7.45 pm

Festival Warm Up - Milonga Atipica official Festival collaboration -

For all who are earlier in Berlin and all local Berlin Queer tangodancers - we are more than happy to collaborate with our beloved Berlin queer Milonga Atipica hosted by Yana and Victoria.

7:45-8:45 pm Open class - guest teacher: Ray Sullivan (Miami)
9:00 -0:30 pm Milonga - DJ Andres Ozzuna (San Francisco)



Price at the door: 20 EUR Open class + Milonga
10 EUR Milonga only

Venue: MalaJunta, Kolonnenstr. 29, 10829 Berlin

WS#01 - How to make your tango easier and comfortable? (all levels)


Dawid Belach


How to dance freely without feeling like you're fighting your body, balance, and equilibrium. How to feel comfortable? We'll create conditions that allow you to experience tango in that way.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

18 (norole) 

WS#02 - Rhythm is it! (interm.)


Ezgi Turmus Binici & Kat Gorsuch 1


Rhythmic combinations and necessary technique for rhythmic music



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

2 (norole) 

WS#03 - Vals (interm.)


Astrid Weiske 1


Musicality and rotation - we will focus on different rhythmical variations while we rotate through space and time - do not miss Astrid's vals expertise



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

14 (norole) 

WS#04 - Choreography figures that make the audience clap (Advance)


Walter Perez 1


Tricks, lifts , ganchos , colgadas and drags. Dancing like a star, impress your friends , show off ,don' t be humble. Learn some figures that will make you shine. Chose the time to do it in the music. How to start and end a choreography. Tell a story ,be dramatic ,this is the right time to do it.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

29 (norole) 

WS#05 - The Giro Code (All levels)


Fabian Kipp 1


Crack the code to tango’s DNA and unleash the power within – seamless flow of movement and connection. Deepen your understanding of tango and amplify your dance experience. This workshop combines simplicity with depth, offering techniques and challenges for any level.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

12 (norole) 

WS#06 - Posture,Walking and Musicality (all)


Walter Perez 2


We all struggle with the most important fundamentals of Tango. Learn how to find your best posture, finding your core, staying connected with your inside and project a solid and firm presence on the floor. Walk,walk,walk, different directions move wherever you want. Open your ears, your body must move harmoniously with the music. Discover the structure of tango music, the beat, changes of speed, enjoy the pauses, dance the silence.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

12 (norole) 

WS#07 - Combinations of barridas (interm.)


Lily Chenlo 1


Combinations of barridas with change of direction - how to make a easy Movement for the dancefloor



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

11 (norole) 

WS#8 - Close embrace (all levels)


Ezgi Turmus Binici & Kat Gorsuch 2


fixing the foundations and increasing the possibilities



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

12 (norole) 

Festival Opening Milonga at Bebop Berlin- Thursday


DJ: Gökce Ceren Haznedar (Berlin)


Practica: 9:00 - 10:00pm with Karen Johnson (Philadelphia) & Andres Ozzuna (San Francisco)

Milonga: 10pm

*Show:ca. 11.30 p.m. - Lily Chenlo (BA) & Dilaria Ogretmen (Berlin)




Price: €22

Remaining Spaces:

Space Available

WS#9 - How to make your tango more "wow" for you and your partner?(interm.)


Dawid Belach 2


We'll work on communication and density of movement, those aspects that make tango such an incredible experience and sensation. This workshop will be dedicated to uncovering what makes someone look into your eyes after a tanda and you just know that was it. Can I guarantee it? No! But we will do everything to make it happen!



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

11 (norole) 

WS#10 - THE MAGIC OF CROSS SYSTEM (adv.)


Fabian Kipp 2


Dive deep into the mesmerizing realm of the cross system, unlocking its unique character and flow, infusing your dance with stylistic richness and intentional artistry. A challenge tailored for advanced dancers ready to cross over to a whole new dimension of tango mastery.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

21 (norole) 

WS#11 - Giros (all levels)




Ezgi Turmus Binici & Kat Gorsuch 3




perfecting the connection when turning and some cortados





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#12 Decorate the dance (adv.)




Ezgi Turmus Binici & Kat Gorsuch 4




All about torsion. Enrosque and cross - Bodymechanics and ideas to implement it in your dance





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#13 - Musicality (all levels)


Lily Chenlo 2


Learn more about the styles of the orchestras and contrast in the music. Strategies to dance the melodies and rhythms!



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

13 (norole) 

Tango Nuevo meets Tango Contact


Claudia Kreisz


!! This is a 3 hour workshop from 2pm - 5pm !!

1.part: TANGO NUEVO Discover and refine Nuevo dance technique and feeling with selected elements! With exercises consisting of energy, body work and tango dance technique, we create a foundation in an energetically pleasant and relaxed way that makes it easier for us to access Nuevo Flow and perform the demanding elements!
10 min break
2. part TANGO CONTACT FUSION Energy warm up - “Get from your head into your body” Get to know contact impro basic techniques with playful exercises and combine them with well-known tango elements and ornaments, recognize positions and stay in the flow!
Inspired by the music and the dissolution of the “roles”, the energetic and creative Tango Contact is created individually and authentically!



