Teachers:
| Homer & Cristina Ladas (San Francisco) |
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Maria Mondino & Ismael Ludman (Bs As) | |
Brigitta Winkler (New York/ Berlin) |
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| Javier Cura (Italien) |
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Eric Rainer-Vehrs & Annakee (Berlin) | |
Tine Weiß & Mark von Rahden (Hannover) |
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Homer & Cristina Ladas (San Francisco)
We're very happy to welcome again two of the most creative as well as innovative dancers
of the international tango scene to our next tango camp. Both of them are not
only dedicated dancers, but at the same time very sensitive and talented teachers.In their style, an organic fusion between closed and open embrace, groundedness well as a creative musicality are the merging elements. For both the social aspect of the tango is a focussing point, since it's not only a matter of a couple, but also within a group. What we especially appreciate in Homer & Cristina's tango is their never fading couriosity, their tolerance as well as their ability to integrate new elements - in one word: their "One-Tango-Philosophy".
We look forward to new and exciting ideas and techniques, not simply taught, but brought to you with fun and enthusiasm that is contageous! It is Homer's and Cristina's likeable aura that awakes the creative inner voice of their students turning the tango into something that goes far beyond mere steps!
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Maria Mondino & Ismael Ludman (BS. AS.)
Ismael Ludman & Maria Mondino are are a fresh, dynamic and energetic couple. Their
performances come from the simplicity to a complex and personal interpretation of the
music, both traditional and modern tango. As teachers they combine the precision of the
technical and mechanical perspective of the movements, with the abstract world of
sensations and feelings. They build their classes from strong and simples bases, to
arrive to the complexity in an organic way. They understand a pedagogic experience as
a body-mind-interchange between students and teachers. Maria Mondino started her career in 1998. In 2001 started worked with Gustavo Naveira. She studied with Chicho - Eugenia, and Pablo Inza. The style she is interested in, and try to develop as well as promote, is the result of a search : the idea of generating consciousness of the movement, the systematization of concepts, as well as a clear and defined pedagogy.She stimulates her search to achieve quality and organicity in the movement, as well as warmth, expressiveness and connection in the dance. Since 1999 she teaches regularly in Buenos Aires and in Europe workshops.
Ismael Ludman is part of a generation of young Argentinian dancers, his curiosity led him to penetrating into a great diversity of schools and teachers into the tango of Buenos Aires, to come together in the search of a dynamical, improvised and organic tango. His formation has been constant escorted by artistic disciplines as Contact ImprovisaciÃ"n, Eutonia, Butoh and Dance-Theatre. His search look for a tango with strong accent in the communication, a relax way of dancing and the expressiveness. Beyond Buenos Aires he has taken part as a dancer, teacher and Organizer in Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Scotland, England and Spain.
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Brigitta Winkler (New York/ Berlin)
Stage Tango & Participiciants Performance
Brigitta Winkler is a curious woman. She likes both tradition and innovation and has been
dancing tango for over 20 years. She divides her time between New York and Berlin. In 1980,
her life changed when she discovered Argentine tango. She then spent some years in Paris
studying with Virulazo, a star of Tango Argentino. At that time she met Coco Orlando Diaz,
and they began performing together at Les Trottoirs de Buenos Aires in Paris. In 1986,
they took their own show to Montreal and Toronto.
Brigitta often traveled to Buenos Aires in order to study with such noted dancers as
Juan Carlos Copes, Antonio Todaro, Pepito, Gustavo Naveira, and Eduardo Arquimbau.
In 1987 she opened Tanzart with Angelika Fischer, where she hosted Arquimbau's
visits to Berlin. In 1994 Brigitta choreographed and danced in the Tango Marathon
in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart and Tango Vision in the Podewil Berlin.
She teaches regularly at Festivals in USA, Germany, Italy and Russia, and in 2005 she openend her own Tangocenter called Phynix Tanzt in Berlin. Brigitta incorporates into her interpretation of tango the ideas of Body-Mind Centering, which she studied in a four-year program with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. Besides working with TangoMujer she loves to work with Tomas Howlin from Buenos Aires. Together they have created a Teacher Training Network for Tango. Her website is "www.brigittatango.de".
