Uncovering the Histories and Pre-Histories of Queer Tango: contextualizing and documenting an innovative form of social dancing by Ray Batchelor, 2014 Abstract: Attempting to uncover and document the history, or rather histories and pre-histories of Queer Tango is difficult. Superficially, the history ought to be easy. The term ‘Queer Tango’…
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Video (1:18): The tango scene from the Dutch film ‘Soldaat van Oranje’ (1977). The film directed by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé. The film is set around the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The story is based on…
Video (6:19): Astrid Weiske and Kat Gorsuch perform at the LGBTI Pavillion, International Tourism Fair Berlin 2016 for the Argentine Embassy.
Today, The Queer Tango Project launches The Queer Tango Image Archive. The Queer Tango Image Archive is a digital collection of historical, pre-1995, images relating to the themes and issues touched on by Queer Tango. Birthe Havmøller, founder of The Queer Tango Project, designed and built the website, and for…
Video (0:54): A trailer about the Queer Tango Practica at Cosy in Montreal, Canada.
Video (7:03): Maurizio Ghella and Martin Maldonado’s Queer Tango performance in Aarhus, Denmark, March 26, 2016.
Video (6:28): shortfilm documenting the Flashmob: A tango against Homophobia IV, organised in solidarity with homosexual people who officially are criminalized in 90 countries around the world. The event took place in Buenos Aires, 2015. Description: “LiBERTAD para AMAR, LiBERTAD para BAiLAR – FRREDOM to LOVE, FREEDOM to DANCE: Flashmob…
Video (3:01): Queer Tango Montreal – Thierry and Tobias at Tangueria, Montreal, February 2012.
Video (2:19): Yana Khalilova and Natasha from St Petersburg dance a tango. Music: La cumparsita by Hugo Diaz.
Video (3:02): Mariela Sametband and Guillermo Barrionuevo dance a traditional tango at the mainstream Milonga Sólo una vez in Berlin, Germany on opening night of the 1st Embrace Tango Festival 2014. This is not a Queer Tango video. The couple dance a very traditional tango, but watch the magic moment:…
Video (2:22): Harald and Stefan show how well aikido and tango moves mix. The video was made in Berlin in 2007.
3rd Contact Tango intensive week with Adriana Pegorer: Interplay & Creativity 29 August – 4 September 2016 near Toulouse, France This week is about the fusion of tango argentino with contact improvisation and is led by Adriana Pegorer, a professional dancer who has been teaching and dancing tango in the…