Edgardo Fernández Sesma to Join others at The Queer Tango Salon: Connecting Bodies of Knowledge. Edgardo Fernández Sesma, perhaps Buenos Aires’ most indefatigable Queer Tango activist will be coming to Paris for 16-17 September this year to The Queer Tango Salon: Connecting Bodies of Knowledge, a meeting of Queer Tango…
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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’…
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…
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…
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 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:…
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…
Article by Ray Batchelor about the Football Tango Project which he co-funded with Jack Badu.
Essay by Ray Batchelor. Tango Performance, QueerTango Festival Berlin 2015. Photo courtesy of QueerTango Festival Berlin and Ksusha Ivanova. It cannot be anything other than an honour to be part of a performance piece to be produced at lightening speed by Brigitta Winkler, to whom so much that is significant…
Our thanks to Astrid Weiske for an opportunity to promote “The Queer Tango Book” at the wonderful, candlelit Opening Milonga at Tango Loft in Berlin.
Article by The Football Tango Project, England The Football Tango Project at St George’s Park – “The Home of English Football” The Football Tango Project is a Bucks New University research initiative. We help sharpen players’ physical reactions as footballers through dancing tango with each other. We ask them afterwards…
EL LIBRO DE TANGO QUEER Ideas, imágenes e inspiración para el siglo XXI. Introducción a cargo de Birthe Havmoeller, Ray Batchelor y Olaya Aramo. Traducido por Olaya Aramo.