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 Heidelberg) and Munich (mostly at "Mi Pequeño Buenos Aires").

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

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 higly improvised and has two stable axes to work with (i.e. what Tango Nuevo seems to be about?)

favorite music

Old style tangos. Complexity. Slow, steady beat -- but much emotion. Happy or sad -- both is OK.

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

No Milonga. Instead NeoTango.

timeline

Munich

2002 first contact with tango: behinner'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