Description
✨ Join a different kind of tango training ✨
📍 Zentrum Exist — Sechshauser Str. 38-36, 1150 Wien
Ring the bell Seminarraum
You can join with or without a dance partner and learn both roles.
✨ Full program and registration at www.jessicagerdel.com ✨
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.
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Why an ongoing intensive Tango Argentino training?
Over the years, Jessica has taught typical classes, 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.
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MAY 2026 EDITION! May 16-17
This month we put the focus in the infinite world of spirals 🌀
Ever wondered why sometimes movement feels (or looks) stiff, forced or limited, and how to change it?
Everything, from a comfortable embrace to Ochos, Giros, Sacadas, Barridas, Ganchos and any other technique and popular figure you can think of in Tango, from simple to complex, functions smoother if your spirals are working 🔥
They are one of the hidden structures that make movement feel fluid, connected and alive 🌟
Join us for a weekend of deep exploration of how spirals work in the body for smoother, organic, flexible and healthy movements in different dance situations.
This time Jessica included a bonus lesson before the workshops start, helping you prepare your body for the weekend’s theme and gain tools that you can bring home for a healthy and mobile spine, even (and especially) if you think you have zero flexibility.
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 MAY 16 ☀
15:00-16:00 — Free your spine
This bonus lesson (not included in the basic registration) helps you prepare your body for the weekend’s theme and gain tools that you can bring home for a healthy and mobile spine, even (and especially) if you think you have zero flexibility. Bring comfortable clothes!
16:30-17:30 — Workshop 1: The spiraled body
Many dancers know dissociation as a concept. Let’s transfer it to the body. This workshop focuses on individual technique and awareness for fluid tango movement.
18:00-19:00 — Workshop 2: Pivots that flow
Make your turning and transitions smooth and effortless
19:15-20:15 — Workshop 3: Circular dialogue
Go beyond patterns and discover how spirals organize the Giros / Molinetes
20:15-22:00 — Focused Práctica for all levels
Open to participants from all backgrounds. It's not required to have attended the workshops or Jessica's classes to join.
☀ SUNDAY MAY 17 ☀
14:30-16:00 — Tango & Movement Pedagogical Path
This is an add-on program, not included in the basic registration. Join to learn about biomechanics, body awareness, and how people learn movement and dance. More details on Jessica's website.
16:20-17:20 — Workshop 4: Spirals within
Find comfort and adaptability in close embrace
17:35-18:35 — Workshop 5: Spirals in dynamic
Discover fluid and effortless ways to include popular figures in your dance while staying connected to your dance partner
18:40-22:00 — Milonga Itinerante
Our welcoming dance floor awaits you to dance it all!
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✨ 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 deepens 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.
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.
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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 from Argentina!)
May 16-17
June 20-21
July 18-19
Aug: Summer break
Sep 19-20
Oct 17-18 or 24-25 (it'll be confirmed in advance)
Nov 21-22
Semester and yearly packages include the Focused Prácticas at no extra cost. Book yours on Jessica's website or in person.