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Winter Edition 2027
5–14 February 2027 · Saalbau Fechenheim, Frankfurt am Main
Workshop · Weekend 1 “A Bailar”
W5 · Tango vals
Sunday, 7. February · 13:30–15:00 · Saal
Joaquín Amenábar
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Tango in three: dancing fluidly without falling into a waltz routine.
The vals has a charm of its own — and a trap of its own: if you always step on the one, you soon end up in a sameness that does not do the piece justice.
The workshop is about using the possibilities of the three-beat bar: the second and third beat as room to shape, the flow of the phrases, the interplay of turn and melody. Vals lives on lightness, not on speed.
What you take home
More variety in the vals and a feeling for where a phrase breathes — so that the dance feels carried rather than rushed.
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.