Milonga with live music preceded by a workshop
1900-20:30 Workshop: Dance the blues with Isabella and Thierry 15 Euros
Isabelle and Thierry (FRA) invite you to explore how to bring a Blues feeling and connection into your NeoTango. This workshop offers a fresh way to enrich your dance, combining the expressive qualities of Blues with the elegance and precision of Tango.
Many tracks played at NeoTango events carry a distinct blues vibe. These pieces can be danced using either a Tango or a Blues style. Choosing between the two depends on your musical sensitivity, improvisation, and technical awareness.
Their approach emphasizes pure technique, regardless of the music genre used. Whether we dance in a Tango or Blues frame, we aim for clarity, balance, and authentic expression. This freedom allows us to interpret the music in the way we truly feel it: sometimes through Tango, sometimes through Blues.
Workshop Content:
* Key elements of Blues dance: body movement, grounded rhythm, and resiliency
* Understanding of the Blues connection: tension and compression
* Playing with rhythm and musical interaction
* Walking with Blues technique
* Combining Blues and Tango connections smoothly and cleanly.
20:30-01:00 DJ Thierry (Toulouse) Trad&Neo&Blues 10 euro
DJ Thierry (FRA) – Thierry is above all a creative dancer who “lives” the music. He practiced many social dances (swing, blues, salsa, tango…) before starting to DJ NeoTango. Of course, he loves tango from the golden age, but what makes him vibrate is to open, enrich, and mix practices toward new musical and corporeal horizons which brings him to NeoTango. Nice melodies, emotion, and changes in rythms and intensity are Thierry’s music markers. With Thierry you can expect a musical journey. Thierry deejayed all over Europe in so many events that he lost the count of it. Thierry is organizer of several NeoTango events : the Toulouse NeoTango , the NeoTango Bruges, the NeoTango Meissen and the NeoTango Summer Camp near Dresden.
The blues band Ramblin’ Dog will play two 25-minute sets (21:30 and 23:30)
Playing acoustic blues with passion and enjoyment is the driving force behind the four illustrious gentlemen of Ramblin’ Dog. Their repertoire consists of both original compositions and self-arranged songs by major blues artists in various styles, making them delightfully varied. The instrumentation, consisting of guitars, blues harp, bass, percussion, and fantastic vocals, also contributes to this.
The four musicians have extensive musical experience, which is evident in their mix of sensitive, swinging, and above all, passionately played blues songs. Ramblin’ Dog gives you goosebumps and the urge to dance.
Ramblin’ Dog consists of:
Joep de Greef – vocals (lead), blues harp, and guitar
Frank Reemers – vocals and guitar (lead)
Markus Trum – bass
Maurice Meesters – cajon and percussion
Admission is free for blues fans who don’t dance.
(Also, this weekend: technique with Mariano and Cosima: https://www.tangomasterclass.com/scala)