Tango Mercurio Adapted Tango Program Instructor Training Application; Sep. 5-7, 2025

Thank you for your interest in engaging with Tango Mercurio’s Adapted Tango Program. We launched in June 2025 to provide the scientifically proven benefits of partnered and improvised dance to people with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders through a safe, interesting, and fun adaptation of traditional Argentine tango. Below, we invite you to apply for the Adapted Tango Program Fundamentals Intensive Training with Dr. Madeleine Hackney September 5–7, 2025 in Washington, DC: 

- Friday, September 5: 6pm-9pm 
(Lecture by Dr. Hackney with 1-hour dinner break)

- Saturday, September 6: 11am-5pm
(with 30 minutes for lunch and two 15-minute breaks)

- Sunday, September 7: 11am-5pm
(with 30 minutes for lunch and two 15-minute breaks)

All sessions will take place at Post Hall on The George Washington University’s Mount Vernon Campus at 2100 Foxhall Road, NW.

Thank you in advance for sharing your availability to volunteer in our Adapted Tango Program pilot series, as well as some information about your background in movement, your involvement in Argentine tango, your experience engaging with people with Parkinson's disease, and your interest in participating in an Adapted Tango Program. 

We appreciate your time, your openness, and your interest in the program. We promise to respond to your application as promptly as possible.

Feel free to email questions to info@tangomercurio.org.  

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Please indicate whether you can commit to volunteering for the entirety of at least one of two five-week pilot series (one 1.5-hour class/week for five weeks) to be held at the George Washington University Student Center at 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20052. Check all that apply. *
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Please tell us about your background in dance, including how many years you have danced, what form(s) you practice, and what dance means to you. (300 words or less) *
Are you an Argentine tango teacher, performer and/or organizer? Please tell us about your professional tango activities in your home community and in other communities or enter N/A. (300 words or less)
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Have you engaged in therapeutic or adapted tango classes before, either as a volunteer or a facilitator? Please tell us more about your experience or enter N/A. (300 words or less)
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Are you a tango professional or dancer who is interested in launching similar programming in another part of the U.S.? Please tell us more or enter N/A. (300 words or less)
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Do you have experience living with, engaging with, or working with people with Parkinson's disease or other movement disorders? Please tell us more or enter N/A. (300 words or less)
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What in particular about participating in an Adapted Tango Program appeals to you? Please share any thoughts you have about the therapeutic potential of movement, physical touch, partner / social dance forms or the arts, or share anything else in our mission and plans that speaks to you. (300 words or less)

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