Critical ideas and resources about Queer Tango
The Queer Tango Project, aka yours truly (Birthe Havmøller) and Ray Batchelor, are happy to announce that we have published a new free queer tango ebook book and a not for profit paperback version of the book. The book was launched at the International Queer Tango Festival in Berlin, July 2023.
October 26-30, 2023. New York Queer Tango Festival, USA. Organised by Leonardo Sardella and Walter Perez.
Video (2:37): Keila Luciano and Ariadna Zaehnsdorf dancing an tango with open roles in Genova, Italy (2022). Music: ‘Llorar por una Mujer’ by Enrique Rodríguez and Armando Moreno.
Video (3:01): Astrid Weiske (Germany) and Libe Free (Spain) dancing a same-sex vals at Festival de Tango Queer in Montreal, Canada, 2022.
Video (1.18.04): Zoom interview, queer tango teacher August Balizano talks about his tango story and queer tango in BA.
Ezgi Turmuş and Kat Gorsuch danced a lovely open role milonga on a very slippery floor at Bebob in Berlin on 9th July 2022. A rough video by Birthe Havmoeller, Denmark.
Video (3:04): Yelizaveta Nersesova and Lauren Woods dancing open role tango with the traditional sustained close embrace.
Video (3:59): 3er Festival Chamuyo Tango Queer en Valencia, España. Mayo 2022. – The video is in Spanish. Organiser Alfonso del Moral talks to us about the festival.
Video (0:51): Ricardo Vidort and Osvaldo Cartery dancing in 2004. Music: El Recodo tango by Carlos di Sarli. Thanks to Tango Apilado on Youtube for sharing this old same-sex video from the time before Youtube was launched on the Internet.
Video (3.47): Bailan Liliana Chenlo y Aurora Lubiz en la Domilonga! Liliana Chenlo and Aurora Lubiz performing a queer tango at La Domilonga Tango Club in San Telmo, Buenos Aires (2018).
Video (1:34): Reel de la Obra “Vinculadas” de Anahí Carballo (2019); Compañía Tango Entre Mujeres.
Compañía Tango Entre Mujeres: ‘La Cumparsita’. Dirección y coreografía: Anahí Carballo (2022).