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Tango Traveler, who are you ?
A ethno-sociological research project

1. About you: 

Male or female?

Nationality: 

City and country of residence: 

Age (range ok): 

Job or professional field:

Are you a milonguero/a (people who dance in milongas for his own pleasure) or a tango professional (teacher, performer, choregrapher, organizer, etc.)?

2. About your tango dancing : 

You dance as a leader or follower?

How long have you been dancing regurlaly?

How and why did you begin dancing tango?

Do you have a regular dance partner? Is he/she your live partner as well?

In your place of residence, how many times a week are you going out to practica or milonga?

In your place of residence, do you still take regular group and/or private lessons?

How would you define your tango style?
-	Nuevo
-	Tango Salon
-	Milonguero
-	Salon, Villa Urquiza Style
-	Contemporaneo
-	Stage
-	Style has no meaning to me
-	Other : 

Who are your favorite maestros?
-	For performance/style of dance: 

-	For teaching: 

Do you practice another dance? Any sport/physical activity? Which ones?

Do you practice an artistic activity (e.g. music)? Is it related to tango?

What are your favorite music/orchestra?
-	For dancing:

-	For listening: 

Are you interested in performing and/or participating in championships?

3. About your travels

How many times a year do you travel for tango?

Would you define yourself as a (non-tango) traveler or did you begin traveling especially for tango?

Do you go mostly to: 
-	international festivals
-	tangocamps
-	foreign regular milongas
-	workshops
-	marathons
-	other: 

Do you use your weekend/vacation time for traveling and/or do you take the opportunity of business trips to visit local milongas?

Which languages do you speak (including survival level for taking classes)?

Where do you travel: 
-	in your own country
-	in the neighborhood countries inside your area of residence (Europe, North America, NE Asia, SE Asia...): 
-	everywhere in the world
-	other: 

How do you choose the destination? What are the main reasons for electing a tango event: 
-	the maestros invited
-	the tango style of the event (e.g. traditional, nuevo...)
-	the cultural/touristic interest of the event localisation
-	the workshops topics
-	the DJs
-	the shows, concerts etc. offered by the event
-	the price (festival, air fare, hotel...): 
-	other: 

Do you take the opportunity of tango traveling for visiting the country/city? 

Do you usually stay one or more days before or after the tango event for sightseeing?

In case you combine tango and tourism, what are you interested about (e.g. food, museums, landscape, architecture, meeting people, etc.)?

What kind of place do you prefer for tango traveling?
-	historical city
-	beach club
-	countryside estate
-	cruise ship
-	other: 
-	You don’t care as far as tango is good!

What are the last tango event you attended and the next you plan to attend?

You dream tango event: if you didn’t have to take into account money or logistics issues, where would you like to go? Why?

Have you been to Buenos Aires? How many time and for how long? If not, do you plan to go?

4. Motivations for tango traveling: 

Do you travel mostly for:
-	dancing
-	watching performances
-	taking workshop lesson
-	taking private lessons with a specific maestro
-	attending big shows
-	attending concerts
-	partying
-	other: 

Are you mostly traveling:
-	alone
-	with your partner
-	with an informal group of friends
-	with a group organized by your tango school
-	other: 

What is your main motivation for tango traveling?

What are you looking for in these travels?

What do you appreciate in international events?
-	meeting new people
-	meeting friends from all over the world
-	attending classes with maestros who are not going to your country
-	mingling with tango professionals
-	living 24/24 in “tango world” for a few days
-	discovering new music/style of dance/etc.: 
-	other: 
Is dancing with different/new partners important to you? What does it bring you and/or to your dance?

Do you think that there is an “international tango community”? In what sense? Do you feel that you belong to it?

Do you have the feeling that tango and tango community are unique, different from other dances? In what sense?

What is your out-of-town best experience so far? Why?

5. About tango in your life

Do you consider tango as:
-	a hobby
-	a way of meeting people
-	a sport activity
-	a cultural activity
-	a therapy
-	a way of life
-	other: 

3 words for a definition of tango: 

What are you more interested in inTango culture:
-	the music
-	the poesy/the lyrics
-	dance history and evolution
-	other:

We ofter hear the sentence “Tango changed my life”: is it true for you? In what sense?

What are you personally seeking in tango?

Please add anything you would like to share about your tango experience and/or your travels: 

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