

Encuentro
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”
— Wayne Dyer
Encuentro Porteño VI: 14th – 18th of May 2020
A meeting of international dancers with Latino hearts to share the vibrant energy of Encuentro Porteño VI in Amsterdam. 7 Argentinian and International DJ’s create an exceptional tango-synergy during seven milongas in four days.
Looking forward to meeting you there!!
Facebook group
If you like your friends to be at Encuentro Porteño please let us know. We are very much in favor of a group of great dancers that grows gradually from our friends to friends of friends and who all embrace and enjoy tango no less then to the limit.
Encuentro Porteño • Amsterdam
Encuentro
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”
— Wayne Dyer
Encuentro Porteño VI: 14th – 18th of May 2020 CANCELLED
Like everywhere in the world also in the Netherlands we are confronted with the consequences of the Corona virus. Last week the government took the decision that all events planned before June 1st are canceled. It hurts to inform you officially that Encuentro Porteño from 14-18 May will not take place. While everything is on hold, we are united in the concern to stay healthy ourselves and the circle around us. Its the bigger picture that counts now. We eagerly look forward to the moment that we are able to think further into the future. We stay in touch. All guests of Encuentro Porteño May 14-18 will be personally informed by mail. Wishing each of you a good health.
Warm greetings,
Corine

MEMORIES OF EARLIER EDITIONS
Impressions of last year by Marta Kossakowska © hrum.nl
(Click on images/albums for more)
Back home, struggling to return to ‘real life’, after this unforgettable days in Amsterdam! Thank you so much, for the outrageous, gorgeous, overwhelming encuentro!… Since the first minutes, we felt a powerful atmosphere! Beautiful venue, great music, lovely embraces, the details, the empanadas and the brave surprise on Saturday, created a unique tango experience! Buenos Aires was indeed in Holland these days! Already looking forward for next year!
Lucena (Lisbon)DesignerMi primera experiencia en un encuentro muy buena onda las organizadoras musicalizadores y publico en general gente muy linda y me gusto como se baila gracias Corine por tu cariño y confianza y por invitarnos a tocar nuestra música.salud!!!!
Ricardo Herrera (Buenos Aires)DesignerTe agradezco infinitamente la hospitalidad y ese clima de afecto y alegría que produce tu presencia y forma de relacionarnos tan simple y profunda. Me divertí muchísimo en tu Raduno y espero repetirlo. Mi siempreabrazo a vos y mi agradecimiento por tu amistad.
Julian Althabe (Buenos Aires)DesignerYou made a dream come true. Multiple dreams I suppose. Gracias! Plus some unexpected wonders. Y qué milongueras!
Carlos (Amsterdam / Argentina)DesignerUn superbe encuentro avec une belle identité. Merci pour ce bel évènement et merci à toutes les danseuses et danseurs pour votre accueil!
David (Nimes)DesignerAgain. again, again – let’s repeat this! Even dancing afterwards felt better, more friendly and relaxed. I think this was not mainly effect of having had some vine, but of the nice contact.
Matthias (Germany)Designer
Thanks to everybody who came and dance in our hometown, it was soooo nice to have all here!! I am happy!!Eeke (Amsterdam)DesignerGrazie CORINNE per quello che mi Hai dato è fatto vivere un tango olandese fatto di fiori ciao
Massimo (Italy)DesignerI woke up this morning from a wonderful dream… Dank u wel voor de hartelijke ontvangst!!! MERCI BEAUCOUP!!!
Emilie Calabrese (Paris)DesignerThanks for a tremendously well organised and enjoyable Encuentro. One of the best I’ve been to. Big thanks to you and the rest of the team!
Anders Larsson (Sweden)DesignerThank you so much for this first encuentro in Amsterdam, great organization, great DJs, great dancers, great city….I discover a part of Amsterdam that I have never seen…..north of Amsterdam in particular with its atypical restaurant’s places…..I like! …….see you soon, abrazo
François (France)DesignerAmsterdam was glowing … and my heart still does
Henning (Germany)DesignerWell THAT settles THAT – next life….pole dancer! Thank you for a really great time. Such a lovely group of people. YOU ROCK CORINE!!!!
Maria (U.S / Italy)DesignerA Corine e a tutto lo staff dico che siete meravigliose!!!! Grazieeeeeee……
Francesca (Italy)DesignerEncuentro Porteño es un encuentro tanguero, donde se combina, la buena energía, los abrazos milongueros, la buena música, y todo bien cuidado, imperdible !!!!
Roberto Zuccarino (Buenos Aires)Designer

