The 2026 Tango 8 Fest programme runs September 23–27 in Toronto and brings together international tango maestros, DJs, workshops, performances, practicas and social dancing. Use the day-by-day schedule below to plan your workshops and milongas. Workshop codes identify each teaching couple, while starred sessions are open without gender-balance requirements. The programme may be updated as the festival approaches, so check this page again before travelling.
SJ Suyay & Jonny
YE Yanina & Emmanuel
V Virginia Pandolfi
BL Bulent & Lina
Workshops with ★ No gender balance required.
** Schedule and workshop titles subject to change without prior notice.
8.15 - 9.30pm • BL1
Mini Volcada for the Social floor
5.00 - 6.15pm • SJ 1
★ Biomechanics and Techniques of Suyay & Jonny: Everything you need for beautiful walks and turns
6.15 - 7.30pm • V 1
★ Your questions answered. The powerhouse of your body, placement of axis & control to maintain connection with partner during walk & other movements.
7.30 - 8.45pm • YE 1
Special seminar: Tango as a shared poem. The secret of communication with embrace, timing, action / reaction of both roles to create beautiful and connected walk and turns/ochos.
9.00 - 1.00am OPENING MILONGA
DJ IVAN, Ottawa
10.45pm Show by Bulent & Lina
Welcome dance of all Maestros
5.00pm - 6.15pm • YE 2
Unlimited creativity & possibilities in small space: Infinite Barridas and small tricks. How to personalize movement to a protagonist of your own dance.
6.15pm - 7.30pm • SJ 2
For Advanced dancers :
Rethinking and analyzing opportunities using basic steps
7.30 - 8.45pm • SJ 3
Analyzing the possibilities to create impact by framing and over pivots of lead & follow
7.30 - 8.45pm • V 2
★ 7.30 - 8.45pm • V 2 ★
Embrace Seminar: Improving your embrace to create inner space to achieve freedom of your expressions (For Leaders and Followers)
5.00 - 7.00pm Afternoon Practica . DJ Tu Duong
9.00 - 3.00am (or later if you keep dancing) Grand 8 MILONGA & + All Night Milonga
DJ SEBASTIAN, Chicago + DJ STEVEN, Rochester
11.45pm : Show by Yanina Muzyka & Emmanuel Casal
1.30 - 2.45pm • V 3
★ Circular movements and dynamics: How to use the body to generate volume and reaction in ochos and turns
1.30 - 2.45pm • SJ 4
1.30 - 2.45pm • SJ 4 | Musical patterns for social floor. Understanding how to apply rhythmic patterns in certain parts of the music
3.00 - 4.15pm • SJ 5
Special Milonga Seminar: Special Milonga Seminar: MILONGA Seminar: crosses, kicks and voleos.
3.00 - 4.15pm • YE 3
Small and fun Colgadas that works for the social floor
4.15 - 5.30pm • YE 4
Breaking down moulinette, enrosque and gancho. Take your power and dynamics, onto the next level. (Advanced only)
5.30 - 6.45pm • YE 5
VALS: Functional chain sequences, the circularity and techniques
4.00 - 7.00pm Sunny Room Milonga
9.00 - 3.00am (or later if you keep dancing)
Grand 8cho Milonga + ALL night Milonga
DJ IVAN, Ottawa
11.45pm : Show by Suyay Quiroga & Jonny Carvajal
1.30 - 2.45pm • V 4
★ The different engines of your body for a variety of movements in Tango and how to apply them correctly.
1.30 - 2.45pm • YE 6
Creativity in improvisation with unconventional Paradas, with enjoyable ornaments, Ganchos etc. that function in the ronda.
3.00 - 4.15pm • V 5
★ Expressions in your dance. Musicality and embellishment drills
3.00 - 4.15pm • YE 7
Dynamic and axis changes: when and how to use elasticity and playing with axis for speed changes.
4.15 - 5.30pm • SJ 6
Breaking down the linear and circular combinations of Giro and Sacadas to create special sequences
5.30pm - 6.45pm• SJ 7
Special Seminar
A bit of Tango History and Tribute: Signature of old milongueros vs modern Tango
4.00 - 6.30pm Sunny Room Milonga
DJ STEVEN, Rochester
9.00pm - 1.30am (or later if you keep dancing)
TANG . 8 . OVER Milonga
DJ JEAN SEBASTIEN, Montreal
TECHNIQUE SERIES
MUSICALITY SERIES
IMPROVISATION FOR SOCIAL FLOOR