28.7.-2.8.2026   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 now: 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!

We are in work … over the next weeks all detail will be updated

  • the timetable
  • the teacher description
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 group size of no more than 40 participants creates a relaxed and familial atmosphere, providing space for us to deeply engage in dance and exchange.
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.

Cacu Lucero was born by the sea in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Since 2016 organice with other friends tangocontact and contact impro festivals in different cities of Argentina.
He has been teaching dance for 23 years. Exploring, fusing, playing.

Since 2005 he tours mainly in Europe sharing workshops and seminars of tangocontact, milonga, tango and musicality in tango. Tango queer and dance laboratories as well. He also toured in Different countries of Latin America and many cities inside Argentina.

In the tangocontact classes, he seeks that each person can express his or her own dance, connecting with the technique and possibilities of tango along with the somatic exploration that facilitates contact improvisation. The music plays a fundamental role in the interpretation and improvisation. Technique fused with chaos. Poetry fused with structure

Some more at Instagram @cacu.lucero

Biljana Lipic
Serbian/British from former Yugoslavia, Biljana Lipic is an internationally acclaimed teacher and dancer. She is the founder of Zero Hour, one of London’s most popular tango clubs, and now plays a key role in supporting the growth of tango in Cornwall. Besides London, she started off tango communities in Scotland and Devon in the UK, and in Belgrade, Serbia. A pioneer of women leading in tango, her approach engages dancers deeply with their bodies, movement and the environment in ways that moves them beyond steps into subtle perceptions, energy attunement and the space between each other – where the dance begins to emerge through the listening rather than doing and what the embodied heart already knows. She is a creator of Shamanic Tango, a body-based spirituality process, an artist and writer/director, as well as a boat-dweller.

Delia Spatareanu
Born in Romania and now based in Scotland, Delia Spatareanu is a licensed Movement Educator in Body-Mind Centering® and a trainee counsellor in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy. She approaches movement as an invitation to awareness and spontaneity, exploring how attention and intention can support a return to an innate state of “minimum effort, maximum grace.” (after Lynn Margulis) As a Kincentric Leadership Fellow, she is especially interested in eco-somatics, more-than-human ways of sensing and relating, and reciprocal ways of living and learning. Her work bridges community practice, creative inquiry, and embodied learning. Her passion lies at the intersections of borders, cultures, and ecosystems, in the living questions of relationship, reciprocity, and belonging: where do we end, and where does the other begin?

 

Drawing on tango and somatic practice, Biljana and Delia’s workshops are centering the theme of perception as a motor act, exploring how movement arises through attunement to self, other, and environment.

Felipe DJ Don has been passionately dancing ConTango for more than ten years. He previously danced Argentine tango, contact improvisation and other dances, and is enthusiastic about the playful yet deep and expansive space that opens up through the combination of these dances in ConTango.

 

Felipe will guide you mindfully from connecting with your body into the multifaceted world of ConTango—dance authentically and mindfully in the space and with others, find your balance with your partner, play with embraces, discover your musicality, feel the connection with yourself, your partner, and the group. Felipe pays attention to the group’s flow and, depending on the energy, incorporates elements of touch-positive space, the interplay of yin and yang, somatic intimacy, and embodied community into the dance.                    

Felipe has also been DJing as DJ Don for over 10 years – he is the resident DJ at NeOLonga Miloca in Oldenburg, where he also regularly gives ConTango classes. His passion is danceable, diverse and atmospheric neo/non and classic tango with a wide range of styles. He has also played at various (neo)tango festivals, e.g. the International Festival of ContactTango, PHANTASTango, NeoTangoRave, Totally in Tango, QTM Hamburg.

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.

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

 

Teachers:

Cacu Lucero/ARG
Biljana Lipic/SRB/GB
Delia Spatareanu/RO/GB
Felipe/D
Gabriele Koch/D

FULL PACKAGE: 6 days of classes, research, jamilongas, exchange etc plus mostly organic food Tuesday evening -Sunday lunch
Early Bird till June 15th 515,-€ after 555,-€ plus shared rooms 35,-€ – 60,- €/night. Camping 20/25,-€/night
WEEKEND SPECIAL Friday evening to Sunday including food from Friday evening to Sunday lunch + sleeping. Early Bird 260,-€, later 290,-€

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 15. Juni: 515,- €; danach 555,- €.
Mehrbettzimmer: 35,- € – 60,- € pro Nacht.
Camping: 20,-/25,- € pro Nacht.

WEEKEND SPECIAL: Freitagabend bis Sonntag, inklusive Verpflegung von Freitagabend bis Sonntagmittag + Übernachtung.
Early Bird 260,- €; später 290,- €.

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

Wir können Doppelzimmer, Dreibettzimmer sowie 4- und 6-Personen-Apartments anbieten.
Camping: 20–25,- € pro Nacht.

info@gabrielekoch.net

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2027 International Festival of Contact Improvisation & Tango Wuppertal

 

ContacTango Festival is continuing! Since 15 years we fill the Insel, 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 15 Jahren füllen wir die Insel – ein Ort für Kunst, Kultur, Tanztheater und Tango Argentino!
Das Festival legt den Fokus auf einen lebendigen Austausch über Contact Improvisation, Tango und ContacTango.

I´m very happy about that amazing professional and experienced teachers team:

Ich bin sehr froh auf dieses großartige, professionelle und erfahrene Lehrer*innen-Team:

We are in work … over the times all detail will be updated

  • the timetable
  • the teacher description
  • impressions & information about the location
  • booking information
  • booking formular
International Festival of Contact Improvisation Tango Wuppertal – 1rst ContacTango Festival ever back in City Of Dance!
You want to have an easy acces to Tango Argentino?
You love to dance, improvise and play arround?
You love to deepen your dance capacity, finetune and improve your dance, if Tango or Contact?
THIS IS YOUR EVENT!!!
Beside yearly changing international teachers, who share there multiple influences, former Teachers are invited to support the Festival.
We have a lot of space to exchange intensiv within a group of wonderful people, built connection, experiment, cuddle, play, dive deep into embodiment and float together.
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.

Internationales Festival für Contact Improvisation und Tango in Wuppertal – Das erste ContacTango Festival überhaupt zurück in der „City of Dance“!
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.

FULL PACKAGE: 6 days of classes, research, jamilongas, exchange etc plus
Early Bird till 
WEEKEND SPECIAL Friday evening to Sunday including food from Friday evening to Sunday lunch + sleeping. Early Bird

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

 

Ich möchte mich zum Festival anmelden