Brigitta Winkler-Round Trip & Roles in Tango May 2025

"Round Trip & Roles in Tango" Brigitta Winkler returns to Colorado for tango workshops exploring possibilities for exchanging lead & follow roles. An extraordinarily gifted teacher, Brigitta has been leading, following and merging roles in tango for 45 years. A founder of “Tango Mujer”, Brigitta was one of the first Europeans to study Tango and to visit Buenos Aires in the early 1980s. In 1986 she opened one of the first tangos studio in Berlin. Saturday, May 17 2:00-3:15 - Round trip & roles in Tango The common ground of roles is the knowledge and experience from one side transformed to the other, thus a full cycle experience and an ability to co-create. In Tango roles co-exist in the embrace and gender 3:30-4:45 - Methodology of Learning and Perceptions: There is an “opening” that allows conditioned moves to rearrange for a new experience and condition to be accessed - Process oriented learning - Somatic work: release and restorative techniques - body mind centering - Active integration time of bodywork to tango 8:00 - 12:00 Milonga (Boulder Tango Studio)* open to community Sunday, May 18 2:00-3:15 - Keeping the tradition of techniques: - Turns and Curves - Ochos and Options - Music “in the Body” 3:30-4:45 - Tango concepts and strategies how to co-create our dance. 5:30-6:30 - Brigitta teaches the pre-LocoTango Class 6:30-10:30 LocoTango Milonga with Live Music from: "Tangozo" - Avalon Ballroom, $20 Pricing: $135 Saturday, Sunday & Sat Milonga $55 for 2 classes Saturday $55 for 2 classes Sunday $15 Milonga Saturday - Open to community https://tango.org/events/brigitta-registration-2025 $20 Milonga Sunday hosted by LocoTango with Tangozo Locations & Directions Brigitta's May 17 & 18 weekend events are at the Boulder Tango Studio Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder, CO. The drive to the Avalon is about 30-40 minutes from Denver. Brigitta will also be teaching on Tuesday, May 20 at the Denver Turnverein, 1570 N Clarkson St, Denver, CO 80218, and on Thursday May 22 at the Colorado Dancesport NORTH,6830 Broadway Unit F, Denver, CO 80221. Brigitta will also teach in Denver on Tuesday, May 20 at the Denver Turnverein, and Thursday, May 22 workshops at the Colorado Dancesport NORTH. Open Milongas on Saturday & Sunday, May 17 & 18 and Tuesday, May 20, not to mention the glorious Cheesman Outdoor Milonga on Monday, May 26. Denver Close Encounters Encuentro https://tango.org/events/denver-close-encounters-tango-festival is an invitational tango encuentro over May 23 - 25.