Neotango Landscapes

Zeche Zollern, Dortmund

Fr 07. Aug.- So 9. Aug. 2026

Viele von Euch wissen meine Intuition und Gefühle für den Neotango Landscapes. Wir sind die Landschaft, in der wir uns befinden, wir sind ein Teil der Landschaft. Was aber das Beste ist, dies mit Bärbel zu entwickeln, zu machen und durchzuführen, zu der ich grenzenloses Vertrauen habe und mit Euch, der großen Neo Familie. Deshalb lasst uns gemeinsam neue Landschaften entdecken. Zeche Zollern.

Wir tanzen das ganze Wochenende.

Haupttanzfläche Indoor : Holztanzboden in der Maschinenhalle und

auf verschiedenen Tanzflächen (Milchkarton) Outdoor, Gelände Zeche Zollern.

Für Euch legen auf Elodie / Angers, Fabio de Giovanni / Nizza, Saskia Frankena / Arnheim. Die beiden VJ Zara Gayk /Wuppertal und Andreas Lange aus Hannover werden die Maschinenhalle in Magie verwandeln.
Es gibt keine Ausgrenzung bei uns, dennoch achtet darauf, dass Ihr Euch möglichst paarweise, als Follower und Leader anmeldet, Double Roler sollten Ihrer 50/50 Rolle gerecht werden.
Der Marathon Pass von 110 Euro pro Person berechtigt zum Eintritt an allen Tagen zu allen Neolongas, incl. Wasser und jeden Abend Früchte, natürlich wie immer bei mir in Bio Qualität. Die Anzahl der Plätze ist begrenzt.

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Elodie/ Angers

« Travelling and dancing are my biggest passion in life. For me, both are strongly linked to music. Moving through strange and beautiful landscapes or approaching trance on a dancefloor gives me the same kind of powerfull joy, connecting me back with the child I was. All my strongest memories are marked by music, just like in a movie.
I didn’t have the chance to learn how to play music; maybe that’s why I started dancing : because some music (like flamenco or tango) « were talking » to me so deeply that dancing was the only way for me, to answer to the emotion and energy that they were awaking in me. I had no choice.
Later, I started to travel because I needed to open the space around me. I grew up too close to the ocean to stay in my city (La Rochelle), no matter how much I loved it (« when you love, you have to leave… »).
Being invited to play for « neotango landscapes », in a place like Pina Bausch Zentrum, with it’s strong history and the strange beauty of it’s architecture, for me, it’s just like a dream… and a very inspiring defi for the djane I became»

Fabio de Giovanni / Nizza

It was in his hometown of Naples that Fabio discovered Tango in 2009. As a yoga teacher, he has been working for years on this union between body and mind through the power of music to create moments where time stops and you are transported into another dimension.

From 2010 he began a personal search for the discovery of modern rhythms and melodies (jazz, ethnic, classical, pop, rock, rap, indie, modern orchestras etc...) that can be interpreted using the codes of tango through all kind of music.

In 2013 he Came to settle in Nice, he imported his Neo tango musicality and gave a new breath to the life of Tango with his milongas where trad tango meets alternative tango and barriers are erased by emotions.

He participated as a DJ in many international festivals and marathons in Europe (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland) choosing to tell, through his musical selections, a story made of sensitivity and emotions, allowing dancers to freely interpret their feelings.

Saskia Frankena / Arnheim

Saskia is purely a Neotango DJ. In her sets she uses all kinds of music, if danceable. From the Middle Ages, classical to tango, from traditional Argentinian folk music to rock, jazz, blues...music from the West to the East, North to South. Original, covers or remixes.

She likes to use lyrical music, music that tells a story, with some drama, some gloominess and several layers in the music to play with.
Serving the dancers is what her sets are about, by facilitating music that can carry and ignite that tango connection.

Coming from Contact Improvisation she started dancing tango, wanting to learn Contact Tango, but got bitten by the traditional tango virus. It is a legacy she really honors. But her love for contemporary music and the playfulness of Neotango keeps pulling at her. Therefore her mantra is: “ Same soul, different sounds”
In 2018, together with Ezequiel Sanucci, she founded “La Neo” in Amsterdam.

During the lockdowns in 2020-2021, she played on an almost weekly basis for Neotango TV. From there on it went fast. Besides playing at multiple Marathons and neolongas in the Netherlands, Essen, Toulouse, Nantes and Lyon (Fr.) Meissen, Ludwigshafen, Berlin (De). Saskia now also runs and plays a monthly Neolonga “Flor de Neo” in Arnhem.

Eva Esmann Behrens / Aarhus

Eva works as a visual artist creating live visuals for music and theatre as well as projections for installation on buildings. She is based in Aarhus, Denmark, and her landscapes are often playful and poetic and inspired by nature, dance and organic movements.

Zara Gayk / Wuppertal

Zara Gayk lives and works as a video and digital artist in Wuppertal. She is involved in many aspects of the cultural scene, for example at TANZRAUSCHEN in the field of dance film and at INSEL, a cultural venue in the heart of Wuppertal city center.
As a video artist, she is responsible for INSEL NEOtango Milonga and INSEL Tango Club. With her large-format visuals, she creates an artistic experience that atmospherically accompanies the dancers and deepens the musical experience in dance.
For many years, she has been engaged in the implementation of musical and dance experiences in her digital painting and in moving space as video painting. In this way, constantly evolving ideas give rise to new image and film formats, which she can present to a large audience in the milongas.

Andreas Lange / Hannover

Andreas Lange is a photo, video and conceptual artist. He joined tango in 2005 and has been interested in dance and music ever since, both in the traditional field and in alternative concepts. In 2015 he expanded his artistic work into the areas of visual live performance. Since then, his live performances can be found at many neotango events in Europe. He picks up the mood of the music and the dancers and translates them live into visual elements. These are created by mixing and changing different graphic elements in real time, and in turn influence the dancers. He calls his live performance Visual Dancing. The content he uses comes partly from his exhibitions, was created by him especially for visual dancing, comes from artist friends or from publicly accessible sources.

2019 he established ultra-widescreen visuals up to image formats of 72:9 in the neotango scene – not every beamer now projects the same image content, but a wide image is projected over several beamers. In 2020 and 2021 he created the artistic concept of NeotangoTV and played virtual dance floors with his visuals in more than 300 hours. He also created virtual stages for streamed live concerts by Carlos Libedinsky and Steamed Tango Project.