By Birthe Havmøller, Aarhus, Denmark
Tango Argentino is a part of the cultural inheritance and the soul of all Argentines. As a modern international dance, it belongs to anyone (straight or queer) who wants to explore the sensibility that it takes to dance a (Queer) Tango (Argentino).
As a modern queer woman and tango dancer, I would love to ask the tango-world: Why have the straight people of the tango community hijacked Tango Argentino? What happened to the tango community? Tango dancers are usually warm and loving people, but somehow along the way they turned territorial at the milongas (tango balls) and excluded some people from the party. And why do the majority of dancers still
love the strict heterosexual roles —where a man is a leader and a woman is obliged to follow him?
I see the European tango-world as a child of the mindsets of the Argentine teachers and their European (straight/queer, gay/feminist) colleagues, who carried the modern tango to Europe in the mid 1980s. (…)
Download the whole article ‘To (Queer) Tango (Argentino) from a queer dancer’s point of view’ (PDF)
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