Helene Eriksen is tango dancer but also a professional dancer, dance ethnologist, performer and choreographer with an international teaching and performance career that spans 40+ years. She has dancing tango since 2008 and has been intensely immersed in the milongas of Buenos Aires since 2012 when she also discovered her love of Argentine folk dances. She has a deep knowledge of the Buenos Aires tango scene and is a proponent of close embrace social tango with its intense musicality and a deep connection between the partners. She is multilingual (English, Spanish, German, French, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Turkish and some Russian).
But most importantly she is passionate about dance, about learning and about cross cultural understanding. Her goal is to help you have the best time imaginable discovering your dancing body, exploring a new world, and finding a new facet of yourself!
Reviews:
“I can highly recommend Helene Eriksen for private classes in Buenos Aires; close embrace Argentine tango. She assessed where I am in my tango journey and worked with me over a series of 1 h units systematically on improving my embrace, posture, walk, circular movement, musicality and stretchiness. She showed me with her body and provided lots of immediate feedback when dancing with her. Helene is tall (can also teach how to dance with a taller/shorter person), follows & leads and speaks English, German, Spanish and French.”
— Peter, Seattle, WA, USA
“Helene Eriksen is amazing. Few teachers have so deep understanding of the human body and so keen ability to pass this understanding to a student. In her teaching the focus is on quality — that of your posture, your connection, your step, your movement, your energy flow. Highly recommended!
— Raissa, Ithaca, NY, USA
“My journey from watching tango to dancing tango has a name: Helene. Her ability to see what I needed at this moment in my tango life, basically transformed hours into months of tango experience. From musicality, to posture, to understanding what my partner needs, all this enhanced my dance in front of my eyes. Not tomorrow, not in months, NOW. Not mentioning that she has been living here for years and she knows all the milongas where I need to be. I speak some Spanish but not all the time I understand the locals. Hence, her English was so helpful. Great dancer, amazing teacher.
— Alex, Bucharest, Romania
“Beim Tangotanzen liebe ich die enge Umarmung, wie viele meiner Mittänzer*innen hier in Deutschland.
Dennoch: eng und eng sind hier zwei Paar Schuhe. Was oft dabei herauskommt, ist, dass man in „locker-engem“ Kontakt tanzt. Meist ist sogar der Wangenkontakt das Intensivste an Berührung dabei; im Brustbereich, wo es wirklich intensiv sein könnte, bleibt der Kontakt recht vage. Und beim Gehen fehlt Erdung und Energie.
Seitdem ich Helene Eriksens Unterricht kenne, weiß ich, dass es auch anders geht (im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes „energetisch geht“): Eine enge Umarmung, die wirklich aus einer guten Erdung heraus Intensität und Energie in den Kontakt im Brustbreich bringt und eine wunderbare Aufrichtung und differenzierte Bewegung im Paar ermöglicht.
Danke, Helene, dass Du mir Mut machst, all dies zu versuchen. Ich hoffe, dass es noch viele Tangueras und Tangueros tun; denn dieses intensive Gefühl von Verbindung beim Tangotanzen ist wunderschön.
— Eckhart, Hannover, Germany
“Créeme que te admiro. Es un placer verte bailar. Es un honor para nosotros ver gente de otro país, de otra cultura, sintiendo así el tango.”
— Horacio Prestamo (old milonguero+), Buenos Aires, Argentina
