Taboe Tango Camp

The Program

STILLNESS
This camp we will have a central theme: STILLNESS. Imagine a week in wich we use this theme to create a more intense dance and a more aware encounter of ourselves and others. All teachers and facilitators use this theme as an inspiration designing their workshops. Image workshops on 'explosiveness and stillness in movement', on 'the silence in the music', on 'waiting in connection', on 'less is more'.

The program for the Taboe Tango Camp is a living process and might change a bit during the camp.

PPRIVATES
Check here the available private classes at the camp. Each private is 40 euro for 45 minutes.

ALL INCLUSIVE PROGRAM WITH:
daytime and evening milongas
bed and food (optional)
daily free choice between:

• 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, chi kung)
• singing circle for everybody to join
• gatherings and sharing groups, milonga Kick Offs & other exotic tango 'snacks'
  
• a huge forest around
  
• private lessons (optional)
• shiatsu session (optional)

The provisional time table

One day we will have a different program. Dancing at the LAKE!



WORKSHOPS OVERVIEW

Filippo

1. To move or not to move, pauses that are frozen or alive.
   
2. The stillness of the embrace.
   
3. Dancing without steps. Where does the dance happen when we stop moving our feet so much.
   
4. What to move and what not to move!!! Technical understanding of sequencing the movement. Dancing requires less effort than you think.
   
5. When to move and when not to move! When - in the music - to take a step and when not to. Possibilities of musical interpretation.
   
6. Loud of soundless feet? To which orchestras it's nice to be 'loud' with our feet and to which orchestras do we float over the floor without a sound.
   
7. Dancing and having fun even if you still know little.
   
8. How to be interesting and fun for your partner.
   
9. Milonga - musical interpretation.
   
10. Tango Vals - Character and technique. Interesting figures.
    

Gisela

1. Silence: a moment for changing.
   
2. Point of balance-Pivot.
   
3. Point of balance-Playing around the axis or playing with the axis.
   
4. Stay here and dance "the not-doing".
   
5. Waiting for the pushing of the music.
   
6. Composition: different discourses from your centre.
   
7. Stay here and dance in the small space-close embrace.
   
8. Find the connection of your axes-close embrace.
   
9. Centre and periphery-Sequential movement-Ganchos.
   
10. Stay here: barridas/arrastres.
    

Mabel
Sorry, but Mabel had to cancel due to family circumstances.

Oliver

1. Still too fast: Enriching and relaxing Milonga.
   
2. Economy of Milonguero-Turns.
   
3. Invisible Communication: Using the belly even if not existing.
   
4. What to do with stillness?: Filling music-breaks.
   
5. Breathing: As simple as walking.
   
6. Milonga: Small steps - amazing effect.
   vBiagi and his off beats.
   
7. Attention to your Partner: Pivots, Sidesteps and Embrace.
   
8. Slow Motion: Ideas can make one step become many.
   

Katja and Ben

1. In the eye of the storm (Leaders' point of view).
   
2. In the eye of the storm (Followers' point of view).
   
3. Taking time.
   
4. Dropping pebbles in the pond (Followers' point of view).
   
5. Dropping pebbles in the pond (Leaders' point of view).
   
6. Growing in the Stillness.
   
7. Quiet as a mouse.
   
8. Still lonely after all these years.
   
9. Still life.
   

Ezequiel and Lydia
Dance impro meets tango on Friday and Saturday.
Coming closer and closer to tango from free improvisation, throug opening the senses listening and playing.