We continue our Spanish series of essays from The Queer Tango Book and are happy to present a translation of writer and co-editor Ray Batchelor’s essay ‘Coming Out to Dance: or getting it straight – a re-examination of the relationship of Queer Tango to the tango mainstream’ from chapter three:…
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This is the Spanish version of Birthe Havmoeller’s essay ‘How to Queer a Queer Tango: queer strategies for dual role dancers’ from The Queer Tango Book, chapter 3: Rethinking the Dance. Translation by Olaya Aramo. Birthe Havmoeller is the creator of the Queer Tango Book Project, co-editing The Queer Tango…
You are warmly invited to Totally in Tango # 1, July 1-3, 2016, Chaussee de Lille, 210 Moeskroen, Belgium, organised by Ludo Decreus.
Augusto Balizano and Mariana Docampo invites you to celebrate the 10. anniversary of the Festival Internacional de Tango Queer in Buenos Aires. The festival dates are November 4 – 20, 2016.
Quilombo Queer Tango Festival Barcelona, Spain May 25–29, 2016 Call for submissions! Theoretical reflections and artistic actions on Queer Tango are at the core of the Quilombo Queer Tango Festival. That is why we invite you to send any kind of imagery, writings, videos, performance proposals, sound pieces etc. to…
Video (2:23): 1. KuirFest – Faysal Tekoğlu’yla KuirTango Atölyesi (2012).
Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary Melissa A. Fitch Bucknell University Press 2015 Reviewed by Ray Batchelor “Islam, homosexuality and tango are not incompatible,” Iz told the reporter doing a story on Gay Pride Day in Istanbul in 2011. Iz, who declined to give her last name, was dancing…
Video (2:24) Tango Con*Fusión’s Charity Lebron & Debbie Goodwin dancing to ‘Amelie’ (the vals) played live by Trio Garufa in the production “Tango House” 2009.
Video (5:41): Tango Con*Fusión’s Christy Cote and Chelsea Eng dancing to live music by Trio Garufa in the production “Tango House” 2009.
Video (2:25): Vania Rey and Campbell Miller dancing a tango vals, USA 2016.
Video (2:38): Elizabeth Sadowska and Linda Smith dancing a tango vals, Toronto, Canada, May 14, 2011.
Video (2:41): Peninsula Cho and Yasmin Karatuna dancing a tango vals (2015).