Time frame:

1+2 July | 22+23 July | 19+20 August | 26+27 August 2023
2:00pm–4:00pm
@ Tanz Station – Barmer Bahnhof

The workshop will be taught in two classes per weekend. Each class runs for 2 hours. While the first class introduces concepts, approaches and tango codes, the second class will allow us to deepen the technical work and increase the complexity of the tango sequences.

It is recommendable to participate in the full weekend block of 2 classes, but it is not necessary to follow up the blocks monthly.

What to expect:

Each class will be divided into two sets. We firstly work on technical ground for self-perception, body organisation and connection, and secondly, we work on tango codes of movement and structure.

• In the first set we aim to open internal spaces for a greater availability of connection and comfortable movements; through an unconstrained body we look for expressive expansion and a greater projection of movement into the space. We will awake and train perception of the connection to other bodies through the concepts of action and reaction, timing, qualitative difference for contact meeting points and surfaces.
• In the second set, we will work on the codes of movement for tango. We will focus on qualitative conventions of movement for both roles, rethinking and renewing the concepts of leader, follower and lead/conduct. We will show and work on basic and intermediate sequences to apply the new concepts of movement.

Prices and registration:

Participation fee: 28€ for one workshop day
Register via anmeldung@tanz-station.de

About Ale Lindman:

Ale Lindman started dancing tango at the age of 11 when her father, an old milonguero from Buenos Aires, brought her to the classes of the great Juan Carlos Copes. Later tango influencers were Gabriel Angio, Carlitos Perez and Gustavo Naveira. Ale did a ballet and contemporary dance education, firstly in Buenos Aires at the National School of Dance (special focus on Alexander technique, Contact Improvisation and Feldenkreis) and next in New York at the Müller Company and Steps Dance School (with focus on Modern and contemporary dance).

Ale started teaching at the age of 22 in Buenos Aires. Later on, she also started teaching in Europe where she also enriched her dance education at SEAD in Salzburg, the SNDO in Amsterdam and with diverse dance artists (remarkably, the CDT from Wuppertal, David Zambrano, and Renate Graziadei, among others). Few years later Ale completed as well the Hatha Yoga education at the Sivananda Center in Italy. Alongside with her dance studies, Ale graduated in History of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. Currently she is finishing her PhD on Philosophy of Art and movement at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Ale has been teaching the arts of movement for almost 20 years offering a dance experience that aims to explore and train the awareness of movement’s diversity through different techniques of connection and improvisation.

About César Spengler:

César Spengler began dancing tango at the age of 19. His dance has been influenced by Julio Balmaceda, Carlitos Pérez, Gustavo Naveira and Mariano Frumboli, among others. César began his training in 1997 and continues to this day, finding his own style and teaching in dance. He also studied to become a teacher of curative education, art education and German as a foreign language.

César started teaching dance in 2004 in Europe, mainly in Germany as well as Holland, Belgium, Italy, France, England, Spain and Buenos Aires. In addition to teaching, he was the organiser of important festivals in Wuppertal, Germany, as well as Tango Conil in Cádiz, Spain and Tango Caromb in Avignon, France, among others.

From 2008 to 2019 he has held both artistic and organisational roles at the cultural centre Café ADA, Wuppertal. He currently offers his Argentine tango classes at “Vos Popular Tango”, a place where, in addition to teaching, he organises a social club with various tango dance activities and live music, etc.