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Winter Edition 2027
5–14 February 2027 · Saalbau Fechenheim, Frankfurt am Main
Workshop · Weekend 1 “A Bailar”
W2 · Dancing the melody in tango
Saturday, 6. February · 13:30–15:00 · Saal
Joaquín Amenábar
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Also included in Workshop pass · weekend 1 “A Bailar”Workshop pass · both weekends
From the beat to the melody: following the singing part of the music, not just the pulse.
If you walk securely on the beat, half of the music still lies ahead of you. Above the pulse lies the melody — with its own accents, its own arcs and its own breath, which do not keep to a fixed grid.
In this workshop you learn to hear this second layer and to follow it in your dancing: sometimes going along, sometimes waiting, sometimes stressing a single note. Your dance becomes softer and more personal without becoming more complicated.
What you take home
The ability to switch between rhythm and melody — and with it a way to make quite different dances out of the same steps.
About Joaquín Amenábar
Joaquín Amenábar's workshops teach no steps and no figures. He works with listening, movement and intuition, plays his musical examples live on the bandoneon and does without musical jargon. No musical knowledge is needed — the exercises are designed so that everyone can work on them at their own level of dancing. The workshops are taught in German.