Taboe Tango Camp

Special about the camp is the fact that everybody attends the full period and everything is inclusive. This creates a special cohesion in the group and a fantastic atmosphere. This camp we have CONTRAST as a central theme and many workshops and games will be inspired by this.

Before the camp we also offer a special intensive training weekend with Homer and Cristina Ladas. You can book for each event individually or combine both events.

Camp program

• day time and evening milongas
• 2 workshops per person daily (minimum)
• tango labs by participants
• amateur dancer-musicians seminar with concert on the last night
• morning bodywork sessions (eg. yoga, pilatus, tai chi, tae bo)
• singing circle for everybody to join
• gatherings and sharing groups, milonga Kick Offs & other exotic tango 'snacks'
  
• a huge forest around and a lake nearby
  
• private lessons (optional)
• shiatsu session (optional)

 
Workshops
At the camp we offer about 60 workshops by well known international teachers. Here some examples. Every participant is entitled to 2 workshops a day, plus ofcourse all other program offers. Workshops you can only book at the camp, the night before.

CRISTINA & HOMER LADAS

1. Rule of the hip: when twisty thighs touch!
   
2. Common rhythmic elements (contact with musicality)
   
3. Stylistic signatures of the 'golden age' orchestras (contact with the orchestras)
   
4. How we learn (our brains on tango)
   
5. To telescope or not (contact with different styles & dance pedagogies)
   
6. The close embrace turn (contact with more constraints)
   
7. The open embrace turn (contact with less constraints)
   
8. The hug and lift part i: pitter-patter (contact with floor, partner, & music)
   
9. The hug and lift part ii: the hook behind volcada
   
10. The ocho-cortado and beyond (contact with creativity)
    

SUSANNE & RAFAEL

1. Superman meets superwoman - grounding and establishing axes with spiral energy
   
2. How to create a tango animal - contact from the floor to the partner and back to the floor
   
3. Musicality: singing with the body while dancing ***
   
4. Contact to everyone: social rules and games of dancing
   
5. Let's play with soltadas (intro) - different ways of communication
   
6. 360° turn on (less than) 1 m2
   
7. Leader training (only rafael)
   
8. Follower training (only susanne)
   
9. Organic ochos - never fall
   
10. Dancing sensitive with attention and adornos
    

ADELINE & KOREY IRELAND

1. Improvisation for beginners (contact with spontaneity)
   
2. Mind bending rock step turns (contact the unexpected)
   
3. Curly backcross
   
4. Contact with the personality - adornos
   
5. Expanding dance dynamics for alternative music
   
6. Sharing the music
   
7. Boleos: Contact with momentum and strech - combinations
   
8. Elastic Contact - bouncy axis, leggy embrace
   
9. Vals - expression and dynamic
   
10. Dance Technique: using gravity (Adeline)
    

PARAS SAGHI & PAUL VOSSEN

1. New choices and chances - stillness as a tool for a connected and creative dance
   
2. In Contact with the music - Following or opposing the music. Or just being picky!
   
3. YIN & YANG - In contact with our feminine and masculine side.
   
4. Irresistible boleos - impossible to resist, your leg will fly high!
   
5. Open contact, real closeness, true intimacy - It starts always with ourselves, and making contact from here will be strong and real.
   

BORA ERDEM

1. Understanding each other by the touch
   
2. Dancing different dynamic moments in the music
   
3. Milongero style ganchos for leader and follower
   
4. Contactful barridas
   
5. Tricks to dance a happy milonga
   
6. Boleos for men & women
   
7. Dancing soft or dancing hard
   

 
Musical seminar
We are so happy to again offer a musical seminar by Korey Ireland for dancer-musicians. Every morning you will explore exiting tango music secrets and pratice together.
When you join we expect you to complete the seminar, but the first workshop is a try out. Korey will preselect a few songs based on the instruments joining. A few weeks before the camp you will receive your music in pdf and you allready can start to practice

From Korey:
"We will spend the week getting in close contact with the tradition of golden era dance music. Working from transcriptions and arrangement we'll create our own versions of classic tangos to perform at the end of the week for our dancing friends. Music scores will be available in advance to study/practice. The ability to read music is very helpful, to not completely necessary.
Bandoneon, violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, and voice are the core instruments in the tango orchestra. We can also accommodate guitars, singers, and some woodwinds and brass. No prior tango music experience is required, but will help.

We'll begin the week with an open jam session where we'll play more informally to allow musicians sample the experience of playing with a tango ensemble. The hope is the jam experience might develop into other musical adventures through the course of the week."
 

Privates
All teacher (except Korey and Homer) are offering privates of 45 minutes for € 40,-. We will open booking later.