Program 2020
“All that is important is this one moment in movement.
Make the moment important, vital, and worth living.
Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
— Martha Graham
Thursday, 14 May 2020
21.00 – 01.00
‘Pajaro sin Luz’
DJ LUCAS ‘EL TABERNERO’ MALEC [BsAs]
Friday, 15 May 2020
15.00 – 19.00
‘El Torito’
DJ JACOB ‘EL JIRAFA’ VOSMAER [Ams]
22.00 – 03.00
‘Tigre Viejo’
DJ EZEQUIEL ‘EL TIGRE’ SABELLA [BsAs]
Saturday, 16 May 2020
15.00 – 19.00
‘Zorro Gris’
DJ VINCENT ‘LLAMA’ LAM [Vancouver]
22.00 – 03.00
‘Milonga de los Animales’
DJ LUIS ALBERTO ‘EL MONO’ ROJAS [BsAs]
Dresscode: Colors, prints or furs of wildlife
Sunday, 17 May 2020
15.00 – 18.30
‘Palomita Mia’
DJ CORINE ‘LA BRUJA’ GROENEWEGEN [Ams]
18.30
Champagne
Salud! • Cheers • Santé • Salute • Na zdrowie • Prost • Skal • A sua saude • Ter vist • Gun bae
19.15
Dinner & Peña
The musicians for Encuentro Porteno 2020 are still a surprise, but… we can say they are participants of the Voice of Holland 2019 and they are amazing party-animals. Stay tuned, we keep you updated!
21.00 – 01.00
Goodbye-party ‘Cacareando’
DJ YATMA ‘EL AFRICANO’ DIALLO [Dakar]

DJ's & More
“One good thing about music,when it hits you, you feel no pain”
— Bob Marley

Lucas Malec | Buenos Aires
Lucas is an appreciated tango DJ, dancer and a tango musician playing Sax with the ‘Pannonica Quartet’. As a DJ, Lucas is a guarantee for excellent music, he keeps the energy levels high and he is on top of what happens on the dance floor. Boredom does not exist in his voculabary. Technical mistakes neither. Lucas also runs his own milonga (Tinta Roja) and knows what to do from a broad experience in DJ-ing.
“My favourite tangos of the moment are sung by Podesta:
Pocas Palabras – Tanturi
Un Infierno – Caló
Recien – Pedro Laurens”
Lucas: “Being a DJ at Encuentro Porteño is for me the best opportunity to bring out the best jewels in tango music for a group of people who deeply love tango and share a passion to dance through a roller coaster of sensations. At Encuentro Porteño we always have a bit of party and a bit of poetry”

Jacob Vosmaer | Amsterdam
Gentle and inviting are words that describe DJ ‘Jirafa’ Jacob. Being one of the house DJ’s of La Bruja, Jacob is clearly among the favorites of many dutch dancers. Jacob has a natural talent for DJ-ing. He does not talk a lot about what he does, he just does it. He connects the tango of the golden age with the needs of the dancers. He is just there… serving, observing, listening, and giving. He does not make compromises, and that keeps his dancefloors always full. Jacob entered the international tango scene some years ago. We are happy to have him at the opening salon of Encuentro Porteño in his home-town.
Jacob’s favourites at the moment:
“Humillacion – d’Arienzo with Mauré
No está – Di Sarli with Podesta
Cuando Tallan los recuerdos – Troilo with Marino”
Jacob: “As a DJ I am always waiting for the moment where there is enough energy in the room, when there is critical mass, and people just keep coming back to the floor. I can not control when this magical moment happens, I have to wait for it. At Encuentro Porteño I never have to wait long.”

