Muse of Modernity? Remembering, Mediating and Modernising Popular Dance Saturday April 16, 2016 Torrington Room, Senate House, University of London, London, UK This symposium seeks to address the mediated memories of popular dance practices. From the colonial circulation of dance prints to YouTube, popular dances have been ‘captured’ in mediated…
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Video (2:38): Alejandro Villalobos and Arturo Olivia’s Queer Tango performance at the Festival de Tango Queer Mexico 2013.
Video (2:46): Queer Tango is taking over NYC; a documentary by Chasing News. Lexa Roséan teaches a beginner’s tango class at El Cid restaurant. Jack Hanley, who is a co-founder of Rainbow Tango, says, “We wanted a place for the LGBT community who enjoy open role dancing to enjoy a…
Video (1:38): The trailer of La Vie en Rose, International Queer Tango Meeting in Paris June 23 – 26, 2016. The dancers in this trailer are Céline Tiberghien and Mademoizelle Coco. The trailer is directed by San Fede.
Video (2:47): ‘Russian Drama’ – the trailer of Queer Tango Dance Club’s 2nd Queer Tango Festival in St Petersburg, Russia. Save the dates June 1-5, 2016.
Video (1:02): The trailer of the 4th Queer Tango Festival SALIDA in St Petersburg, Russia, 2016. Save the dates April 29 – May 1, 2016.
August 7 – 13, 2016 Malin Backström, Lotta Bohlin, Kristin Bjarnadottir, Henny Stridsberg and Sabine Rohde are inviting women from around the world to join them at the women’s tango retreat, the ‘Internationell Tangovecka’ (the International tango week) at Kvinnohojden in Sweden. The women teachers all dance both roles in…
Join Ray Batchelor, Hélène Marquié and Jon Mulholland in Paris for The Queer Tango Salon: Connecting Bodies of Knowledge – an International Inter-disciplinary Symposium of Scholarship and Practice on September 16-17, 2016. Access is free! For two days, The Queer Tango Salon will bring together for the first time in…
We love the article: CSD Seminar: Summary of “Dancing Around Urban Cultural Commodification: The Buenos Aires Queer Tango Scene” by Laura Antona It is a summary of Dr Miguel Kanai’s recent excellent lecture at the London School of Economincs (LSE). It is really good to know that Queer Tango is…
Video (6:34) : Double One (2001, UK), a short film with Jungian symbolism and Tango Argentino dance vocabulary by Adriana Pegorer.
Video (1:32): A short clip with Queer Tango dancers dancing on a square in St Petersburg, Russia.
Video (23:25): Comme il faut (Properly), with English subtitles, is a documentary about Roberto López, Carmen Hergos and the students at la Garúa Queer Tango Club Barcelona.