Jessica Gerdel
Ever wondered what’s the magic behind the deep connection everyone talks about in Tango Argentino?
When tango feels stuck, tense or inconsistent, it’s never about learning more steps.
If you’re part of the Tango Immersion Program, you already know it.
There’s something more essential (and often overlooked) that makes your tango functional, adaptable, expressive and alive.
The outcome feels like magic: you and your dance partner floating on a cloud by the end of the Tanda.
Maybe you’ve experienced it already but once in a while or with just a few partners.
It’s not lottery.
There are tools to make it happen more often than rarely.
Some dances feel easy while others frustrating?
Balance disappears at the wrong moment?
Close embrace feels tense or unclear?
Things work until they suddenly don’t?
A Tango Weekend with special guests Irina Jabsa and Guadalupe Santiago from Argentina awaits you to unlock greater freedom in your dance.
We prepared a juicy program for you to enjoy and enhance your Tango in a very special way, and can’t wait to see you discovering new dimensions of your dance:
✨ Private lessons
✨ Guided práctica
✨ 4 weekend workshops
✨ And 4 milongas: Performance and live music included!
All carefully prepared to make your feet and heart smile in an extended Tango Weekend, while leaving you time to rest and relax in-between or to explore the city if you visit us from abroad.
Tango Argentino meets Contact Improvisation
We’re so excited for this special Tango Immersion Weekend with guest teachers Irina Jabsa and Guadalupe Santiago, visiting us from Argentina.
Their work connects Tango Argentino with somatic practices and Contact Improvisation, an approach that helps you understand (and feel) how tango actually works in the body.
You’re warmly invited to explore how Tango Argentino’s structure and codes can interact with the fluid listening and physical dialogue of Contact Improvisation. The result is a rich movement language that invites dancers to refine both precision and sensitivity.
After this type of work, dancers typically experience:
💫 more stability and less tension
💫 clearer communication with different partners
💫 more comfort in close embrace and crowded dance floors
💫 moving beyond steps into creative expression
💫 more freedom using what you already know
Join us and open new possibilities and fluidity in your dance, by bringing attentive listening into your whole body.
Ready to transform how you experience Tango Argentino?
What makes this Tango Weekend unique
We’ll work with somatic awareness, weight and support dynamics, communication through the embrace, adaptability and shared movement to understand how Tango Argentino fluidity emerges from deep non-verbal listening, grounding and shared balance.
The program is designed for Tango Argentino dancers who want to expand their movement vocabulary while deepening the quality of connection, and Contact Improvisation dancers curious about doorways to a Tango Argentino approach that holds space for freedom and creativity within the embrace.
In cooperation with partner milongas in town, we’ve crafted a Thursday to Sunday program that can feel like a Festivalito without the exhaustion of running between activities, holding space for relax and resting, socializing, and discovering Vienna if you’re visiting us from abroad.
Irina Jabsa & Guadalupe Santiago
Irina and Guadalupe have been dancing and collaborating together since 2018, intertwining their artistic languages to develop new approaches to tango performance and pedagogy. Their work explores the intersection of Tango Argentino with Contact Improvisation, somatic education, and more recently aquatic movement.
As a duo, Irina and Guadalupe embrace a fluid approach to roles, adaptability, connection and collaboration, reflecting the evolving nature of tango today.
They organized the first TangoContact Buenos Aires Festival and have been special guests in all editions of the Electrotango Buenos Aires Festival and in the Contactango Encounters in Mar del Plata, and co-organize mUTANte Anfibia and mUTANte, two alternative milongas in Buenos Aires.
Their artistic collaborations include performances with Moon Riders, Tangorra, Tanghetto, Sami Abadi, and Mariano Godoy.
They’ve been sharing their work across Argentina and internationally, and now are on their second European Tour.
We’re fortunate to have them with us in Vienna on April 16-19 and look forward to seeing you there!
Tango Weekend Program
Thursday 16.4. at ONE Tango
Salzgries 4, 1010 Wien
20:00-23:00 · Let’s dance!
Guadalupe Santiago will DJ the Milonga Jueves at ONE Tango
Friday 17.4. at Galería Ideal
Geibelgasse 14, 1150 Wien
19:00-21:00 · Guided Práctica
Get to know our guest teachers and start improving your dance right away with their input.
You’re welcome solo or with a dance partner.
21:00-01:00 · Milonga with performance ❤️
The classic Friday Milonga that’s been running for 20 years in Galería Ideal welcomes Irina and Guadalupe to mesmerize us with their dance. An opportunity you won’t wanna miss!