Ezequiel Sabella | Buenos Aires
Ezequiel Sabella’s favourites of the moment:
“Uff so difficult to choose!!! Its like saying if I love more my dad or my mum!!
I love the ‘Alberto singers’: Marino, Moran, Echague, Castillo y Podesta… My choice of this moment:
Mi tango triste – Troilo with Marino
Desvelo – Pugliese with Moran
No nos veremos nunca – D’Arienzo with Echague”

Vincent Lam | Vancouver
“I was first introduced to dancing tango in 2006. In the beginning it was more comedy than romance until I encountered close embrace dancing and Golden Age tango music. I began DJing in 2012 and has since traveled the world dancing and sharing his music at some of the top Encuentros, Marathons and Festivals in North America, Sweden and Japan”.
“My favourite tangos of this moment:
Tanturi has great instrumentals but it was his singers Castillo and Campos that I love. My heart sings when I hear the opening bars to ‘La Vida es Corta’ with Castillo and ‘La Abandone y no Sabia’ with Campos.”

Luis Rojas | Buenos Aires
Luis Rojas is a milonguero by heart. He is a dancer since the age of eight; folklore, tango and anything that was being danced in that time. Luis teaches tango in Argentina, Europe and the USA. As a DJ he is frequently invited to tango-events. He organizes big events inviting fantastic orchestras like Romantica Milonguera and Sans Souci. Luis radiates a contagious positive energy and rocks to the last minute.
Luis’ favourite tangos of this moment:
Remembranza – Osvaldo Pugliese with Maciel
Uno – Anibal Troilo with Alberto Marino
Hasta siempre amor – Juan d’Arienzo with Jorge Valdez
Luis: “Soy feliz de participar en Encuentro Porteño. Es una fiesta a nuestra cultura y costumbres. Es tango y mucho más!!!”

Corine Groenewegen | Amsterdam
Corine is organizer of Encuentro Porteño and Milonguero salon ‘La Bruja’ in Amsterdam, is the most enchanting Brujita we know! She is a DJ with a very own brand, in which we can feel her personality, strong and sensitive at the same time. The ‘golden age’ of tango is clearly her gauge, in the wake of the ‘guardia vieja’. The high energy she generates on the dance floor, emerges from the unforgettable tangos and from lively ‘cortinas’. Her choices are the reflection of a rich experience, as a milonguera, as an organizer, as a teacher and as a woman, constantly traveling to Buenos Aires, as the rest of Europe.
Text by La Morocha Lucena, organizer of Encuentro ‘Te Quiero Lisboa’.
“My favourite tangos of the moment:
La Palanca – Juan D’azienzo
No te apures Cara Blanca – Demare with Juan Carlos Miranda
Navegante – di Sarli”
Corine: “It makes me very happy to be DJ for a crowd that is likeminded and passionate about tango. To influence and witness a feeling of happiness when the synergy is happening between music and dancers.”

Yatma Diallo | Dakar
Yatma, is born in Senegal and has lived in Italy for twenty years. His first dance experiences, in Dakar, belong to the world of salsa and hip hop, disciplines that he continues to cultivate for many years in Europe. Yatma started dancing tango more then ten years ago. His energy and his positivity is boundless. You feel it in his dance. You hear it in his music. His feeling for what a milonga needs is simply great! Yatma is a professional sound engineer. He will send us home with the best of tango with the best sound quality. Its gonna be a night full of energy. Make sure you don’t miss it!
“My favourite tangos of this moment:
Quejas de Bandoneon – Troilo (Love it, drives me crazy when I hear it)
Una fija – Di Sarli
Café Dominguez – D’Agostino with Vargas”

Salud! • Cheers • Santé • Salute • Na zdrowie • Prost • Skal • A sua saude • Ter vist • Gun bae

The musicians for Encuentro Porteno 2020 are still a surprise, but… we can say they are participants of the Voice of Holland 2019 and they are amazing party-animals. Stay tuned, we keep you updated!

Location
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane
by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Casa Antonio
The event takes place in ‘Casa Antonio’. The most Authentic Porteño place in Amsterdam with a great wooden dance floor, a lovely garden, a lounge-room and a bar that serves Argentinian wines and Dutch delicacies during Encuentro Porteño.

