2026
September 2026
Friday 11 September 2026
Fri 11 Sep to Sun 13 Sep. Alchemy Club, 602 S Main Street, Gainesville. Miha Kim. Tango El Abrazo Milonga - [facebook][events]
Friday September 10
5:30 PM - Registration
6:00 - 7:15 PM - Workshop 1 (INT) - Giros. Turn Technique and Sequences: To the Right and To the Left
7:30 - 8:45 PM - Workshop 2 (INT) - Paradas. Casual and Dramatic Paradas de Frente and Adornments
Satirday September 11
1:30 PM - Registration
2:00 - 3:15 PM - Workshop 3 (INT) - Everyday Sacadas. For the Social Dance Floor
3:30 - 4:45 PM - Workshop 4 (BBC) - Beginner Boot Camp Workshop #1 of 2: Navigation Basics (How and Where to Walk in Tango)
4:45 - 7:45 PM - Dinner Break
7:45 - 9:00 PM - ALL levels Workshop 5 - Beginners welcome. Ochos. Torsion - How and Why We Use It
9:00 PM–12:00 AM - Milonga / Social Dance with Meredith Klein.
• Picadillo Empanadas $5
• snacks with the usual delicious charcuterie board
• BYO bottle or cup to care for the earth!
• Cafe on premises and across the street at Afternoon Coffee in South Main Station 7:30 am - 3 pm daily
• BYOB
Sunday September 12
1:30 PM - Registration
2:00 - 3:15 PM - Workshop 6 (INT) - Spectacular-Feeling Movements. That are Easy to Do
3:30 - 4:45 PM - Workshop 7 (BBC) - Beginner Boot Camp Workshop #2 of 2: Continuing on What We’ve Built - Basic Step and Ocho Cortado
4:45 - 6:45 PM - Guided Practica (FREE for Workshop participants)
Pricing and Passes
Discounts
• Teens — 50% off
• Students under 30 (with ID) — 20% off
• Alchemy Club Members — 10% off
• Gator Salsa Members — 10% off
• Pre-registration by September 1, 2026
Pre-Register via Venmo by Midnight Tuesday September 1, 2026
venmo.com/u/Miha-Kim-1
• 1 Workshop — $45
• SAT Milonga — $20
• SAT Pre-Milonga (All Levels) Workshop — $25
• SAT Milonga + Pre-Milonga Workshop — $45
• SUN Guided Practica — $15
• SAT Workshop Pass — $130
• SUN Workshop Pass — $90
• Full Weekend Pass (8 Workshops + Milonga + Practica) — $300
• Full Intermediate Weekend Pass (5 Workshops + Milonga + Guided Practica) — $200
• Full Beginner Boot Camp Pass (3 Workshops + Milonga + Guided Practica) — $125
At the Door (CASH ONLY)
• 1 Workshop — $50
• SAT Milonga — $25
• SAT Pre-Milonga (All Levels) Workshop — $30
• SAT Milonga + Pre-Milonga Workshop — $50
• SUN Guided Practica — $20
• SAT Workshop Pass — $155
• SUN Workshop Pass — $100
• Full Weekend Pass (8 Workshops + Milonga + Practica) — $355
• Full Intermediate Weekend Pass (5 Workshops + Milonga + Practica) — $235
• Full Beginner Boot Camp Pass (3 Workshops + Milonga + Practica) — $155
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?? Now available - additional private lessons on FRIDAY September 10!
Private lesson with Andres $125/hr
Private lesson with Meredith $125/hr
Private lesson with both Andres & Meredith $200/hr
We are grateful for another opportunity to welcome back Maestro Andres Amarilla and Maestra Meredith Klein! Start your tango experience within the community of dancers who love to embrace, dance with heart and learn foundational techniques that transform our bodies, mind and spirit.
We promote a safer dance spaces frame to make tango safe, welcoming, and inclusive for everyone, regardless of age, race, gender, sexuality, ability, experience, background, or other identifying features.
Join us for the milonga, a workshop, guided practica, Intermediate boot camp, our very FIRST BEGINNER BOOT CAMP (BBC) or spend the full weekend with us.
No partner needed
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Follow TangoBreakdown.com for Andres’ online classes.
Follow @Philadelphiatango for more incredible live music tango events, classes, workshops, milongas, practicas, BA tours and the annual (15th) memorial day weekend tango festival!
Artist Bios
Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Andres Amarilla began dancing tango in 1987 at age 11. While still a child, he studied with and performed in the dance companies of three of the greatest tangueros of all time: Gustavo Naveira, Juan Carlos Copes, and Rodolfo Dinzel. After 10 years of intensive immersion in the music, culture and movement of traditional Argentine Tango, Andres became part of a small group of young people seeking to push the limits of the traditional art form. Together, they analyzed and codified the movements, sequences and rules of traditional tango and began to play with the grammar of the tango language, thereby developing uncounted new sequences of movements, and giving birth to a new means of teaching, dancing and thinking about tango. This way of analyzing tango has become the basis of most good tango pedagogy in the world today.
A greatly sought-after teacher, Andres has taught in more than 70 cities worldwide, including Istanbul, Beirut, Warsaw, Gdansk, Moscow, Sydney, Brisbane, Belo Horizonte, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal, and New York, among many others. In 2008, Andres and his dance partner, Meredith Klein, founded the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School. Until Covid-19, Andres was splitting his year between Philadelphia and traveling to teach in other parts of the world.
andresamarilla.com/
www.philadelphiatangoschool.com/andres
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Meredith Klein has been dancing tango for 27 years, including three years spent living in Buenos Aires. Meredith directs the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School (since 2008), the Philadelphia Tango Festival (since 2010), Milonga Tours (offering tango tours of Buenos Aires for dancers since 2009), and the tango record label Bochinche Records (since 2023).
Before tango, Meredith came from a background in music, and has made it her life’s mission to help tango dancers and tango musicians understand each other a little better. Her Bochinche Records released Psicoporteño by Tipica Messiez in June 2023. The next year, Bochinche released La inevitable tentacion de ir a contramano by Sexteto Fantasma, which was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for “Best Tango Album.” On December 11, 2025, Bochinche released the first triple album in the history of tango, Icónico y Barrial by Orquesta Misteriosa Buenos Aires. Three albums are forthcoming in 2026.
Meredith has taught and performed with Andres Amarilla in more than 40 cities worldwide, including Istanbul, Sydney and Byron Bay (Australia), Gdansk and Brzeg (Poland), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Beirut (Lebanon), Nicosia (Cyprus), Vancouver and Montreal (Canada), and more than 30 cities in the United States.
Meredith has completed a Diploma in Tango at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She has also completed Dr. Madeleine Hackney’s Teacher Training in Adapted Tango Classes for Older Individuals and Those with Movement Disorders.
In July 2024, Meredith became one of very few foreigners in the world to be named an “Academic” of the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires, a program of the Argentine Ministry of Culture and Department of Education.
www.philadelphiatangoschool.com/meredith