Re-Connect Through the Dancing Body
Combining Argentine Tango, Somatic Movement Education and Contact Improvisation, TangoSomatics cultivates a sensory experience of connection in times when bodies feel far apart—opening spaces of trust, intimacy and creative co-liberation.
Practice Pathways
TangoSomatics practices open up pathways to explore how the combination of tango, somatic movement education and contact improvisation can deepen proprioception, relational awareness, embodied connection and emotional intelligence. Through the practice of Contango (also known as Contact Tango), Nonviolent Communication in the Dialogue of Bodies, Family Dance, Tango for Communities, Tango for Schools and Tango in Nature participants cultivate presence, trust, sensory perception and creative co-movement. These practices support wellbeing, connection and transformation for dancers, movers, families and communities.
Tango Empathy Lab
A practice for dialogue, conflict transformation, and relational intelligence through tango: listening before leading, responding instead of reacting. Participants learn how movement can soften frustration, place conflict into the background, and cultivate empathy, clarity, and respectful relational exchange in the dialogue of bodies.
Family Dance
Where tango’s intimacy meets contact’s freedom: a fluid, improvisational practice exploring touch, weight, and shared axis. Dancers discover co-liberation in motion—moving between structure and openness with presence, trust, and playful connection. (Also known as Contact Tango)An intergenerational movement practice where children and caregivers build trust, communication, and shared play through touch and dance. A gentle and energetic space to explore connection, bonding, and embodied presence as a family.
About
Tango Somatics
TangoSomatics is a practice that brings together Argentine tango, contact improvisation and somatic movement education to help people feel more connected, expressive and alive in their bodies. It is the outcome of Raffaele Rufo’s cross-disciplinary research and his long-standing artistic and pedagogical collaborations across Europe, Australia and Africa. It blends the structure and musicality of tango with the freedom and playfulness of contact, and the sensitivity and slow attention typical of the Feldenkrais method.
TangoSomatics Video Library
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Reviews
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"It's incredible to share these moments together in your presence! Love."
— Charel, Geneve
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"A nice way to bring me/us into the feeling of tango."
—Elke, Innsbruck
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“Beautiful, loving, deconstructive, counter-hegemonic, and full of feeling and love, thank you!”
—Marco, Barcelona
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"Rediscovering one's body, encountering the other person through a deep and vibrational feeling, all (very gently and very gradually) accompanied by the visceral music of tango... beautiful! Raffaele has extraordinary sensitivity and tact, he is a great professional."
— Roberta, Roma
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"I am very pleased to share my joy about the successful workshops with you. For me, it was a successful introduction to the world of Contango. Even the first exercise ‘simply walking criss-cross in the group’ had a decisive effect. Feeling the energy of the participants as they walked past, releasing inner blockages and making contact was a wonderful feeling."
—Henryk, Freiburg
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"Often I dislike watching Contango, it doesn't make sense. Your work seems to me an appropriate approach from inside of both dances. Somehow it opens another space...another taste of both. I like to feel the dance from inside and not the outer exterior form. And you gave the way into it. Thank you a lot. Nice teaching, it moved quite a lot people coming from Tango who participated."
— Birgit, Freiburg
