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Winter Edition 2027
5–14 February 2027 · Saalbau Fechenheim, Frankfurt am Main
Workshop · Weekend 2 “Los Maestros”
W9 · Off-beat
Saturday, 13. February · 15:30–17:00 · Saal
Joaquín Amenábar
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Dancing beside the beat on purpose — and still being precise.
Off-beat means using the unstressed beats instead of the expected ones. That is demanding, because you must not lose sight of the basic pulse: dancing beside it without knowing where the beat is, is not off-beat but simply wrong.
The workshop practises exactly this double task — staying with the pulse inside while stepping beside it outside. Used well, it creates a tension the music audibly takes up.
What you take home
The confidence to dance against expectation on purpose — and to know when it suits the music.
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.