Teachers and artists 2014



Isabella Cremer & Iwan Harlan


Iwan and Isabella are tango artists, who love to improvise and find the new aspects in tango. Their motto is: 
„The moment is the choreography“. Their dance can be characterized by 3 words: i-nspiration, i-mprovisation, i-ntimity.


Their technique gives the dance couple an enormous freedom, everything is flowing naturally and the dividing lines:- WHO IS LEADING WHO OR WHO IS SEDUCING WHO are fading." In their classes Isabella & Iwan work intensively and personally with every couple,  so that the pure essence is transported directly. "The body talks a different language, words are often helpless, so when I  teach, I use the same language-my body. This is a completely different form of communication."

The dance style of Iwan and Isabella is characterized by effortless dynamic, respect toward the other, flowing energy and a strong connection to the music. They like to impart the inner and outer posture and how this is connected to yourself, to your partner and to the dance. They use in their workshops different methods that helps you to improvise and adds to your dance more freedom.  
"To unveil the music and our wordless dialog" is their motto in every dance. "the music is the source of our inspiration, if it is boring us we dance boring...and the reverse is also true ;-)" Maybe this is the reason why their show dances are so sparkling." 

They do not only organize tango classes, workshops, tangoholidays and their special e-longa, but also create music and fashion. 

Read more about them: www.elonga.net

Videos of Iwan and Isabella



Alex Barberi



Alex is born in Italy, but currently lives and teaches tango in England, London, where Alex has the tango school called Tango Black Cat.

Alex teaches dancers to look for a natural movement of the body. Everything is light and simple, if danced naturally, also the most complicated steps. He started teaching in 2007.

Alex dancing can be characterized by simplicity and fluency of the movement.
Alex will be in Riga for the first time and he welcomes to his workshops beginners as well as advanced dancers to learn how to move naturally and enjoy the dance.

Alex has been dancing for eleven years and has had a huge Sunday night  milonga in central London called "the 33 " at 33 Portland, that was hosting people from everywhere. 
Alex has learned Tango Salon from such teachers as Carlitos y Rosa, Neri y Yanina and Adrian y Amanda Costa. At the beginning of his tango studies, he also took lessons from Chicho Frumboli. 
Alex was part of the tango show: La Celebration. You can see an extract of it here.


Video: The extract from La Celebration by Pop-up-tango.com

Video: Tango on a street of London by Alex Barberi 

Alex will teach and give a show in RigaTangoWinterFest with Diana German.


Diana German


Diana German lives in Riga, Latvia. She dances tango for seven years and is a teacher at tango school: Tangostudio in Riga. As Diana says: "Soon after I had started attending tango classes, movements and music has grown into something bigger – every day became filled in with tango. I started to travel for tango." 
Diana has been mastering tango with many Latvian teachers and maestros from abroad. Her favourite dancers are Noelia Hurtado, Alejandra Mantinan and Juana Sepulveda. Diana is sure that the important aspect for the woman in tango is to find the feeling of the body and to try to feel and understand the partner, to become "one body" for the tanda, or even two tandas.  

Diana will assist Alex Barberi in workshops and Tango Labs as well as will give a show with Alex on Sunday, Jan 12 evening milonga.