7.00 pm

Get together Milonga -

For all who are earlier in Berlin and all local Berlin Queer tangodancers - we will have a casual, milonga at National Monument at Viktoria Park Kreuzberg with top view over the city - Just hang out, bring your own drinks and dance!

DJ: Lukas Engelmann (Berlin)

Free entrance

WS#01 - Milonga Lisa (all)


Leonardo Sardella


Milonga is a fast Tango rhythm, cheerful and playful. Discover the origins of this dance (African roots, habanera and candombe). Exercise finding the beat. Steps that travel sideways and facing the line of dance . La baldosa, simple with turns and soltadas.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

11 (norole) 

WS#02 - Make your turns easy like walking - (all)


Dawid Belach & Tomasz Sepowicz


Giro, lapiz, enrosque make you uncomfortable? It's time to change it! We will improve your body technique making these figures more natural, more organic and much easier.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

3 (norole) 

WS#03 - Double time: (interm./adv)




Kat Gorsuch & Carlos Blanco




create musical wealth/ using in different combinations





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#04 - Vals (inter.)


Astrid Weiske


Heartbeat is 3/4 pulse. We discover different Vals rhythms within well known repertoire in order to make our dance dynamic and playful. We are playing with the music on the spot but also floating through space and time together. Do not miss Astrid's great Vals secrets ;-)



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

10 (norole) 

WS#05 - Chakarera (All)


Arts Klints & Esteban Sabaria


Chacarera is a lively argentine folk dance where a couple travels around seducing each other until they meet at the end of the song. During this workshop you will explore the meaning of the figures, the connection with your partner dancing to different types of music and some other details to fully enjoy this dance so widely played at milongas and festivals.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

18 (norole) 

WS#06 - Quality of movement - (All)


Brigitta Winkler
assisted by Marc VanZwoll


Exploration and approach with step examples



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

5 (norole) 

WS#07 - Change of the dynamics and energy during the dance (adv.)


Arts Klints & Esteban Sabaria


It is not only sophisticated steps what makes you a great milonguero! You can charge your Tango energetically by mixing different dynamics, by creating and releasing tension, by blending dramatic pauses with decisive movements, by adding a pinch of emotional expression.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

14 (norole) 

WS#08 - Spirals & circular movements (int.)


Leoardo Sardella


Fun combination for social dancing: Aguja, enrosques, planeos and Lapiz for both roles.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

7 (norole) 

WS#9 - Milonga




Kat Gorsuch & Carlos Blanco




Technique and variations





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

Festival Opening Milonga at Bebop Berlin- Thursday


DJ: Gaia Caminni (Rome)


Practica: 9:00 - 10:00pm with Celine Tiberghien (Paris)

Milonga: 10pm *Show:ca. 11.30 p.m. - Art Klints & Esteban Esteban Sabaria (BA)
DJ: Gaia Camanni (Rome)



Price: €22

Remaining Spaces:

Space Available

WS#10 - Make your Tango more sensual (all)




Dawid Belach & Tomasz Sepowicz




We will work with elements which make you more focused on the movement and connection with your partner. This will help you to implement more sensual motions to your dance and make your tango more pleasant, where Leader and Follower become one, creating a true tangofulness.





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#11 - The Game of Roles (interm.)


Brigitta Winkler
assisted by Marc VanZwoll


Indulge into one embrace all roles



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

17 (norole) 

WS#12 - Dynamic of Giros & Sacadas (interm.)




Kat Gorsuch & Carlos Blanco




Informations for different type of sacadas and creating constant turns





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#13 - Argentine Tango Vals (adv.)


Leonardo Sardella


Romantic and smooth; glade skating the whole floor. Playful figures that transport us to a ride in a carrousel



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

13 (norole) 

Experimental Tango Concepts- COMMUNICATION & CREATIVITY in MOTION


Mila Morandi Maiorelli (Rome)


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

We will explore state of presence, relation, communication and connection through movement and dance.

In this workshop we experience a flow of sensory presence and awareness, of gesture, action, movement, which become an essential vector of artistic and/or personal expression, creation and transformation

In the moving relationship we exchange roles, leader or follower, experiencing both leading and following, and all the possibilities in between, as polarizations and evolutions of the encounter, offering the possibility of transforming, reversing, articulating our movement style



Price: €60

Remaining Spaces:

5

WS#14 - Posture, Walking and Musicality ( all)




Leo Sardella




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.
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:


SOLD OUT!

WS#15 - The art of letting go (interm.)


Astrid Weiske


basic concepts of opening the embrace for playful flowing with different forms of the embrace and opportunities for role change



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

7 (norole) 

WS#16 -Push the limits: Back Sacadas for both roles -(inter./adv)




Kat Gorsuch & Carlos Blanco




Key technique for comfort





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

Festival Milonga at Bebop - Friday


DJ: Art Klints (BA)


Practica: 9:00 - 10:00pm with Celine Tiberghien (Paris)

Milonga: 10pm *Show:ca. 11.30pm/ DJ: Art Klints (BA)- Show: Leonardo Sardella (NYC/BA) & Carlos Blanco (Mexico City)



Price: €22

Remaining Spaces:

Space Available

WS#17 - Tango vals (all)




Kat Gorsuch & Carlos Blanco




Flowing combinations and different uses of rhythm.





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#18 - Make your Tango more musical - (interm.)


Dawid Belach & Tomasz Sepowicz


We dance to the music – we all know that, but how can we improve our movement and steps depending on energy created by the orchestra? In this workshop we will focus on so called qualities of the step.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

5 (norole) 

WS#19 - Argentine Zamba (all)


Arts Klints & Esteban Sabaria


Zamba is the most romantic and sensual Argentinean folkloric dance. We will start the class with the basic steps and structure of Zamba as well as we will also dive into the relation within the dance couple and the emotional expression of the dancers.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

17 (norole) 

WS#20 - Foot Work (inter.)


Leonardo Sardella


From a "Parada" seven different ways to move on.
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.



Price: €35

Remaining Spaces:

1 (norole) 

WS#21 - Ocho Cortado Millionaire - (interm./adv)




Brigitta Winkler
assisted by Marc VanZwoll




a landmark element and its variations





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#22 - Cambio de frente (interm)




Arts Klints & Esteban Sabaria




Cambio de frente is walking forward while rotating together with your partner at the same time. We use (and recommend) it when in a milonga you have got a space to advance, but are a bit tired and bored of just walking forward. This is the right moment for the cambio de frente (caminata girada)!





Price: €35


Remaining Spaces:


SOLD OUT!

WS#23 - Single-axis turns (adv.)


Astrid Weiske


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:

1 (norole) 

Gala Night at Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche - Saturday


DJ: Olivier Varlet (Paris)


Practica: 9:00 - 10:00pm Celine Tiberghien (Parid)
DJ: Olivier Varlet (Paris)
Milonga: 10pm - 5am *Live-Music: Cuartetto Rotterdam
Show:ca. 11.30pm with Ezgi Turmus (Turkey) & Kathrine Gorsuch (Berlin/NYC)



Price: €30

Remaining Spaces:

Space Available

Fare-Well Milonga at Bebop - Sunday


DJ: Deborah Maus (Berlin)






Price: €12

Remaining Spaces:

Space Available

7.00 pm

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 will donate all income towards the IVIM / OII GERMANY e.V.



IVIM / OII Germany
OII Germanys vision is a world in which intersex people are recognized as part of human diversity and protected from unauthorized interference and discrimination. A world where they are visible, celebrated and their human rights respected.

https://oiigermany.org/