Registration
Prices
• Milonga-pass; 7 milongas / 30 hours of dancing: € 100
• Dinner & Peña: € 25 (optional)
Characteristics
Characteristics of Encuentro Porteño, the place to be for dancers able to create a nice flow and togetherness on the floor:
• Invitation by mirada and cabeceo
• Dancing in a milonguero embrace
• Considering the dancers when entering the floor
• Fluent ronda in touch with the other dancers
• Leaving the floor after each tanda
• Seating options for women, men and mixed couples
• Music played in Tandas and lively Cortinas
• Golden era: Yes
• Guerdia Vieja: No, apart from a few ‘golden’ pieces
• And last but not least: 100% tango-ambiance!!
Terms and Conditions
1. Your registration is personal. 2. We do not communicate the reasons for admittance or refusal of your participation. 3. If you have registered with a partner who cancels at a later point, we retain the right to put you on the waiting list without reimbursement of the registration fee. 4. The registration fee has to be done within 10 days after the confirmation of your participation. 5. In case you need to cancel compensation will not be granted. You can use the possibility though to propose someone to take over your place. 6. Dutch data protection law applies, you consent that we are keeping and processing your submitted data. We guarantee to handle your data strictly confidential. 7. You give us permission to take pictures and/or videos during the event and publish them online. 8. To protect a safe environment during the event for everyone we do not accept inappropriate behaviour. 9. By submitting your registration, you accept our terms and conditions.

Accommodation
Places to stay during Encuentro Porteño
ClinkNOORD
In 2015 a brand new Hostel opened in between Central Station and the milonga:
Clink Noord / www.clinkhostels.com/amsterdam/clinknoord
2 – 4 – 6 or 8 persons bedrooms. Apart from the rooms it provides several comfortable lounges and relaxing areas. Breakfast can be booked for € 5 a day
8 minutes biking (2.200 meter)
Price between € 35 and € 52 per person per night
AirBnB
AirBnB/Amsterdam:
https://nl.airbnb.com/s/Amsterdam
Casa Antonio is situated in the area “Volewijck”
Amsterdam is a rather small city and provides free ferries that take you 24 hours crossing the IJ-river, so many areas are within reach. Especially the areas around the Central Station and Amsterdam North
Camping
If you like to camp:
Camping Vliegenbos / www.amsterdam.nl/vliegenbos
Price: € 10 – € 75 per night
Accomodation: Tent, Caravan, Hiking hut, designerhut etc.
Beautifully located in a green lush park
9 minutes biking (2.500 meter)
Citycamp
If you bring your own camper:
Amsterdam Citycamp / www.amsterdamcitycamp.nl
Price € 15 per camper a night
Basic, but with amazing views across the water from the camp site
2 minutes biking (500 meter) from the venue
Bed and Breakfast
Site for Bed and Breakfasts: www.bedandbreakfast.nl

Transportation
Moving around during Encuentro Porteño
The Amsterdam way
Cycling
A bike is a very pleasant tool to move around in Amsterdam. Get yours at StarBikes / www.starbikesrental.com
Three days: € 17, four days: € 21, five days: € 25.
Make your reservation at: registration@encuentroporteno.com ; payment is at StarBikes. Please don’t forget to bring a creditcard, they will ask you a copy as a warranty for the bike.
Public Transport
In case you prefer to use public transport there are numerous buses, trams, ferries, metro etc that take you to any corner of the city. In front of the venue is a bus stop with buses to Central Station until deep in the night.
You will need a chipkaart, single or multiple use. Info here: OV-chipkaart
Check out the websites 9292.nl or en.gvb.nl for real time information on public transport. Both sites are also available as Apps!
From the airport
From the airport to Central Station by train
The fastest (15 minutes), easiest (from inside the airport) and cheapest (€ 4,20) way.
Tickets: You can travel with the Railway (NS) with either a single-use chipcard or an OV-chipkaart. Both are available from the yellow ticket machines or at the Ticket- and Service desks. OV-chipkaart is especially recommended if you plan to make more trips with public transport. You can use the chipcard also for the tram, bus and metro. Use your chipcard to check in. Don’t forget to check out when you leave the train/bus/metro/tram.
Taxi from or to the airport by TCA
Maximum price to Schiphol airport by using the tca.app : € 37,50
- Order your TCA taxi through the TCA App, our dispatch centre (+31 20 777 77 77)
- Tell your dispatcher you want to go to Schiphol Airport, or set this in the app
From Central Station
From Central Station to Starbikes
Starbikes • De Ruiterkade 143 • 1011 AC Amsterdam
www.starbikesrental.com/location.html
Walk to the riverside of Central Station, turn right. Walk along de Ruyterkade until you reach number 143 after ± 500 m.
From Central Station to the milonga by bike
Huize Antonius | Casa Antonius • Kamperfoelieweg 207 • 1032 HM Amsterdam
Take the free ferry to Buiksloterweg (every 5 minutes).
Bike straight ahead through the Van der Pekstraat to the Kamperfoelieweg. After passing the pink houses on your right side (about 8 minutes biking) you find a church and a green area on your left side. in the white building you find Encuentro porteño in Huize Antonius at nr 207.
From Central Station to the milonga by public transport
From Central Station go to the bus platform at ‘IJ-zijde’
Bus 394 exit Floraweg, walk 4 minutes to Kamperfoelieweg 207.
or
Take Metro 52 from Central Station to Noord, exit metrostation Noorderpark (3 minutes).
From there walk to Kamperfoeliestraat 207 or take bus 34, exit Pinksterbloemstraat.
To the milonga by car
The milonga is easy accessible, and you can park your car for free after 19.00! In other parts of Amsterdam there is paid parking.

