Juan D. Lange

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Juan Dietrich Lange (* 1955 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan-German dancer and dance teacher .

Long is considered to be the initiator of the Tango Argentino movement from the 1980s in Germany. Immediately after his participation in the 1982 Horizonte Festival , which is considered the prelude to the “new German tango wave”, Lange began teaching tango dance in Berlin in 1982 , and numerous tango teachers in Germany have started with him. With the training of tango teachers, he has been providing multipliers for tango in almost all major German cities since 1985.

Life

Long grew up in Montevideo as the son of German parents . Because of the military coup in Uruguay in 1973 , he emigrated to Germany, where he studied ethnology in Berlin and devoted himself intensively to bodywork according to Gindler / Goralewski . While studying ethnology, Lange became interested in the original tango from the Río de la Plata , which he made the subject of his master's thesis. Lange lives in Berlin and teaches Tango Argentino and Salsa Cubana as well as other Latin American and African couple dances in his dance studio Estudio Sudamérica .

Juan D. Lange trained tango at first as an autodidact (1981–1985) and then essentially with the tango masters of the time, Antonio Todaro (1985–1994) and Pepito Avellaneda . For a long time, Antonio Todaro was the first tango guest lecturer in Germany and thus opened the continuous collaboration in tango dance with Buenos Aires . From 1988, Todaro took over the patronage of the jointly developed Tango teaching method from the Rio de la Plata® , which is now used in many tango schools in Germany.

From the beginning, Lange included elementary kinetics and bodywork in his classes (1981–1985 training in Gindler bodywork with Frieda Goralewski / Michel Benjamin. 1983–1990 gestalt therapy training. Advanced training in diagnostic bioenergetics , Feldenkrais work and group dynamics ).

In 1985, Lange expanded his range of courses to include Salsa Cubana and Merengue. He learned the Caribbean dances from Antonio and Gladys (director of the TV Ballet Cuba ), Juan José Ortiz (1993–1995), Fradique Lizardo (director of the Conjunto Nacional de Folklore ) and Oscar Batista (choreographer).

Since 2008 he has been teaching African and Afro-Caribbean couple dances from Angola , Cape Verde , Martinique , Guadeloupe and Haiti ( Kizomba , Semba , Coladera , Zouk and Kompa ).

Juan D. Lange repeatedly supports tango in Berlin and Germany with large-scale impulses. In 2006, for example, he headed the Tango-Berlin production team for the tango show " ilusión de tango - Tango made in Berlin ".

From March 2017 he headed the development of dance pedagogy and the training of dance teachers for the “Lillis Ballroom” dance school, which specializes in the visually impaired. With an ethnographic perspective and an integrative approach to dancing, based on the archetypal forms of couple dance, he developed a simple approach to couple dance for people with visual impairments.

history

In 1982, after working at the Horizonte Festival in 1982 , he began teaching tango dance in Berlin.

In 1983 he imported the first tango records (1500 LPs) from Montevideo for the record store Canzone , which specializes in world music , in order to satisfy the emerging interest in tango.

In 1984 he opened the first regular Berlin milonga , the Tango Bar in the Metropol. She was considered a model for many other events and was responsible for the creation of the first tango scene.

In 1986 he organized the first national tango meeting in Germany for the Tango Argentino show at the Deutsches Theater in Munich .

In 1992, for the 10th anniversary of Tango, he created the first forum for the Berlin tango makers in Künstlerhaus Bethanien as a time stage with performances by numerous tango pioneers and an extensive exhibition on the origins of the tango movement in Berlin.

In 2001 he initiated the establishment of the Berlin Tango platform , which presented Berlin's tango greats in a milonga show every six months. This unique project in the tango world brought together economically competing tango makers in an artistic co-production.