Price: €60

Remaining Spaces:

14

WS#14 - Ochos off the beaten track (all levels)


Astrid Weiske 2


Discover the endless possiblilities of ochos, linear and circular in order to dance them more varied. Learn to add musical flavor to your ocho movments that all is also a strategy for crowded dancefloors.
Basic knowlege of ochos is required!



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

7 (norole) 

WS#15 - Tango Milonguero


Walter Perez 3


Walking on the beat and double time. Ocho cortado with embellishments. Walking sideways. Calesita. Playful sequences you can use on the dance floor.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

22 (norole) 

Festival Milonga - Friday


DJ: Olivier Varlet (Paris)


Practica: 9:00 - 10:00pm with with Karen Johnson (Philadelphia) & Andres Ozzuna (San Francisco)

Milonga: 10pm

*Show: aprox. 11.30pm/: Fabian Kipp (Germany) & Carlos Paredes (Columbia)




Price: €22

Remaining Spaces:

Space Available

WS#16 - Milonga (interm.)




Ezgi Turmus Bininci & Kat Gorsuch 5




Ideas for joyful and musical milonga dancing.





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#17 - Welcome in the world of Enrosque. - (advance)


Dawid Belach 3


We're entering the world of turns. We'll work on the technique of a good balanced enrosque and various possibilities of this type of turn. From now on, you'll have more options for turning and changing direction in a truly original style.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

9 (norole) 

WS#18 - Foot Work (all levels)




Gaston Olguin & Manuco Firmani




From a "Parada" seven different ways to move on depending of your level. Find a full connection with your feet (lead/follow). Learn to never anticipate. Lead like an octopus, your feet are your first pair of hand. Followers paint a complete rainbow with your expressive feet.(Slides, barridas, boleos, ganchos, sacadas,)





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#19 - Technique of giros (adv.)


Lily Chenlo 3


from where we take the energy for beautiful and flowing giros !



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

17 (norole) 

WS#20 STRIKE A POSE (interm.)


Fabian Kipp 3


Step into the expressive world of stage tango and unleash your inner drama queen. A not-so-serious journey into the most iconic tango poses, sprinkled with tips on how to effortlessly incorporate them into your social dancing.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

20 (norole) 

WS#21 - Conexión and Embrace (interm)


Lily Chenlo 4


Connect with your energy and your partner



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

9 (norole) 

WS#22 - Single-axis turns (adv.)


Astrid Weiske 3


Single-axis turns are turns in which the leader and the follower are (as much as is possible) sharing an axis while spinning on one foot in place, and then exiting. Learn to create these wonderful and dynamic spins together.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

15 (norole) 

Gala Night at Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche - Saturday


DJ: Deborah Maus (Berlin)


Practica: 9:00 - 10:00pm with with Karen Johnson (Philadelphia) & Andres Ozzuna (San Francisco)

Milonga: 10pm - 5am

*Live-Music: Nochero Tangoquartett (Berlin)

Show:ca. 11.30pm with Ezgi Turmus Binici (Turkey) & Kathrine Gorsuch (Berlin/NYC)



Price: €30

Remaining Spaces:

Space Available

Fare-Well Milonga - Sunday


DJ: Peggy LaBaronne (Paris)


8:00-9:00 pm with live music by: Ana Stamponi y Brisa Videla (Buenos Aires)

Show approx 11.30 pm: Gaston Olguin & Manuco Firmani (BA) & Walter Perez (NYC)



Price: €12

Remaining Spaces:

Space Available

7.30 pm - 0.30 am

Official QT Festival Chill-out Milonga- Benefit Milonga for a Queer social project -

For all who stay longer in Berlin and all local Berlin Queer tangodancers - we will have a casual, relaxed chill-out milonga. Our intension is to support a LGBTI social project in Berlin with our dancing.

All entrance fees we donate like the past years to a LGBTI community project in Berlin

This year we donate all income to :

"Education under the rainbow" of Landesverband AndersARTIG e.V.





AndersARTIG e.V offers support and coaching for LSBTIQ-people - they coach individuals, teachers and institutions topices like coming-out, transition, relationships, love and sexual health or give support in cases of discrimination or violent incidents.

https://andersartig.info/

8:00 pm

Milonga El Contrapunto - official Festival collaboration -

For all who stay longer in Berlin and all local Berlin Queer tangodancers - we are more than happy to collaborate with our beloved Berlin queer and open role Milonga El Contrapunto hosted by Maria and Anna.

7-8 pm Open Class with Maria August und Gökce Ceren Haznedar (Berlin)

8pm - 1 am Milonga

live music: Ana Stamponi y Brisa Videla (Buenos Aires)

DJ: Jessica Carleson (Stockholm)

Door: Milonga 10-20 EUR sliding scale

Open Class & Milonga 15-20 EUR sliding scale

Venue:Regenbogenfabrik, Lausitzer Str. 21a, 10999 Berlin (Venue is in the backyard)