The Facilitator
Dancing between two worlds
Diego Sanlor’s passion bridges the worlds of tango and alternative festival culture. His journey began in 2012, the year he moved to Berlin and discovered tango, beginning a connection that has shaped his path ever since.
His love of dance naturally led him to teaching, and since 2017 he has been offering tango workshops at electronic music festivals, conscious gatherings, and dance retreats.
Diego draws inspiration from contact improvisation and somatic practices. His approach is rooted in connection, consent, and expression, making tango accessible and meaningful in festival contexts.
The Workshop
Crafted for events & festivals
Embrace Connection Tango explores tango as a social dance, with a focus on listening, presence and connection. Its mission is to move beyond rigid roles, stereotypes and technical expectations.
The workshop offers a safe and open space where improvisation becomes a playful tool, giving each person the freedom to explore tango in their own way while creating something together.
The workshop is open to everyone, with no previous tango or dance experience required. Participants can come alone or with someone and choose how and with whom to take part.
The basic posture, weight shifts and simple forward, backward and side steps are explored, providing enough vocabulary to start moving and creating together.
Rather than aiming for perfect technique, the focus is on listening, presence and connection. Through simple exercises, participants explore how two people can communicate and move together without words.
Improvisation becomes a playful tool for experimenting with movement and making the dance personal. There is no fixed sequence to reproduce, as each dance develops through the dialogue between partners.
Tango can become a form of walking meditation. As attention shifts towards the music, movement and the partner, the mind can quieten and the dance can take on a more immersive, trance-like quality.
The workshop can be accompanied by electronic tango, Downtempo or Ambient music, depending on the setting. There is also the possibility of bringing
Tango Klub for an experimental electro-tango live DJ act, adding a more immersive and dynamic layer to the experience.
The workshop can finish with an open social dance session, or milonga, where participants are free to explore what they have discovered, change partners and simply enjoy dancing together.
Collaborations
The journey's footprints
From intimate gatherings to large-scale festivals, Embrace Connection Tango has found its place in many different contexts, always with the same intention: to connect and celebrate together.
Gallery
Visual stories of expression
Testimonials
Voices of connection
Diego was very patient and attentive as he broke down the steps for us to capture. Ended the class with great satisfaction and some cool moves I can be proud of 🙂 ... a great kind teacher with a beautiful spirit !
Thank you Diego!
No matter how much of pre-experience people had, everyone had a lot of fun and the group became one after the two hours.
Highly recommend 🍀
Open to all sorts of expectations and teaching levels, Diego would be my first choice as a tango teacher at any time.
By “chance,” I wandered to the place where the energy of love revealed its full power and beauty that evening. With tears in my eyes, I know I will never forget that moment.
Thank you for allowing me to be a part of it 🙏
We started with private classes in which he made me understand that the most important thing in tango is feeling.
Diego created a welcoming and supportive atmosphere, thanks to that approach I could learn tango with fun!
