9.-14.2.2027 International Festival of Contact Improvisation & Tango Wuppertal
Save you place at the ContacTango Festival Wuppertal – the place to exchange and research about ContacTango full of experienced teachers and dancers as well as welcoming all newcomers!
Registration possible now: info@gabrielekoch.net
ContacTango Festival is continuing! Since more than 15 years we fill the Insel and the Cafe ADA, place of art, culture, dance theatre and Tango Argentino!
The Festival focusses to support on a vivid exchange about Contact Improvisation, Tango und ContacTango.
Das ContacTango Festival geht weiter. Seit mehr als 15 Jahren füllen wir die Insel und das Cafe ADA– ein Ort für Kunst, Kultur, Tanztheater und Tango Argentino!
Das Festival legt den Fokus auf einen lebendigen Austausch über Contact Improvisation, Tango und ContacTango.
We are in work … over the next weeks all detail will be updated
- the timetable
- the teacher description
You love to dance, improvise and play arround?
You love to deepen your dance capacity, finetune and improve your dance, if Tango or Contact?
The Festival offers capacity for dancers of any level to experience the fusion of Tango Argentino und Contact Improvisation and catch playfulness, intensity and freedom in this symbiosis.
Du möchtest einen einfachen Zugang zum Tango Argentino?
Du liebst es zu tanzen, zu improvisieren und spielerisch zu entdecken?
Du willst deine tänzerischen Fähigkeiten vertiefen, verfeinern und verbessern – sei es im Tango oder in der Contact Improvisation?
DAS IST DEIN EVENT!!!
Neben jährlich wechselnden internationalen Lehrer*innen, die ihre vielfältigen Einflüsse teilen, sind auch ehemalige Lehrende eingeladen, das Festival zu unterstützen.
Wir haben viel Raum für intensiven Austausch in einer Gruppe wunderbarer Menschen – um Verbindungen aufzubauen, zu experimentieren, zu kuscheln, zu spielen, tief ins Embodiment einzutauchen und gemeinsam zu fließen.
Das Festival bietet Tänzer*innen aller Erfahrungsstufen die Möglichkeit, die Fusion von Tango Argentino und Contact Improvisation zu erleben – und dabei Verspieltheit, Intensität und Freiheit in dieser einzigartigen Symbiose zu entdecken.
Timetable in Work
Teachers:
Alon Ritter/Isr/Por
Gabriele Koch/D
Katharina Frimont/D
Sven Elze/D
Margarethe Wäckerle & Uli Vollgraf/D
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Gabriele Koch
Movement has been her form of expression since childhood. Through various paths such as ballet, artistic gymnastics, and forms of modern dance, she found her way to contemporary dance, improvisation, and contact improvisation, which for her represent the greatest diversity of possibilities as well as authenticity. Around 25 years ago, she fell in love with Argentine tango. It was therefore natural to combine both dance forms. In her own research journey in ContacTango/Contango, a desire grew to exchange ideas with other researchers. This led to the creation of the first ContacTango Festival in Wuppertal 15 years ago.
For her, dance always means staying alive and discovering new paths. Gabriele is a Somatic Movement Educator in Body-Mind Centering. Personal development and the joy of movement flow into her teaching. In addition to running her own studio, she works regionally, throughout Germany, and internationally.
SUPPORTER PRICE: If you have sufficient means, we warmly invite you to add an amount of 20 – 50,- € to the festival price. This way, we will support young people or individuals with fewer resources from challenging regions by 100%, enabling them to participate in the festival. If you fall into this category, please apply informally via email.
Stay overnight
FULL PACKAGE: 6 Tage Unterricht, Research, Jamilongas, Austausch etc. inklusive Mitagesen Mitwoch bis Samstag
Early Bird bis 30. November 490,- €; danach 540,- €.
WEEKEND SPECIAL: Freitagabend bis Sonntag, inklusive Mittagessen am Samstag
Early Bird 225,- €; später 255,- €.
SUPPORTER-PREIS:
Wenn du über ausreichende finanzielle Mittel verfügst, laden wir dich herzlich ein, einen Betrag von 20–50,- € zum Festivalpreis hinzuzufügen. Auf diese Weise unterstützen wir junge Menschen oder Personen mit geringeren finanziellen Ressourcen aus herausfordernden Regionen zu 100 % und ermöglichen ihnen die Teilnahme am Festival.
Wenn du zu dieser Gruppe gehörst, die Unterstützung benötigt, bewirb dich bitte formlos per E-Mail.
Übernachtung
10.8.-15.8.2027 International Festival of Contact Improvisation & Tango Barnin
Save you place at the amazing farmhouse beside a beautifull lake in Barnin – between Hamburg and Berlin!
… just for a bunch of crazylovely ContacTango Aficonados!
Registration possible 1rst April: info@gabrielekoch.net
ContactTango in the summerly magical atmosphere of the beautiful Barnin. After the indescribably amazing festival in the winterly Wuppertal, we enjoy for the third time a complete feeling in the midst of nature just for ourselves, diving deep and with ease into Tango, Contact, and ContactTango!
Barnin is surrounded by meadows and forests- There is a private lake space, a fire place and sauna. We have a beutifull studio and the oppotunity to dance in warm summer nights outside, on the open-air dance floor under the starry sky. Nature and dance can connect with the lightness of summer.
The festival focuses on promoting lively exchanges about Contact Improvisation, Tango, and ContacTango. In addition to the annually changing international highly experienced ContacTango teachers who share their diverse influences, there is ample space to engage intensively with a group of wonderful people-
We create connections, experiment, cuddle, play, explore body awareness, and flow together. The festival offers space for dancers of all levels to experience the fusion of Tango Argentino and Contact Improvisation, finding joy, intensity, and freedom in this symbiosis.
THE PLACE:
Amseltango
Lindenstraße 10C 19089 Barnin
Amseltangomaps
Flights to Hamburg or Berlin Train to Schwerin or Crivits
Pick up from Schwerin/Crivitz Shared rides orga
Pictures: Boat at lake; dance studio; area; outside danceplace
SUPPORTER PRICE: If you have sufficient means, we warmly invite you to add an amount of 20 – 50,- € to the festival price. This way, we will support young people or individuals with fewer resources from challenging regions by 100%, enabling them to participate in the festival. If you fall into this category, please apply informally via email.
Stay overnight
We can offer double rooms, three bed rooms, 4 + 6 people appartments are available
Camping 20-25,-€/night
FULL PACKAGE: 6 Tage Unterricht, Research, Jamilongas, Austausch etc. inklusive überwiegend biologischer Verpflegung von Dienstagabend bis Sonntagmittag.
Early Bird bis ,- €; danach ,- €.
WEEKEND SPECIAL: Freitagabend bis Sonntag, inklusive Verpflegung von Freitagabend bis Sonntagmittag + Übernachtung.
Early Bird- €; später ,- €.
SUPPORTER PRICE: If you have sufficient means, we warmly invite you to add an amount of 20 – 50,- € to the festival price. This way, we will support young people or individuals with fewer resources from challenging regions by 100%, enabling them to participate in the festival. If you fall into this category, please apply informally via email.
Stay overnight
We can offer double rooms, three bed rooms, 4 + 6 people appartments are available
Camping 20-25,-€/night