We love the article: Lady Leading: the Ripple Effect by Sharna Fabiano (October 10, 2016)
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I thought the Queer Tango Salon was a wonderful to trigger debates and reflect on what queer tango is and more importantly dancing tango queer may mean, personally and socially. What follows is the result of an activity that we carried out during the event with Olaya Aramo with the…
High Heels, Dancing and Politics: Queer Tango takes a view Ray Batchelor (UK), May 2016. Every now and again, one of us posts something on The Queer Tango Conversation[1] which – as we hope it will – prompts others to comment. What follows is an anthology of the responses prompted…
Can Two Women (or Men) ‘Dance’ Together? by Laura Riva Laura Riva writes in her article: ‘ … when you tell me that partner dance AS A CONCEPT cannot be between two men, two women, or with reversed gender roles, I will point out how wrong that thinking is.’ And…
We Love Sharna Fabiano’s Article: Dancing with Women and would like to reccomend it to our readers. Sharna Fabiano (US) writes in her article Dancing with Women: ‘After many years in the tango community, classes for women still hold a special place in my heart. In offering them, I think…
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’…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
A Spanish version of Juliet McMain’s essay ‘Troubling Effects of Leader/Follower Terminology’ from The Queer Tango Book – Ideas, Images and Inspiration in the 21st Century, translation by Olaya Aramo.
Article by Ray Batchelor about the Football Tango Project which he co-funded with Jack Badu.