Neotango

Workshop with Mareike Focken & Jost Budde

Classroom classes will only take place live with participants at the tanzhaus. Should it no longer be possible to continue the face-to-face classes due to pandemic restrictions, the remaining dates would be cancelled.

For this course an registration is only possible in couples.

This neotango workshop explores sacadas for both roles: Structure, technique and dynamics. Mareike and Jost presuppose "Giro/Molinete", explain thoroughly standards and develop on it interesting combinations with front- and backsacadas. As always, technique and structures are explained in detail and beautiful sequences and connections in the dance flow are shown. The whole on a mix of Neo + NonTango, Tango Nuevo and suitable pieces of traditional orchestras. 

Mareike Focken und Jost Budde

Mareike Focken & Jost Budde

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Argentine tango has been a constant source of fascination for more and more people around the world for many years. The tanzhaus nrw tango team, consisting of Jost Budde, Stefanie Pla Pérez, Andrea Stegmaier and Mareike Focken, has developed a distinctive teaching method that enables participants to dance freely from the first class on. Their style is informed by many long nights in Buenos Aires’ Milongas, while they join traditional elements with modern influence, the so-called neo tango or tango nuevo tendencies in the younger generation of dancers. Their well-founded classes bring the “connection with the partner” to the fore, or, as Jost puts it, “couple dancing in embrace”. In the introductory course basic steps are taught and the fun of movement is in the foreground.