LOCATION
Holzpoeze Jonge, Nickepütz 23, 52349 Düren, Germany
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• What would happen if only one listens to the music, while the couple
still needs to dance in perfect sync with the music?
• Can my movements tell whether we are dancing tango, vals, or milonga?
(while my partner doesn’t hear the music?)
• How can the leader anticipate the beat so the follower's steps match
the music’s timing and dynamics?
• We know the dancing technique, but is there also a “musical technique”
for dancers to share musical moments?
We normally learn movement/motoric techniques to improve our dance…
While it is rare to find workshops focusing on “musical technique”.
Boosts your ability to dance different parts of the music, communicating musical moments, the art of anticipation, introducing dancing compositions (one in one instrument and the other in another), sharing the music as musicians do, and developing a musical communication between you and your partner!
Making the “musical language” something you both in the couple: understand, share, and complement each other!
FRIDAY 6TH JUNE
19:15h - 20:30h: Tango, Vals, or Milonga? Can the movements tell me
what is the leader listening to?: Understanding CadenciaS
20:30h - 24:00h: Milonga - DJ Natalia
SATURDAY 7TH JUNE:
11:00h - 12:15h: Condutor or musician - Leader or follower? The art of anticipation.
12:15h - 14:00h: Lunch break (lets get something to share)*
14:00h - 15:15h: WS 3 Rhythmic Patterns in mute
15:30h - 18:30h: SPECIAL UNIQUE PRACTICA With and without muted followers
(or could also be leaders), you choose!
18:30h - 20:00h: Dinner Break
20:00h - 24:00h: Milonga DJ Agustin
SUNDAY 8TH JUNE:
11:00h-12:15h: WS 4 Dancing different instruments and ways to communicate this
12:15h-13:45h: Lunch break (bring your own)*
13:45h-14:45h: WS 5 Review: going through the difficulties
that appear during the weekend.
15:00h-17:00h: Coffee + Cake + Milonga (closed milonga - only for WS participants).
*See more information below in the section "About food"
From the new Argentine couples, Natalia and Agustin are among the ones that had grown the fastest in the last years. Abroad they achieve their recognition thanks to their unique classes where they mix culture, art, history, musicality, dance, and technique, getting to transfer highly tango-rooted knowledge, without even using figures or sequences.
Having the opportunity to experience them in person not only offer you the possibility of living a unique and different experience, but also allows you to live the energy, freshness, enthusiasm, and personalized treatment of a couple who seek you to learn, have fun, evolve, get inspired and make you experience the sensation of being in Argentina.
The venue doesn't have restaurant service, but they allow people to bring food and eat there.
So the idea for the meals is the following:
Saturday Lunch, the idea is that we all bring something to share. If you can't cook something at home, you can also buy something easy at the supermarket, like bread, cheese, snacks, cakes, etc.
Saturday Dinner, there are very nice restaurante around the area where you can go for dinner, we can help you out in more details when we are there ;)
Sunday Lunch, you can bring something to eat at the venue for your own.
Coffe, Tea, and water will be available for free.
Beer, wine and cold drinks will be available for buying in the venue.
Holzpoeze Jonge, Nickepütz 23, 52349 Düren, Germany
You can press the picture below to see the exact location on Google maps.
First month
Recognition and analyses on the four elements a tango composer can work with to create a composition. Conductors decisions and how to bring this orchestration to a body interpretation.
Second month
Analyses on the qualities of the sounds produced by the different musicians and how is the attack-decay-sustain-release (ADSR) curve of the sound.
Embodying the ADSR into the tango dance to create qualities of movements that match closer the intentions of the musicians and composition.
All Material is supported by
Historical moments that make those elements something important to represent in our dance.
Dance technical concepts in order to make the learning journey easier.
Plenty of visualizations for faster understanding of musical elements.
The final destination of the training is to create movements with meaning, dancing together side by side with the musical composition and instrumentation, boosting our expression thanks to the way we work with the music.
If the evolution of the course allows it, we will also overlay the stylistic approach, milonguero-style and salon-style differences, orchestras particularities, and decisions, to integrate into our dance.
We really believe that the best dancers we have seen or experienced had a great balance of many tango layers. They were not only good in sequences and steps or just good in musicality. There is a fully holistic approach behind their dance, which is usually hard to find as students. Why? Well, we think it is because all these layers are frequently taught separately and it is left to the student, to connect them.
Our intention of assisting in this hole of the learning process is what had inspired our workshops and classes worldwide.
In addition, at the beginning of 2021, we did a survey on what dancers thought was needed in the "learning tango journey".
The result couldn’t be more holistic! confirming the idea that sharing tango from a multi-layer perspective and creating sense from any angle, do make a change in students from any level.
Throughout the course, we will respect the interest distribution that came out from the survey:
Musicality
Expressiveness
Technique
Orchestras and History
Connection
Sequences/Steps/Figures
"We work to maximize each person's creativity, improvisation and freedom,
letting them find in tango, a comfortable place for authentic expression."
