Tango UK workshop weekends

Jenny Frances and Ricardo Oria
UK/Argentina

It is a great pleasure for us to welcome back this amazing tango couple to Bramshaw. They have taught Tangks for several years running and always make a huge impression on our dance community.

Jenny and Ricardo have a strong foundation of study for their dance, from which they build creatively, moved and inspired by the music and the subtle yet powerful conversation within the embrace. They use their extensive teaching experience to offer the best they can to their students, understanding the responsibility of teaching tango dance and approaching it with joy.

Jenny and Ricardo emphasise the importance in learning tango of gaining a sense of your partner, a sense of yourself and a sense of the music. Not only teaching ‘what’, but also ‘how’ and prioritising steps that are useful in social dancing.

Our workshop weekends demand a lot from visiting teachers as they deliver group workshops, private lessons, demonstration dances and getting to know us all - Jenny & Ricardo always generously deliver 110% and leave us wanting more.

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Korey Ireland and Adeline Scheiferstein
USA/Germany

It is with great pleasure that we announce Korey's return to Bramshaw his wife and dance partner Adeline Scheiferstein.

The Tangk will draw on Korey's skills as a teacher and as a musician to lead workshops with a focus on making the most of the music in your dance. Korey has taught with Mila in the past, but this year he is partnered by Adeline, a beautiful, expressive dancer and teacher from Berlin. Korey has always made a huge impression of participants in previous workshops and we expect the event to sell out very quickly. Booking is open now.

Adeline Schieferstein is amongst the most sought after dancers and instructors working in Berlin. She teaches regularly at Mala Junta, Berlin's largest tango school, and is a guest instructor at Tango Tanzen Macht Schon and Nou.

Her training includes 10 years of jazz dance, 7 years of tango (including intensive study in Buenos Aires) training in dance pedagogy at IEG in Berlin, and the El Corte teacher training program with Eric Jeurisen in Nijmegen, Holland. She has a deep interest in her students, their process of learning, and the joy that they find in tango.

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Ines Moussavi and Constantin Rüger
Germany

The inimitable Ines and Constantin always deliver a superb weekend of workshops at Bramshaw. We announce them as 'world class teachers ' with no hyperbole intended and it is with great pleasure that we host them for two events this year.

We select teachers for a Tangk for their combination of beautiful dancing, accomplished teaching technique and a generosity of spirit which allows them to focus the hearts and minds of our dancers for the whole weekend.

Ines is a teacher's teacher who offers a profound understanding and delivers effortless elegance in her tango teaching and dancing.

Constantin has a playful energy and lighthearted approach which makes their classes a joyful experience. But don't be fooled by his 'cheeky' nature, he is a brilliant dancer and astute teacher with an eye for the smallest details.

Together they will make a learning experience you will never forget. Tangk video

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Melina Sedo and Detlef Engel
Germany

We are delighted that Bramshaw hosted this fantastic couple's first UK workshop in 2009. Little known in the UK, they are well respected in Europe and the USA and are invited to perform in the birthplace of tango - Buenos Aires.

The Super Tangk they taught in 2009 was regarded by many as being the best ever. It was a great joy and privilege for me to experience their teaching style at first hand as I partnered one of our tangueras.

The content and style of their teaching will reach into the nooks and crannies of your dance, nipping and tucking little faults and inconsistancies that you are not aware of and improve your dance, your posture and your ability to communicate across the embrace (from both dancer's perspectives) in a way that you would not believe is possible. They did this to my dance and I can't wait to experience a second installment.

If I had to sum up their teaching in one sentence it would be: Melina and Detlef completely changed my dance for the better in one weekend!

Such is the virtuosity and elegance of this couple, even though their demonstration dance remained focussed on pure salon tango technique and simple musicality - it made more of an impression on our dance community than any other demo we have featured.

Siobhan Richards and Michael Lavocah
The Netherlands / UK

Michael Lavocah is a highly experienced tango teacher and dancer (16 years), regularly invited to dance camps in England and the Netherlands. His teaching emphasizes dancing as a natural and joyful activity, focussing on musicality and body awareness.

He knows tango music inside out and brings this depth of knowledge into his lessons with passion, humour, simplicity and clarity. Michael also works internationally as a tango DJ.

As well as working within tango, Michael has been playing and teaching Tai Chi for 20 years and is a craniosacral therapist in private practice. These fields inform and enhance his approach to the body within tango dance.

Siobhan has danced Argentine tango for more than 10 years and since 2007 has taught with several partners under the name of her school Las Rosas del Tango. Her teaching focusses on the connection between the dancers and with the music, and the subtlety of movement that comes from relaxing into the dance.

Besides her tango school, Siobhan is also a body psychoterapist in private practice.

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Marek and Olivera
UK

Marek and Olivera have been teaching tango since 2001, including five years in Wisconsin, USA, and four years in Paris, France. In addition, they have taught workshops in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and the Czech Republic.

In November 2009, they moved to London, where they teach classes and workshops.

They teach tango salón based on fundamentals such as embrace, posture, and walk. Their philosophy is to teach students to develop sensitivity and awareness of the body, essential for a harmonious
connection with their partner. Their workshops also emphasize floor craft and musicality, concentrating on distinguishing the dance according to the particular orchestras.

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Stefan and Komala
The Netherlands

Stefan and Komala's names are synonomous with El Corte, the home of tango excellence in The Netherlands run by Eric Jørissen.

These gifted teachers and elegant, musical dancers have taught at Bramshaw in the past to the acclaim of our students.

This year we are delighted to welcome them back to inspire and enthuse us all with their teaching style. We are really looking forward to seeing them again.

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Steve Morrall
UK

Steve is a life long musician, playing piano and a collection of other instruments, including bandoneon. He has been teaching tango since 2000 with his wife Debbie.

In May 2010 they opened their own dance studio at Bramshaw and added a course in tango musicality to their curriculum. The success of the course and the improvement it created in students has encouraged Steve to add musicality workshops to their Tango Tangk weekends.

The workshops focus on the music using simple, everyday language. The pedagogic process teaches dancers how to 'play' their body as if it was a musical instrument, and play along with the music.

Each workshop has a focussed theme, using a specific orchestra and rhythm. Wolfgang Sandt of La Rogaia, Italy describes Steve's teaching as follows:
"We host maestos like Naveira and Salas here at Rogaia, but your class on Vals musicality was the best I have experienced."