Here is Anahí Carballo’s guide to Buenos Aires’s queer tango scene, from Muchaches in the barrio to the Tango World Championships. The article was published in June 2024 by the BBC.
The war in Ukraine affects everything and everyone. How does it affect queer tango? Are we, who dance it, any different from anyone else in how we think, feel, act, and respond? Can we make a difference? – these are all questions asked by Ray Batchelor in his latest article.
Tango Queer Buenos Aires by Mariana Docampo, (English version, Abrazos 2020). Reviewed by Ray Batchelor.
Thanks to Amy Groshek (American phd student and tango instructor) for writing the article below which features a list of advices to straight tango teachers, when they want to reach out to the queer community and teach queer people to dance open role or queer tango.
A review by Ray Batchelor for the Queer Tango Project.
1er Encuentro Formativo de Tango Queer Valparaiso Chile. November 21-23, 2019.
Festival review by Margaret Trotter / Queer Tango London.
We love this recent news article about tango singer and composer Marisa Vazquez and Tango Hembra by Al Jazeera’s Charis McGowan.
The Queer Tango Team recommends: ‘Tango queer. Intervista a Faysal Tekoğlu’ in the Italian magazine Kaleydoskop.it.
Article by Liz Sabatiuk about the Queer Tango Programme of Tango Mercurio, Washington DC.
The Queer Tango Project presents the essay, ‘A New Trend: Open Role Tango Events in Mainstream Tango’ by Birthe Havmoeller.
Queer Tango Space – Minority Stress, Sexual Potentiality, and Gender Utopias
Juliet McMains
TDR: The Drama Review 62:2 (T238) Summer 2018. pp 59-77
A review by Ray Batchelor.
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