From Encuentro Porteño to Central Station
During daily hours
Bus 34 / 35 (every 5 to 10 minutes)
From Pinksterbloemstraat to Metrostation Noorderpark. Take the Metro to Central Station.
Thursday night
Bus 293
From Pinksterbloemstraat to Central Station
Times: 01:00 / 02/00 / 03:00 / 04:00 / 05:00
Friday night, Saturday night & Sunday night
Bus 293
From Pinksterbloemstraat to Central Station
Times: 00:57 / 01:27 / 01:57 / 02:27 / 02:57 / 03:27 / 03:57 / 04:27 / 04:57 /

Hot Spots
Amsterdam-North has lots of nice places to eat. Here is a nice selection of places to have lunch and/or dinner, arranged by distance from the venue ‘Casa Antonio’.
Of course feel free to discover your own, Amsterdam-North has lots to offer!
Hanimeli (400m)
Brand new restaurant and café close to the venue.

Waargenoegen (650m)
This lunchroom does not have the looks but it has sooo much the taste. Great people who run the place and a true kitchen queen at Waargenoegen.
Open on:
Thursday: 12.00 – 16.00
Friday & Saturday: 12.00 – 17.00

Pasoek (700m)
Thai restaurant, close to Casa Antonio.

De Ceuvel (900m)
Great hang-out run by amazing people. Close to Casa Antonius.

Eetcafe Mosveld (1000m)
Schnitzelplace
Smaaqt (1,3km)
Nice restaurant in between Casa Antonio and the ferry.

Il Pecorino (1,5km)
Italian restaurant.
Noorderlicht (1,5km)
Another great hang-out. Hip, chill, nice people, fire-place and good food.

Pllek (1,7km)
Citybeach, Loungeplace, Lunchplace, Hangout, etc with spectaculair views over water to the Old Town.

Bbrood (1,7km)
Having breakfast at the terrace of BBrood is very pleasant. Great coffee, all kind of break rolls, soup and sweets and your day can start.

IJ-Kantine (1,8km)
Restaurant with great views over the water.

Loetje aan 't IJ (2,2km)
Excellent food, beautiful terrace to watch amazing sunsets.

EYE (2,4km)
Another “eye”catcher in Amsterdam. Hosts filmmuseum, a restaurant and and most important an amazing terrace overlooking the IJ.


Team

Corine Groenewegen
Organiser
Corine has been at the heart of Amsterdam tango for over 20 years, promoting, teaching, inviting high profile milonguero maestros and organising milonga “La Bruja” since 2007. Always on unique locations, La Bruja has become the favourite of milonguero style dancing in Amsterdam. The idea of Encuentro Porteño is one she has been dreaming of since many years. Her gratitude goes towards the milongueros/as and her experiences in Buenos Aires that are the inspiration that lead to Encuentro Porteño in Amsterdam.
http://www.labruja.nl • http://www.corinegroenewegen.nl
Jawi van de Kraats, Gerda Greeven, Kaja Keil and Daila Barneveld
Co-hosts
Marta Kossakowska
Photographer
Aida & team
Kitchen & Bar

Nicole Herink
Creations and design

Bart Hakvoort
Website
