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.
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…
Copenhagen Queer Tango Marathon – We welcome you to celebrate New Year in Copenhagen with your chosen queer tango family! Join us at M2tango Studio [in Copenhagen] from Friday December 30, 2016 to Sunday January 1, 2017 for a festive weekend of wonderful music, dancing, friends and food. Your favorite…
Video (4:52): Gaston Torelli and Matias Facio improvising, changing roles and creating fabulous moments at Tango Alchemie 2015.
Video (4:25): Ariadna Naveira and Fernando Sanchez’s Queer Tango performance at La Marshall (2009).
Video (3:06): Astrid Weiske, J.P Ramirez and Daniel Arroyo performing at the Queer Tango Festival Berlin 2015.
video (2:09): Philly Queer Tango’s Lauren Onorato and Karen Johnson recap their lesson on April 16, 2016 in Philadelphia, USA.
Video (18:52): A clip from the Greek movie TO TANΓΚΟ ΤΩΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΩΝ/The Christmas Tango (2011) which is based on a novel by Yannis Xanthoulis. The story takes place in 1970 and a tango changes the lives of the Colonel Emmanuel Longus, his wife Zoi and the soldier Lazaros Lazarou. The…
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’…