Tango Dance World Championship in Asia

This is the 4th Tango Dance World Championship in Asia 2007.

This was the first time to hold the Championship in Asia in Big Hall for 2 days. We had about 120 participants in this Championship. I don't think I need to mention this, but it was the biggest Championship we ever had. For Jury, we had "History of Tango" Gloria & Eduardo, Gachi & Fernando, and Natalia & Fransisco, all top dancer in Buenos Aires right now. For the Band, Los Mareados, young Japanese musicians and yet top of Tango musicians in Japan has joined in the Milonga Live Party. For the demonstration, Top Asian Dancers were on the stage. Now our new Champions will be in Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires in Aug. The best in Asia will be there!!

■DATE：May 26 (Sat), 27 (Sun) 2007

■THEATER：U-PORT HALL GOTANDA

■PARTICIPANTES：Salon Tango 46 pairs
　　　　　　　　　　 Stage tango 14pairs

■AUDIENCE：26th 700 people / 27th 1300 people

■RESULT

STAGE TANGO
Champion Gyu & Lam "Mala Junta"

2nd place Leon y Maky "Gente Amiga"

3rd place Mikage & Arisa

4th place & Best Impression Special Prize Hiromi & Natsu

5th place & Toray Best Dresser Special Prize Aco & Yoshiko Mamada(Aco 22)

6th place Jorge & Rita

SALON TANGO
Champion SAE & JUAN

2nd place Jimmy y Yukarin

3rd place Kumi & Hiroemon

4th place & Gloria & Eduardo Special Prize Trevor & Lara (from Korea)

5th place Hitomi & Bernd

6th place Gyu & Lam

Best Couple Special Prize Maki y Toshi

Toray Best Dresser Special Prize reiko & kiuchi

■JURY：

JURY FROM ASIA (JURY IN QUARIFY ROUNDS AND SEMI-FINAL)
1．Yuko Susana Harada

2．Asuka Toyama

3．Akiyoshi Tanada

4．JOSE MARIA LUNA

5．ALVARO SALAS

6. JUAN GUIDA

Honored Jury：Embajador de Argentina in Japan Daniel Polski

JURY FROM ARGENTINE (JURY IN ALL ROUNDS)
7．EDUARDO ARQUIMBAU

8．GLORIA DE ARQUIMBAU

9．GACHI FERNANDEZ

10．FERNANDO SERRANO

11．NATALIA HILLS

12．FRANCISCO FORQUERA

■LIVE MUSIC：

Los Mareados(Naoko Aoki, Momoko Aida, Yuki Eto, Satoshi Kitamura, Jun Hayakawa, Kennji Higashitani)

■DANCE DEMONSTRATION：

Gloria & Eduardo, Gachi & Fernando, Natalia & Fransisco, Aya Sugimoto & Shingo, Ryo & Hazuki, Laura & Christian, Akiyoshi & Noriko Tanada

■THE PRESS：

Biglobe Strem (from June 22nd start broad casting!!), Fuji TV "Toku-Dane", NHK International, NHK News Watch 9, Dance View, Latina Magazine

【PRE-EVENT】

●GRAN MILONGA IN TOKYO@TOKYO KINEMA CLUB (MAR 4th, 2007)
Musicians: Orquesta Erica Di Salvo
Dancers: Soledad & Sergio, Gisera & Gaspar, Carlos & Diana, Ryo & Hazuki, Akiyoshi & Noriko Tanada, Tizuko & Sebastian, 3 sisters from Movie "Argentine-Babaa" Antique night club style Space with more than 500 people were in this Gran Milonga Party. The live music by Orquesta Erica Di Salvo and 7 couples of the best dancer in the world perfomed in the party.
●GRAN MILONGA IN NAGOYA@TOKEN HALL MARUNOUCHI (FEB 17th, 2007)
Dancers: Soledad & Sergio, Gisera & Gaspar, Carlos & Diana, As a pre-event of Chamoinship in Asia, this Gran-Milonga in Nagoya was held first. More than 200 people came to the Milonga Party.
●W.S. OF GLORIA & EDUARDO ORGANIZED BY TANGO SUIYOKAI @TED ART STUDIO (MAY 28th, 2007)
They are the History book of Tango. Gloria & Eduardo has always been in history of tango in their whole life. In 1972, Suiyokai held their first W.S., this is historical W.S. in Japan. To recognize what is tango, how great tango is, this is the best W.S. to be in!! ●W.S. OF Gachi & Fernando Organized by Gyu & Lam @Cuban Cafe in Tokiji (May 28th, 2007)
Now in Buenos Aires, she is the most popular Tango Dance Instructor, Gachi. This was the only chance to take her class in Japan. More than 100 young dancers came to the W.S.
■Tango Dance World Championship in BsAs:Aug 16th-26th, 2007