Dear international guest,

a warm welcome to you to my homepage.

My name is Thorsten Zörner and I was born in May 1970 in Bremen, Germany. I dance and teach and breathe and live argentine tango. All that started back in 1997 at the notorious El Corte, while I lived and worked in Nijmegen in Holland. It certainly gave me a good start into tango, which started off as a hobby and which has been transforming into my passion, profession and philosophy. Over the last couple of years, I have spend considerable time in Buenos Aires to find new inspiration and explore various styles of the dance.

Teaching tango I enjoy as much as I enjoy dancing tango. I approach tango and teaching by making things radically simple for the students. I teach improvisation from the very first step. I take force and tension out of tango and replace them by subtle yet crystal clear impulses. Movements of the dancing couple seem to happen effortlessly, but they have been clearly led and followed.
This way you can learn tango with a smile.

Also I love to DJ. I prefer to play traditional tango and fancy cortinas. Apparently I am one of the last DJs who work with CDs only, really handcrafting every session. Dancers feel and appreciate the difference, when every single song is selected and started by hand. I have repeatedly DJed in Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Lviv, New York City, Nijmegen, Paris/Montrouge, Saarbrücken and Sudak (Ukraine), and also in Boston/Cambridge, Edinburgh, Frankfurt am Main, Gummersbach, Leipzig, Lisbon, Lyon, Münster, Nîmes/Aigues Vives, Oslo, Sätra Brunn (Sweden), Warsaw, Washington DC and Yale/New Haven. Invite me to work at your milonga!

In my courses I currently teach tango to about 100 students each week.
There are some more students in my workshops on weekends at least once a month here in Düsseldorf and also in other cities.
I am totally convinced that prácticas are the way to get comfortable in tango fast and thus give three prácticas every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and on every second and forth Friday of the month.

If you would like to know more about me and my work,
please do call me +49 211 3003 5901
or send me an e-mail Thorsten@TangoDuesseldorf.de.

Cheers,
Thorsten.