Join our virtual book launch party on 5th June 2021 at The Queer Tango Conversation on Facebook. We launch “Queer Tango Futures: Dancing for Change in a Post-Covid World”, a free ebook with a selection of essays and artworks by dancers for dancers.
Dearest Queeridxs and open-role tango enthusiasts around the globe mark the dates of our festivals in 2022 in your agendas.
Abrazamos a Augusto y Gustavo Festival de Tango Queer. Online tango festival 10-16 May 2021. Payment by donation “A la gorra”.
The deadline for submission for the Queer Tango Futures eBook having passed, the Editorial Team are now working hard on it and we hope to publish it later this year.
Tango Queer Buenos Aires by Mariana Docampo, (English version, Abrazos 2020). Reviewed by Ray Batchelor.
The English version of Tango Queer Buenos Aires by Mariana Docampo will be published end of October 2020. Learn more about the book.
ConeXion Queer Tango Festival takes place in Miami, USA, on October 7-11, 2020. The festival is organised by Tango Out and Ray Sullivan. It also includes a day of cyber tango with a number of online events.
The online festival ‘Abrázame Mucho’ was a huge success and the organisers Rey Flores and Carlos Blanco, from Mexico City, are telling us they’ll run the online festival again in the summer of 2021.
Video (3:28): Daria Swan & Daria Haze – tango nuevo (queer tango) performance at the VI Queer Dance Festival in Moscow, Russia. Video published by Queer Dance Club, June 13, 2020.
Video (3:42): Tango argentino, open role practise by Agnieszka Stach and Irina Nosova. Pure joy of female dancing. Kraków, Poland, January 2020. Video by TangoNuevo TV.
Video (2:35): tango teachers Alexandra Baldaque and Joana Sampaio (2015) performing a queer tango at 6º ANIVERSÁRIO LIÇAO TANGO (tango school) in Portugal on 16/01/2015.
Video (1:47): festival trailer ‘In Love’ by Queer Dance Festival in Moscow.