We present the first newsletter from the Queer Tango Book Project: The Queer Tango Book | September 2014
Travel tips by Olaya Aramo: Madrid’s queer tango community is still very small but growing. You can go dancing every Friday night at the queer milonga La Traviesa run by Olaya Aramo at Asociación cultural Embajadores con Provisiones, Embajadores 49, 28012 Madrid, Spain. La Traviesa takes place in the Lavapiés…
Video (2:48): This dance with lead and exchange is the second part of Corina Herrera and Melina Brufman’s performance at the Viva La Pepa! milonga in Buenos Aires, September 29 2013.
Queer Tango teacher Ekaterina ‘Kot’ Khomenko, 29, was found dead in her car early in the morning of September 7 2014.
Video (5:05): Juan Pablo Ramírez and Daniel Arroyo performed this lovely tango in high heels at the Maldita Milonga, March 2014.
Save the dates!
Video (2:25): Yuyú Herrera and Soledad Nani performing at the old tango bar Los Laureles in Barracas, Buenos Aires. 2014. Music: ‘Mulatada’ by Amores Tango.
Video (3:33): San Francisco Tango Exchange 2006. Game: Tape Line by Daniel Peters. The leader must dance on the blue tape the follower is free to move around her leader. The dancers exchange roles and position. Dancers: Rebecca Shulman and Rebecca Rorick Smith.
Video (3:38): ‘De Hombre a Hombre’ – stage video projection by Prisca Lobjoy on the Tango 3.0 Tour of Gotan Project in 2012.
Video (3:17): The tango from a surprise performance by Maestra Olga Besio and her daughter, Ariadna Naveira, on Saturday night, July 26, 2014 at Tango Element Baltimore 2014. And they danced a tango vals too.
Video (2:25): Yana Khalilova (leading) and Yulia Vasiljeva performed this tango vals at the 2nd Russian Queer Tango Festival in St Petersburg August 2014.
Video (2:57): Otar Bagaturiya and Yuri Panov performed at the 2nd Russian Queer Tango Festival in St Petersburg, 23.08.2014.