Tango Immersion Weekend · July edition with Alan Forte from ARG

July 18.-19. Diving into musicality! 📍 Zentrum Exist — Sechshauser Str. 38-36, 1150 Wien (Seminarraum) This month we put the focus on musicality and have the luxury to have a special guest with us! Alan Forte, dancer and musician from Buenos Aires with international teaching experience, and Jessica Gerdel will help you translate music into movement in your body, the easy way. Join us for a weekend of deep dive into musicality and take your dance to the next level. The weekend starts with a bonus lesson with Jessica before the workshops start, helping you prepare your body for the weekend and gain tools to deepen your body awareness. As usual, you're welcome with and without a dance partner, and to learn both roles. Save your spot now on Jessica's Website or via PM and get ready for a smoother, more fluent and connected dance 💫 ☀ PROGRAM ☀ Saturday 15:00-16:00 Bonus lesson on body awareness/individual technique with Jessica Gerdel 16:30-18:00 Workshop 1 . Rhythmic elements of Tango Argentino 18:30-20:00 Workshop 2. Phrasing and changes in tempo throughout the different eras of Tango Argentino 20:15-22:00 Práctica Sunday* 15:30-17:00 Workshop 3. Musicality of Vals 17:20-18:50 Workshop 4. Musicality of Milonga 19:00-22:00 – Milonga Itinerante with live set by Alan Forte *This time the Tango & Movement Pedagogical Path session (which belongs to a separate program with Jessica) will take place on Sunday at 13:30-15:00. *** ABOUT TANGO IMMERSION: Join a different kind of tango training ✨ Tango Immersion is a module-based program where technique meets connection and improvisation, in a coherent path of embodied learning. It invites you to slow down, listen, and train consciously. Once a month, we meet for a Tango Immersion Weekend of in-depth learning, blending movement technique, partner communication, musicality, focused practice and a welcoming Milonga to anchor learning into social dance. Between Tango Immersion Weekends, a weekly Focused Práctica supports your growth, keeping your body, technique, and connection alive until the next Immersion Weekend. If you visit us from afar, you'll get tools to take home and continue training independently or with your tango community until we meet again. The result: lighter, clearer, more connected dancing in a shorter time span. Whether you’re new to this approach or already part of the Tango Immersion family, you’re welcome to join a practice that goes deeper than mechanically repeated steps. A practice that transforms how you move, relate, and express yourself through Tango Argentino. *** Why an ongoing intensive Tango Argentino training? Over the years, Jessica has taught typical classes and unconventional ones, shorter, longer, crash courses, workshop-style, comprehensive programs, and a long etc., with students from many different backgrounds – both cultural, personal, and specifically around dancing and moving. That experience showed her that intensive immersions offer a type of progress that weekly classes can’t provide — both are good, but serve differently. 💥 The Tango Immersion Program bridges that gap, helping you understand how movement works, build a body that responds instead of react, adapt to different dance partners without force, and feel more at ease in social dancing. Each month we work on a specific topic through different angles, with 5 workshops, a Focused Práctica and the monthly edition of our Milonga Itinerante 💫 A full journey that gives you depth and flexibility: you can join the full program or the parts of your choice. *** ✨ Our 2026 roadmap so far ✨ January was a precious time where we strengthened foundations and delved deep into weight & grounding. February's Tango Immersion Weekend continued the work, focusing on axis and presence, two elements that quietly shape everything we do in tango. March brought the third dance partner into focus: the music! We focused on foundations to translate the music we hear into the movements we dance, in a practical, embodied way. April was total luxury with guest teachers from Argentina, Irina Jabsa and Guadalupe Santiago, bringing elements from Contact Improvisation into Tango Argentino for a more fluid and connected dance. May deepened the work, diving into the infinite world of spirals, helping you improve your own movement and the ways you move with your dance partner within the embrace. June took us on a journey through tango vocabulary, exploring techniques of contact and invasion in popular figures like Mordidas/Sandwich, Pasadas, Barridas, Sacadas and Ganchos. It's not required to have attended previous editions of the program to join us. If you're curious about any previous topic, you can book a private lesson with Jessica and bring it into your dance. *** Tango Immersion Weekends 📍 Zentrum Exist — Sechshauser Str. 38-36, 1150 Wien Ring the bell Seminarraum ✨ Full program and registration at www.jessicagerdel.com ✨ 🗓️ 2026 TANGO IMMERSION WEEKENDS - Save the dates! Jan 17-18 Feb 14-15 Mar 7-8 Apr 17-19 with guest teachers Irina Jabsa and Guadalupe Santiago from Argentina! May 16-17 June 20-21 July 18-19 with guest teacher and musician Alan Forte from Argentina! Aug: Summer break Sep 19-20 Oct 2-4 special Tango Weekend with guests from Buenos Aires Alejandro Beron and Kelly Lettieri! Nov 21-22