WEEKEND PROGRAM at Zentrum Exist
Sechshauser Str. 36-38, 1150 Wien
Saturday 18.4.
16:40-18:10 · Workshop 1. Embrace Expansion
Stop holding the embrace. Start living it as a connection that supports your movement.
Join us to explore what allows grounding and reciprocity in movement to remain connected in the embrace in every situation.
18:30-20:00 · Workshop 2. Mutual Following
Increase your chances for the magic to happen on the dance floor.
Join us to understand the dance roles beyond leading and following and move from control to communication.
Discover how connection can flow both ways, responding instead of anticipating, adapting in real time, creating a more fluid and alive dance.
20:00-21:00 · Open Práctica
The body always needs time and repetition to integrate what you learn in classes and workshops.
This open práctica holds time and space for participants of the workshops to integrate their learnings in a self-directed dynamic.
Afterwards, we can go together to one of the Milongas that take place in town this evening and keep dancing it all 🎶
Sunday 19.4.
13:30-15:00 Tango & Movement Pedagogical Path
This time the monthly session of Jessica’s program is taking place earlier than usual.
You’re welcome to learn about it here and save your spot additionally to the Tango Weekend’s program if it calls you.
15:30-17:00 · Workshop 3. Support and Reciprocity
Have you seen how some dancers can make the most complex figures look impressively easy?
Join us to discover how balance doesn’t come from effort and how stability can exist without stiffness.
You’ll learn to use your weight efficiently, receive support and create elastic, adaptable movements to receive with clarity and surrender with confidence, awakening the different layers within your body to develop your sensitivity and fluidity in the dance.
17:15-18:45 · Workshop 4. Freedom in closeness
A close embrace that actually works, and not only with familiar dance partners, is possible.
How can bodies dance in close proximity seeking collaboration?
Join us to rethink the idea of physical closeness by studying complex movements performed in a close embrace.
Discover how to stay comfortable in proximity, move clearly in small spaces, and maintain connection without rigidity.
19:00-22:00 · Milonga Itinerante special edition with live music ❤️
Let’s celebrate the weekend with a closing milonga with Irina Jabsa as our TDJ and a special surprise!
Pablo Machado, multi-instrumentalist, composer, choir director and educator visiting us from Uruguay will delight us with a live danceable set for an evening to remember!
Location
Please note that Thursday and Friday evenings take place at partner Milongas (addresses in the program above).
Many of you know already our weekend location ❤️
📍 Zentrum Exist (Sechshauser Str. 36-38, 1150 Wien)
A welcoming space where every corner is beautifully designed awaits you, with wooden dance floor and warm vibes, good sound system, lounge area, and a shared table where joyful conversation extends this dance of connection beyond the dance floor.
There’s of course room to change clothes, and a shower available if you’d need it between workshops and Milonga (no towels or personal hygiene products provided).
There’ll be healthy snacks (and cake of course 😋) and drinks on a Spendebasis.
You’re very welcome to bring something to share on the common table as well.
Save your place
You’re welcome to register for the full program or the workshops of your choice.
It’s recommended to register with a dance partner but not required. Solo attendants are welcome, we switch dance partners as part of the learning experience. Many participants dance both roles and you’re very welcome to learn and dance the one(s) of your choice. We do ask you to register if you’re coming alone, so we can keep track of partners balance for each workshop in a better way than if you drop-in.
Prices
Full weekend = €140
1 workshop = €30
2 workshops = €58
3 workshops = €85
4 workshops = €105
Friday Guided Práctica and Milonga with performance at Galería Ideal = €20
The Saturday Open Práctica is included for free for participants registered to 2 or more workshops.
Sunday Milonga Itinerante with live music & TDJ Irina Jabsa = €15
Students under 27 years old and people with low income can request a Solidaritarif (-20%).
Private Lessons
Take your dance to the next level with one-on-one learning!
Irina and Guadalupe are available for private lessons from Thursday to Sunday (April 16-19).
You can book a lesson with one of them or both, and attend alone or with a dance partner.
Send me a message with your preferred date(s) and times and I’ll get back to you with prices and availability for you to confirm your spot.
How can I help you?
Jessica Gerdel
Tango Argentino – Yoga teacher and movement facilitator.
Guiding dancers toward embodied awareness, connection, and freedom on and off the dance floor.
contact@jessicagerdel.com
+43 681 10323630
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