Critical ideas and resources about Queer Tango
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’…
Video (1:18): The tango scene from the Dutch film ‘Soldaat van Oranje’ (1977). The film directed by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé. The film is set around the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The story is based on…
Video (6:19): Astrid Weiske and Kat Gorsuch perform at the LGBTI Pavillion, International Tourism Fair Berlin 2016 for the Argentine Embassy.
Today, The Queer Tango Project launches The Queer Tango Image Archive. The Queer Tango Image Archive is a digital collection of historical, pre-1995, images relating to the themes and issues touched on by Queer Tango. Birthe Havmøller, founder of The Queer Tango Project, designed and built the website, and for…
Video (0:54): A trailer about the Queer Tango Practica at Cosy in Montreal, Canada.