The Tango Center

... in downtown Eugene

The Tango Center
194 West Broadway
Eugene, Oregon
97401

The Tango Center closed on 6-30-2009.


Thanks to everyone for everything ... keep in mind what we accomplished downtown! Stay inspired!

The Tango Center on Youtube.


Stay tuned to the event calendar for announcements of new dances around Eugene.

This site is a calendar for events and classes dedicated to the music and dance of Argentine Tango, in Eugene, Oregon. Come back often!

It is also a celebration of the six-year run of the most extraordinarily public Tango experiment of the 21st century, (outside of Buenos Aires).

New to Argentine Tango?
Over 10,000 people were introduced to Tango through The Tango Center's Introduction to Tango from Zero class, which was every Saturday at 8pm, part of the all-ages, no partner necessary, affordable dance: The Big Milonga (Argentine Tango Social Dance). During its run, it was the largest weekly Milonga in the Northwest. It was certainly the largest Milonga in the US focused on inviting the outside world to come in and participate. It was a unique urban revitalization effort, intended to give the City a dream-like night spot, a place for the whole community, a place where the "audience" was the talent, and people learned to improvise together, through this gentle social dance.


The Tango Center: A non-profit community center, dedicated to the music and dance of Argentine Tango.


Eugene's Tango Instructors

Resident instructors:
Vicky Ayers
Charles Augustine
Greg Bryant
Greg Estes
Liz Foster
Marisela Rizik
Rick Roman
Jacob Talbot
Jeanine VanSise

Former resident instructors:
Elizabeth Wartluft
Max Kepler
Andrew Dugas
Rebecca Rorick Smith
Evan Griffiths
Carmela Hill-Burke
Ev Marcel
Andrew McCollough

Eugene's Tango Musicians
Social Dance in Eugene
Tango:
Eugene Tango
The Tango Center
Tango Center YouTube Channel
The etango announcement e-mail list on Yahoo
To Subscribe, if you do not want a Yahoo! account, write to:

The Tango Center's Facebook Group
The Tango Center's Flickr page
UO Argentine Tango Club
Ev Marcel
Marisela Rizik
Marisela's Carpe Diem Tango E-mail Newsletter
Andrew McCollough
Deprecated etango list
Ari's Eugene Milonga site

Salsa:
http://www.eugenesalsa.com
http://www.salseros.com/
http://www.salsamora.com/
http://www.northwestsalsadancenews.com/
Studios:
http://www.tangocenter.org
Robert Alexander Schwartz's Studio B
Eugene Folklore Society:
http://www.efn.org/~efs/
Swing:
http://www.eugenelindy.com
Swing with Drew & Catherina
http://www.68swing.com/
EFS swing list
http://www.thejointisjumpin.com/
eugene swing yahoo group
More Calendars:
Register Guard Ticket
Eugene Weekly
Social Dance Map
Contra dances:
http://www.efn.org/~efs/dances.html
Ballroom:
University of Oregon Ballroom
Dancesport
Dance bands:
Mood Area 52
Vendors:
Dancer's Closet
Eugene-based Backstage Dancewear and Shoes
Shoe Repair:
Sole Savers
Parking:
Google Map of Downtown Parking
Parking downtown permits
Our favorite downtown salon:
Ami de Paris

Tango in Oregon
Downtown Eugene

We are part of an alliance of people and organizations who have revitalized West Broadway in downtown Eugene. We've done everything: we even experimented with a Weekday Market.

We recommend Downtown Eugene links:

The Downtown Eugene Blog

The Tango Center was a critical part of the Downtown Revitalization now in place ... actually saving the downtown from destruction, in cooperation with many colleagues, in the 2007 ballot measure that stopped the city from funding the destruction with 'Urban Renewal' funding. In the process of shutting down with much publicity in 2009,  the building was sold to a different non-profit, which is preserving the building:

Lord Leebrick Theatre

About Us

The Tango Center
2003 - 2009


Greg Bryant
Co-founder
Executive Director Emeritus
Webmaster


Olga Volchkova
Co-founder
Art Director Emerita


Evan Griffiths
Artistic Director Emeritus

Rebecca Rorick Smith
Artistic Director Emerita

Andrew Dugas
Artistic Director Emeritus

Rebecca Oswald
Music Director Emerita

Rhonda Kalista
General Manager Emerita

Adrienne Black
Operations Director Emerita

Yifang Qian
Event Manager Emerita

Elizabeth Foster
Events Manager Emerita

PRESS Coverage:

Life@OSU
The Tango Center Blog

About the Last Dance
Buy Last Tango Photo

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