa
●LOS MAREADOS BEST IMPRESSION PRIZE：Keunhyung&Venus

●NOCHERO SOY
SALON TANGO
★CHAMPION：Hiro & Miho

★2nd：Hiroshi & Kyoko

3rd：MASA & CHIEKO

BEST DRESSER PRIZE：ROBERTO JUN

BEST IMPRESSION PRIZE：DERRICK & AGNES

EDUARDO PRIZE：Ana y Koji

■JURY：

JURY FROM ASIA (JURY IN QUARIFY ROUNDS AND SEMI-FINAL)
1．KOZO MIURA (President of NAPTA)

2．YUKO HARADA(Harada Dance Group)

3．JOSE MARIA LUNA (Luna de Tango Company)

4．ALVARO SALAS (Tango Imperio)

5. JUAN GUIDA (TANGO XXI)

6. RYO IKEMOTO (Alma de Tango Academy)

JURY FROM ARGENTINE (JURY IN ALL ROUNDS)
7．GABRIEL SORIA (Vice-President of Argentine Natinal Tango Academy)

8．EDUARDO ARQUIMBAU (Chairman)

9．GLORIA DE ARQUIMBAU

10．SERGIO CORTAZZO

11．LOREDANA DE BRASI

HONORARY JURY：Argetine Ambassador to Japan DANIEL POLSKI

■LIVE MUSIC：

KYOTANI CUARTETO TANGO, ORQUESTA TANGO WASEDA

■DANCE DEMONSTRATION：

RYO & HAZUKI, LEONEL & YUKI, JOSE LUNA & LAURA

■SPECIAL DANCE DEMO：

GLORIA & EDUARDO, LOREDANA & SERGIO

【PRE-EVENT】

■THE 3rd TANGO DANCE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN ASIA, GRAN MILONGA 2006

TOKYO　3/21/2005 TAKESHIBA NEW PIER HALL
NAGOYA　 3/19/2005 AICHI GEIJUTSU GEKIJO

The 1st World Champion, Gisera & Gaspar, the 3rd World Champion German and Carolina, and the welknown finest, Roberto & Lucila, Ryo & Hazuki, George & Rita, Akiyoshi & Noriko Tanada, Christian & Rika. All of them were in 1 milonga!! With live musc perfomance by Fabio Hager & Tango del Sur.