In 2006 Berlin Tango produced the big tango show ilusión de tango - Tango made in Berlin , in which Lange led the production team.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Die Zeit No. 13, March 26, 1993: “ Since Juan-Dietrich Lange, a German-Uruguayan, opened the first school eleven years ago in Berlin, the tango fever has been spreading inexorably. Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich, Göttingen, Kiel, Nuremberg ... "
  2. ^ Jörg Buntenbach & Jörg Hesse: Tango Metropole Berlin. Kastell 2001, ISBN 3-924592-67-5 - “Berliners have been learning to dance the tango in 4/8 time since 1982 [...] A short time after the first tango lessons in Berlin, Juan Dietrich Lange opened Germany's first tango school in the City."
  3. ↑ Zitty , 2003, Volume 26, Issues 19-21: "We owe Juan Dietrich Lange that tango conquered Berlin a second time after the Golden Twenties ..."
  4. ↑ Tagesspiegel, September 22, 1991, page 15: "Juan D. Lange is the director of the first tango school in Germany that teaches the tango from the Rio de la Plata."
  5. ↑ WDR5 15./16. September 2011: A brief history of Nicole Nau and the tango on the stamp - “But just one year later, in 1982, the concert tango took the old world by storm at the Berlin Horizonte Festival. The Berlin tango teacher Juan Dietrich Lange is one of the organizers of the festival. Born in Uruguay, he is one of the founding fathers of the German tango movement. "
  6. ↑ a b Tagesspiegel, October 29, 1989, page 11: “For several years now, dance and music from the Rio de la Plata have also been at home on the Spree. Since the Horizonte Festival 1982 with the focus on Latin America and an accompanying exhibition 'Tango - Melancholie der Vorstadt', a tango scene has emerged in Berlin that has meanwhile become the largest (and most important in terms of quality) in the German-speaking region. "
  7. ↑ a b Eberhard Janke: Tango - the touch. Focus, 1984, ISBN 3-88349-312-0
  8. ↑ a b c Stern 1983: The Tango Wave rolls across Germany , article by Paula Almqvist - “Dietrich Lange, ethnology student and taxi driver has recently earned extra income as an alternative dance teacher. His tango workshops on the weekend are particularly popular with the medium-sized crowd. "
  9. ↑ Horacio Ferrer et al. Wouter Brave: TANGO. Muziek, Dans en Lyriek. Amsterdam 1989, ISBN 9029084073 . - “Pioneer onder de dansers in Berlijn is Juan D. Lange, een Uruguayaan van Duitse ouders. Hij richt in 1983 zijn tangoschool op en bijna alle tangodansers en tangoleraren in Duitsland zijn bij hem started. ”(A pioneer among tango dancers in Berlin is Juan D. Lange, an Uruguayan of German descent. He founded his tango school in 1983 and almost all tango dancers and tango teachers in Germany started with him.)
  10. ^ Ralf Sartori: Tango in Munich. The past and present of the Munich tango scene. MünchenVerlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-937090-21-4 - “First and foremost Juan Dietrich Lange from Montevideo, who works from Berlin and who not only played a key role in the initial spark of the Munich Tango, but also played a key role in the first generations good dancer in West Berlin and West Germany in his 'Estudio Sudamerica', the first and oldest tango school in Germany and Europe. "
  11. ↑ Clarin March 26, 1987: "Un Uruguayo, Juan Dietrich Lange de apenas 30 años, anthropólogo hijo de alemanes, logro que Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Hamburgo y Frankfurt descubran el placer de bailar nuestra música."
  12. ↑ Boletín del Tango, Berlin 2007 Volume 42/43
  13. ↑ Tango schools, the directors of which were trained by Juan D. Lange
    (Locations in alphabetical order):
    La Boca , Bochum - Esther Szirniks
    Academia de Tango , Frankfurt - Fabiana Jarma
    Tango Milieu , Hanover - Joachim Knust
    Heidelberg - Christina Liakopoyloy
    Estudio Latinoamerica , Kiel - Axel Frauendorf
    Tango Maldito , Munich - Jürgen Krebes and Johanna Schneider
    Tanzerei , Nuremberg - Linde Winter
    Tangovision , Reutlingen - Martina Beilharz
    Tango School Rostock , Rostock - Birgit Opel and Ulrich Blumenthal
    Simbach / Inn - Nicole Frühwacht
    Tangoloft , Stuttgart - Sieglinde & Kenneth Fraser
    Tango Bohemio , Tübingen - Samuil Kiparidis
  14. ↑ Tango Danza No. 1, 2003
  15. ↑ Ballett international - Tanzaktuell - 1997, p. 54 ff.
  16. ^ Estudio Sudamérica
  17. ↑ Lilli's Ballroom
  18. ↑ Tip Berlin Issue 3/84: " The Berlin tango expert Juan Dietrich Lange regularly organizes a Schwoof in the Rio de la Plata style in the Metropol."
  19. ↑ Peter Birle: Relations between Germany and Argentina , 2010 - " An exhibition - 'Melancholy der Vorstadt: Tango' - in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien - and various concerts, etc. a. with Astor Piazzolla, inspired the visitors. Juan Dietrich Lange opened the tango bar and a dance school shortly afterwards. "
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Juan D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Juan Dietrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan-German dancer and dance teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay