Who we are (team)

Tango Vadio is mainly Glória Badcock (organisation, concept, contacts and getting nervous), the teachers Emma Leminem and Andrea, and Rui (helping organizing, promote, or simply dancing at workshops) as permanent members. Other non-permanent members have been helping, or are available to, inclusively other teachers who can cooperate every once in a while or when seen convenient. Tango Vadio is not a closed team. Tango Vadio, like any stray dog, also gets a lot of undeserved support and suggestions from respective families and friends, not to mention a small but steady fan club).

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Glória Badcock Badcock can't dance to save her life, but she is trying hard to learn it, getting whatever remains of her ego and vanity pulverized in the process. She likes to organize stuff, has been busy channeling her bad temper in the LGBT rights, gender and poly activist scene. Prejudices, traditional roles, and sentences like "tango is to be danced exclusively by a man and a woman (with the man leading, of course)" make her fret in a quite dangerous way. But behind all that steam beats an almost-human heart, and she has a weakness for watching people dancing, sharing romantic and sexy moments and just being happy. So one day she just founded the Tango Vadio project as cultural project with gender-activist aspect, in a day where her attention span was better than usual...

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Emma is simply danceaolic (even if not belonging yet to the dançaolicos group) and she is incapable of surviving without three tango fixes every week. No matter what! She studied practical and theoretical Dance, including Dance Anthropology, Pedagogy, Physiology, History and so on, but also Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Creative Dance, tap-dance, Folk Dance, and Drama. She has an extensive and proven experience in teaching, and has been teaching Tango in Finland, where Finnish Tango is has become a strong national musical expression. Besides all of these passions, Emma believes there is gold around you, if you choose to see it. She will help you with that choice and that process. You may find her "diving" into interesting performative projects helping giving them sense. She will help you go and find it.

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Andrea, teaches Tango Argentino, in Berlin, where she lives, for more than 12 years now. This teaching includes individual, group and workshop lessons (e.g. Queer Tango Festival). Besides doing tango-related artistic performances on stage with the duo TangoSchlampen (see, e.g., this video), she has also a keen interest in Standard and Latin ballroom dances., and was already European champion for Standard in her category a couple of times (rankings and results here: http://www.essda.eu/results/results.htm.


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Rui likes to dance, is very much interested in the political (gender neutral) and activist aspect of the project, is very fond of the rest of the team, and helps in everything in a project he finds interesting and socially useful. So he does a bit of everything, from organization, then to promotion, to ruthless criticism. Dancing he does too!

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