Critical ideas and resources about Queer Tango
1. Quilombo Queer Tango Festival in Barcelona, Spain Olaya, Daphne, Carmen, Carol and Eva invites you to come to the 1. Quilombo Queer Tango Festival in Barcelona, Spain. The festival takes place May 25 – 29, 2016. The festival features milongas, tango classes with Soledad Nani; Lucas de Buenos Aires;…
Video (1:00): Ana Maria Schapira and Monika dancing a Tango Miloguero at Parakultural, Buenos Aires, 2015.
Video (2:48): Claudio Ruberti and Marco Gallizioli performed a Queer Tango in Padova, Italy, April 2016. Music: Tigre Viejo by Fresedo.
Ilgın Tetikcan and Ayşe Karaoğlu’s performance at the TANGOLİC milonga on March 28, 2014.
Video (3:15): Ilgın Tetikcan and Ayşe Karaoğlu’s dance at Akademi Tango on March 1, 2015.
Video (2.42): Natasha Lewinger, Monika and Ryszard danced a Tango Milonguero on November 29, 2015 in Szczecinie, Poland. Video footage by Hale Ratajska and Ryszard.
Video (3:14): Natasha Lewinger and Iahara Stolarsky performed a tango with open roles at Instituto Equilibrio’s 10. anniversary, Montevideo, 2015.
RUSSIAN DRAMA is coming soon! Dear tango friends all over the world, we invite you to our second Queer Tango Festival QTC in the most beautiful city of Russia — St Petersburg! From 1th to 5th of June 2016, you will have a chance to explore the beauty of Russian…
Tango Con Fusion is offering a class a day in “exchange of lead/follow roles” during the festival. The registration for San Francisco’s 4th Annual Lady’s Tango Festival 2016 is open now!
Festival Queer Tango Montreal – May 6-8, 2016 See the programme at www.queertangomontreal.com/ The teachers are: Leonardo S. (NY) Lucas DeBuenosAires (BsAs/Boston) Krista B. (Worcester, USA) Nancy Lavoie (Québec) Yannick Allen-Buillet (Québec) Thierry G. (Ottawa/Berlin) Alejandro Villalobos (Montréal)
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…
Video (2:38): Edgardo Fernández Sesma and Esteban Mioni performing a Queer Tango (intercambio) in Buenos Aires.