Tango Trasnoche is Norway's most popular Argentine tango school. Our activities are classes, practice nights, milongas, performances, import and sale of tango shoes and CDs. We also organise balls, concerts, tangofestivals, and other special arrangements. Most of our activities are concentrated in and around Oslo, but it also includes engagements other places in Norway and abroad.

Our website offers the most updated and complete information on Argentine tango in Norway. Tango Trasnoche is based in Oslo, and owned and run by Jørn Knustad.



The teaching

Our main focus in dance and teaching can be summarised as this: contact, communication, improvisation, and musicality. We like to combine elements of the traditional tango in close embrace, with elements from the new tango in open style. In our teaching pedagogic, we believe that working with basic technique will lead the dancers to experience freedom in the dance, in order to really be able to express themselves, to improvise, and thereby use the music in their dance. As a consequence, the dance will then consist of communicating with, and moving together with the partner, more than performing fixed steps and figures. This focus is very present in our workshops and classes, resulting in a balanced attention to both the followers as well as the leaders role. When teaching figures, we are working on breaking the figures into steps and smaller sequences, thus inviting the students to a more free and improvised dance. In total, all this has merely one simple aim; to experience an exciting and comfortable dance in harmony with the partner and the music.



The instructors

Jørn Knustad, Oslo:
Jørn started instructing in 1999, and went full time professional in 2001. Jørn is in constant search of inspiration from many different sources. As a consequence, he has taken classes with practically all internationally acclaimed instructors, at last count, more than 50 different instructors or couples! He creates his personal style by melting elements from different tango maestros such as Eric Jörissen, Chicho & Lucia/Eugenia, Pablo Verón, Gustavo Naveira, Claudia & Esteban, and Fabian Salas. To further develop his dancing and teaching, Jørn is a frequent traveller around Europe, and he also goes for longer visits to Buenos Aires. He is often seen at different tangofestivals all over Europe. He has visited, or been involved in more than 50 tangofestivals.

Jørn is also a popular DJ. In addition to play on numerous occasions in Oslo, he has been the DJ at Bergen Tango Festival seveal years, at Tango Primavera/Otoño Festival in Stockholm several years, and for four years he was the unofficial DJ on the nightly beach promenade dance during the Sitges Tango Festival in Spain. He has also played in Germany and England.