User:Danikaes

I live in Ludwigshafen, where there actually is some tango, contrary to public belief! You can find me at milongas in Rhein-Neckar (mostly Mannheim and Heidelberg).

Webmaster of Rhein-Neckar-Tango http://www.rhein-neckar-tango.de and http://www.tangasm.net

My blog is at http://www.dekay.org

Member of the "Tango 2.0" group, trying to bring tango to web 2.0 (http://groups.google.com/group/tango-20), founded by Peter Forret.

favorite styles

Anything that is close embrace, higly improvised and has two stable axes to work with. Simple if possible.

favorite music

Old style tangos. Complexity. Not the linear, one-dimensional modern tangos or electro tangos.

Valses. Non-traditional valses: like Androgyne or the stuff by Yann Thiersen (e.g. from the soundtrack to "Amelie"), stuff by Lydie Auvrai

Milonga, too.

timeline

Munich

2002 first contact with tango: beginner's workshop with Tango Maldito; first series of classes with Sonja Armisen, learning both open embrace and close embrace. Tango Fusion Club was started around that time in Munich.

2003 much dancing, some workshops with Fernando and Vilma, Volker (Freiburg),

2004 started first workshops, practicas with Michael and Patrizia, as well as Raul and Karina

2006 regular classes with Michael and Patrizia, slowly adopting to Tango Nuevo's physics and technique, although not yet starting with "flashy dancing" as is often associated with Nuevo.

2007 moved to Ludwigshafen. Started the webpage http://www.rhein-neckar-tango.de

2009 first encounters with tango marathons, El corte. Started the project http://www.tangasm.net

2010 Started the project http://www.tangomarathons.com "Tango Marathon Directory"