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Winter Edition 2027
5–14 February 2027 · Saalbau Fechenheim, Frankfurt am Main
Workshop · Weekend 1 “A Bailar”
W3 · Tango style: cadencia, arrastre, fraseos
Saturday, 6. February · 15:30–17:00 · Saal
Joaquín Amenábar
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Also included in Workshop pass · weekend 1 “A Bailar”Workshop pass · both weekends
Three means of expression that make the difference between correct and beautiful.
Cadencia, arrastre and fraseo are not figures but ways of colouring a movement. The cadencia is the sway that carries a movement. The arrastre draws the movement across the floor instead of placing it. The fraseo stretches and gathers time within a phrase — the way a singer shapes a line.
These three turn correctly danced steps into a style. The workshop practises them one by one and in combination, each with fitting music.
What you take home
A repertoire of expression that works regardless of your step vocabulary and makes your own dance recognisable at once.
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.