ContacTango Weekend in Zurich: “Freeing the Embrace” | 5-6.9.2026

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Written By Raffaele Rufo

Zurich (Switzerland), 5-6 September 2026.

ContacTango Workshops with Open Dance Evening

Theme: “Freeing the Embrace”

Two days of exploration between tango and contact improvisation , where breath, touch, and movement unfold as a somatic dialogue of trust, rhythm, and transformation. Immerse yourself in the complete intensive, where the process unfolds across the two days and is nourished by the JamMilonga — a shared space of experimentation where the worlds of tango and contact meet, and form becomes flow.

💫 Open to all levels — contact dancers, tango lovers, movers and beginners who wish to explore dance as transformation. You can join alone or with a partner .

📌 No prior experience required.

📍 Venue: Dynamo Jugendkulturhaus, Wasserwerkstrasse 21, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland

📞 Info & Bookings: Carole Marfurt - Mobile: 079 749 33 85 - carole.marfurt@icloud.com

🌐 Read the event details: www.tangosomatics.com

TEACHER'S BIO

Raffaele Rufo is a dance educator, choreographer, and researcher based in Rome with over twenty years of international experience. Over the course of two decades of training, performance, teaching, and community work, he has developed TangoSomatics , an integrative method that combines tango, contact improvisation, and somatic movements to cultivate relational awareness, presence, and creative transformation. His workshops are open to dancers of all backgrounds and invite each participant to rediscover movement as a space for connection, curiosity, and play. He holds a PhD from Deakin University (Australia) with research focused on touch in tango as somatic listening, and he regularly teaches at major festivals of tango, contact tango, and contact improvisation across Europe.

Raffaele Rufo

Raffaele Rufo (PhD) is a dance artist, a facilitator of artistic and cultural processes, and an independent scholar committed to community and land regeneration. His artistic background is entwined with the Australian ensemble ‘Liminal Theatre and Performance’ and with the Argentine Tango dance, which he later combined with Contact Improvisation, Body Weather and somatic movement. After focusing his performance practice on Melbourne’s public urban spaces, Raffaele has explored the questions of roots and exile in Milan and Rome through the ecosomatic relation with the nonhuman and matter. His ongoing and recent creative projects include ‘Rituali di Pa(e)ssaggio’, ‘Danced by the Tree’, ‘Return of the Centaurs’, ‘Ecokinetics’ and ‘Ecosomatic Persephone’. He is co-founder of the International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts (IFEEA) and collaborates with Teatro del Lido di Ostia as artistic director of ‘La Selva’ Residency. Raffaele holds a Phd in dance and performance from Deakin University and his research has been published in academic journals and book collections.

www.raffaelerufo.com
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