Excerpt from ‘El libro de tango queer’, chapter 2
Mariana Docampo: It is about Festival Internacional de Tango Queer in Buenos Aires! From November 14 – 20, 2016 we are going to celebrate the first ten years of the festival and will have everything: milongas, parties, classes, practicas!!
IX Festival Internacional de Tango Queer is a 7 day long festival in Buenos Aires from November 16 – 22, 2015 with 18 workshops 6 milongas, tango performances and much more.
Queer Tango hits BBC Radio 4, Wednesday 19th August, 2015 at 8.00 pm.- To what extent is your identity embodied in gender and sexuality? And to what extent do our attitudes towards such things in Queer Tango provide models for the future of wider society?
Video (2:33) Helen La Vikinga and Javier Guilardi performed a queer milonga: La Cicatriz by Juan D’Arienzo in Stockholm April 2015.
Video (4:24): Helen La Vikinga with Augusto Balizano and Juan Segui. They danced this Queer Tango performance in Buenos Aires on April 18, 2015.
Video (2:49): Helen La Vikinga and Javier Guiraldi performed on 20-09-2013 at the Milonga du Rétro Dancing in Paris.
Video (3:31): Helen ‘La Vikinga’ and Mariana Docampo performed a Queer Tango and a milonga (below) exchanging roles while they were dancing at The Festival Internacional de Tango Queer de Buenos Aires 2014.
Press release via facebook: The VIII International Queer Tango Festival of Buenos Aires is coming! From November 17 – 23 November, 2014 the best moves
Early-bird discounts form 1. May – 30th of June – after that regualry prices follow.
Video (26:12): IdeaChat2 – Straight Women in Queer Tango with Helen La Vikinga, 2011, an interview with by Sasha Cagen.
Video (2:55): Helen La Vikinga & Leonardo Sardella dance milonga at Festival Tango Queer Buenos Aires 2012. Video published by Helen La Vikinga Halldorsdottir.