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In 2001 she was awarded wih the scholarship for choreography by the Djerrassi Foundation,
California. In 2005 she founded the studio "phynix tanzt"
für Tango Argentino, Modern Dance and Yoga in Berlin.
Javier Cura (Italy)
Tango - Contact Improvisation - Martial Arts and Paricipants Performance
The Body as a channelIn the flow of the water we can find ascending as well as descending spirals whirling around a constantly moving axis. This fluxionary concept will be the vision for the circulating energy within a dancing couple. We will develop that out of a mixture of elements deriving from Tai Chi and Contact Improvisation, which will support us in developing both a grounded kinesis of our senses and a more intuitive approach to tango.
We will understand the usefulness of this concept if we apply it to different tango elements such as embrace, voleos, colgadas or sacadas.
The aim of this stage is a dance in which a common tango language enables a free and individual expression.
Javier Cura is a cross-genre Argentine-American artist. His artistic work in fine arts was presented in a number of exhibitions displaying objects, sculptures and installations (e.g. Museum of Fine Arts, Bs As). As a performer, director or author, he took part in stage productions in Argentina, Columbia, the US, Italy and Indonesia.
He teaches performing arts, physical theatre as well as Contact Improvisation in the UK,
Italy, France, Germany and Argentina. Also, he was invited as a teacher to the International
Contact Improvisation Festival in Orvieto (Ital), Freiburg (Germany) as well as to the WCCIF
in the United States. His most recent play interconnecting Tango and Contact Improvisation
within the framework of physical theatre was performed in Prague's dance theatre "Farma
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Eric Rainer-Vehrs & Annakee (Berlin)
We're happy that we again could lure Eric to the PHANTASTango. Since the first camp, he has
taught interesting labs in his fresh, unorthodox style. As both teacher and dancer Eric
seasons the Tango with offbeat elememts making him a sought-after teacher worldwide.
He has already taught Tango in its native country, Argentina, the USA, China and several
international festivals throughout Europe. In 2007 he completed the teacher seminar in
Nijmegen, Netherlands, and now runs his own studio in Berlin. Building on the vast ground of these experiences, he develops a unique didactic style fuelled by fun and loads of positive energy. This year Eric will be accompagnied in teaching by his dance partner Annakee, who he's been working with for a long time.
Annakee lives as a freelance artist working in fantasy painting, design and NeoTango.
She had her first dancing expericence at the age of three when her parents went to dance
ballroom dances themselves taking her with them. She simply loves music and dance ever since.
This brought her to trying such different dances as free music improvisation, ballroom dance,
even a taste of ballet and Flamenco taking her finally, in 2001, into the embrace of the
Tango. And, it remains the most fascinating dance for her. After an unvoluntary break,
she re-discovered the Tango practicing technique. Feeling, letting go, connecting in
grateful surrender are the ingredients that make her rather dance with the heart than with
her body. Sensations and sensitivity can be expressed with the freedom which is only
generated by technical ability as well as improvisation. "Melt into one sensitive being" -
is the tango feeling she wants to convey to other dancers in her teaching.Eric and Annakee on YouTube
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Tine Weiß & Mark von Rahden (Hannover)
Elegance and poetry, drama and humour – these are the ingredients of the aboriginal
Argentine Tango. A dance, which, using versatile music, celebrates the couple and re-creates
the deep moment again and again. The art of improvisation, one of tango's most particular
characterisics, makes every tango unique and unmistakable.
Tine Weiß & Mark von Rahden are both dedicated teachers and dancers. They know how to affect their students with that passion right from the start. In both dancing and teaching they link the traditional roots with a modern quality of movement of the tango. The most particular qualities of their dance are a harmonic as well as dynamic connections and a playful musicality. Elegance, pleasure and creativity in the dance are the most important fundaments for both.
Tine & Mark have been taught tango dance as well as didactics by numerous of the big names in tango. In their own school "Club de Tango"in Hanover they teach all class levels. Their friendly and student-focussed teaching makes them well-booked teachers throughout Germany. They are co-founders of the Tango-Werksatt Hanover, organize tango trips, concerts and milongas and, also, work as choreographers and DJs.
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