Critical ideas and resources about Queer Tango
Tango Entre Mujeres at the 10. Buenos Aires International Queer Tango Festival!! Thursday November, 17 at “Milonga de Gala”. Venue: Milonga de los Zucca, Buenos Aires. TANGO ENTRE MUJERES Mariana Docampo: The independent group “Tango entre Mujeres” (“Tango between Women”) formed last year in March (Women’s Month, 2015) as a…
Video (16:10): ‘Queer Tango and the other dance styles in Argentinian Tango’ is a video presentation by Birthe Havmøller for the 1st Quilombo Queer Tango Festival in Barcelona, Spain, Spring 2016.
Video (2:42): this short film is about Queer Tango in Buenos Aires made by AFP. We see Yuko Artak and Liliana Chenlo AKA Tango Fem teaching Queer Tango. Soundtrack in Spanish. Subtitles in French.
We love this article about tango sisterhood: Ways That Women Help Women In Tango by Mitra Martin.
We love the article: Lady Leading: the Ripple Effect by Sharna Fabiano (October 10, 2016)
Video (4:49): Juan Pablo Ramirez y Daniel Salazar bailan: “Uno” – 1943 Música: Mariano Mores
Video (3:22): Soledad Nani and Marcela Benegas performing at Milonga Chascona, Chile, September 2016.
Image courtsy of Ray Batchelor. Historian and queer tango dancer Ray Batchelor says, “I am delighted to report that a chapter describing “D/deaf CAN Dance!” – a research project I ran jointly with my deaf academic colleague at Bucks New University in the UK, Melanie Parris – is described by…
Video (2:22): The Queer Tango Salon: connecting bodies of knowledge – Here you can see nice Queer Tango dancers from all over the globe dancing in Paris, France.
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…
Video (11:37): Mundial de Tango 2016 Ronda 37 – Diana Cortés and Olga Santamaria.
Three Queer Tango couples – Liliana Chenlo and Yuko Artak; Diana Cortés and Olga Santamaría; Juan Pablo Ramirez and Daniel Arroyo have competed at the Mundial de tango 2016 in Buenos Aires.