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Tango Festival
Rhein-Ruhr 2025
DJs and VJ
Claudio Coppola
DJ Traditional from Paris - France
Claudio Coppola is from Naples. After studying psychology, he started tango in 2003 and learned from the best of the best and hasn't stopped practicing it since.
He has lived in France since 2011 and teaches regularly in Paris and across Europe. His pedagogy is based exclusively on respect and attention to the partner, on connection, on a spontaneous and tension-free movement, on improvisation and above all on fun!
Claudio is also a DJ, known for his musical sensitivity and qualities as a musician. For more than four years he has been dealing with musicalization after discovering the richness and diversity of the greatest tango orchestras. He finds immense satisfaction and above all great emotion when he makes people dance. For him, a successful milonga is one where the dancers end up tired, but with such a comfortable tiredness! For this he draws on the resources of classical orchestras, which are full of energy but above all very melodic.
Theresa Faus
Traditional DJ from Munich, Germany
I started to DJ because I often felt unhappy with the music in my hometown Munich. Inspired by the
milongas in Buenos Aires, I founded my own milonga in 2005 and played there, it was the first milonga
in Munich with 100% traditional music and with tandas and cortinas.
When I play music I draw from the richness of the traditional tango music. My stilistic priorities are on
the subtle, cheeky, sophisticated side, as opposed to bombastic or big drama stuff; mainly from 1930
to 1945, and also from the 20ies, and in smaller doses dramatic or super sweet music from later years.
I create contrasts from tanda to tanda, in order to keep the dancers' inspiration alive during hours,
always observing the mood and the energy on the floor. Of the big orchestras I love especially Aníbal
Troilo, there will be no milonga without his music.
I still DJ every month in my own milonga, and during the years I played in many places in Europe.
Alyson
Neo DJ from Portland, Oregon
There’s a special kind of tango addict who wants to go beyond the familiar into new territory. To explore a space where there are no limits to their creativity, to the possibilities. Have you tasted this kind of tango? Find that tangasmic moment of ecstasy in your body, in your relationship with gravity, the earth, in your boundlessly creative connection with your partner and the music. This is your moment.
DJ Alison searches across cultures and genres to find the music to make your magic moments happen. Let’s connect, let’s play, let’s embrace some magic.
Alison is a tango nomad currently based in Portland, Oregon, making friends and deejaying in the US, Europe and Buenos Aires and organizing neotango events in Los Angeles and beyond…
Abrazos, love & tandas!
Ezequiel Sanucci
DJ from Amsterdam , Netherlands
In 2013 I started working as a traditional tango DJ and shortly after I added the neotango to my repertoire.
Since then I played at most of the prestigious international neo and tango festivals and events in Europe and Argentina as ElectroTango Festival Buenos Aires, TNT Toulouse, Tango Marathon Nantes, Phantastango, Nuevo Tango Prague, Greece Neotango Marathon, TangoRave, Tango Vibes Berlin, Tango des Lumieres Lyon, Contango Festival Freiburg and many more. I am a founding member and DJ of La Neo, which is the first 100% neolonga in the Netherlands, as well as co-organizer, teacher and DJ of the Arnhem Neotango Marathon and The Neotango Weekend.
I love variety, surprising and to create different kind of atmospheres during my sets. I am always very sensitive for what is happening on the dance floor and I am happy when people are having a good time.
Nueva Guardia
Neo DJ Nueva Guardia from Toulouse, France
I like eclectic music, I like nice melodies, I like to feel dancer’s energy, to have a good vibes exchange. It will be a pleasure to come back, I was at the first edition, the level of the dancers seduced me, the organisation was well done, the groups were well chosen, I liked the music, and so I hope to see you there
Katharina
DJ from Düsseldorf/Neuss, Germany
As a DJane, on traditional Milonga evenings, I mostly play music the audience is already familiar with. But I also like to experiment and to surprise everyone with new versions of well-known classics and different arrangements of old recordings. I want to inspire the dancers to improvise, to go with the flow and ultimately, to feel the tango spirit.
There‘s nothing worse than boredom on the dance floor, and for a DJ, there is nothing better than a big crowd dancing till the La Cumparsita.
Therefore, I am always susceptible to the vibes from the dance floor. I change the rhythms and Tandastyles gradually, always according to the atmosphere in the room and the energy of the dancers
My Milonga evenings represent my personal tastes, but at the same time I am always open to requests from the dance floor and do my best to satisfy the expectations of the audience. Keeping the natural flow of tango dancing in mind, I will easily adjust the mood and the atmosphere, while creating and maintaining an authentic tango experience.
A well- chosen, thoughtful selection of music is like a box of chocolates - each one tastes different, but they are all incredibly delicious.
I offer you boxes filled with exquisite chocolates to satisfy each
taste -- so much pleasure and no fear of gaining weight!
Walter Reetz
Neo DJ from Bochum (La Boca), Germany
His 20 years of tango and tango DJ experience is reflected in his choice of music. Well versed in the science of traditional tango, DJ Walter knows the tango basics, but likes to focus on more modern orchestras when compiling his salon music, without ignoring the well-known greats.
In 1997, he was appointed tango DJ at the legendary Café Ada in Wuppertal, where he quickly became known as a modern tango DJ who, in addition to the classic tango of the great masters from the ‘Época de Oro’, also brought tango nuevo and electrotango into the dance evenings.
Whether melancholic non-tango, harmonious, somewhat poppier neo-tango, tango electronico or even an experimental piece in between - Walter serves all eras.
DJ Tango21
DJ from Düsseldorf
I have been involved with tango since the last millennium. Traditional tango was the first dance and music to capture me and often gave me the famous "three-minute happiness". My ultimate goal as a DJ is to enable as many couples as possible to experience this elation when dancing together. I like to play traditional tangos. Especially in the Epoca d'Oro, the music is so captivating, varied and differentiated for dancers as it is not the case before and after. Tango tradicional has infected and fascinated me to this day. I can also revel in it as a DJ.
However, as the name "DJ Tango21" aka Geert says, I am also very interested in the tango of today, the tango of the 21st century. The Epoca d`Oro is the phenomenal peak of tango as dance music, but it is not the present. I am interested in including the tango of today for dancers, to make it clear that tango is not a museum of itself, but has a development that builds on traditional tango. Tango is not a historical art form, it is current, as a culture, as music, as poetry and as dance. When I'm in Buenos Aires, I look for it in the off-milongas or at the events organised by the musicians themselves, such as the Electrotango Festival or at the Centro Atletico Fernandez Fierro (CAFF), and I always come across good dance music with clear rhythms and new influences that interpret tango in a contemporary way and give it a historical resilience and vitality.
As a DJ, I therefore play a wide variety of music - both classical, preferably in the romantic Zollhaus in Willich near Düsseldorf, but also at neo-tango events such as the Nuevo Tango Rave in Bremen. I am interested in the whole spectrum of lyrical and romantic tangos, from the musically dramatic to rock and jazz-inspired pieces. The important thing for me is always the danceable "rhythm", where everyone has to join in.
Andreas Lange
Neo VJ from Hanover, Germany
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.
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