CHICAGO MINI TANGO FESTIVAL

 April 14-17, 2011

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Chicago native Derrick Del Pilar took his first tango steps in Buenos Aires in 2006. After half a year's immersion in the birthplace of tango, he returned to the University of Arizona and began to dance locally, and also attend festivals around the country. After completing his B.A. in Creative Writing and Spanish Literature, he spent two years in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he earned an M.A. in Latin American Studies (with a focus on 20th century Argentina) from Berkeley, and also managed to dance almost every night in one of the U.S.A.'s largest and most diverse tango communities.

As a DJ, Derrick strives to fulfill two promises: to the dancers, to pull them out of their seats with thoughtfully arranged tandas; and to the Golden Age musicians, to let their music shine with the best fidelity recordings available. He has kept people dancing at popular venues in the Arizona, L.A., the Bay Area, and also in his hometown at the 2010 Chicago Mini Tango Festival. You can read Derrick's translations of Golden Age tango lyrics and listen to the best dance versions at http://poesiadegotan.wordpress.com.