Comments on: Queer Tango in Buenos Aires http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/2009/03/27/queer-tango-in-buenos-aires/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eran http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/2009/03/27/queer-tango-in-buenos-aires/#comment-2212 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:20:05 +0000 http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/?p=2148#comment-2212 Hi
Just wanted to say that the website (for the above comment) has now moved to http://verytango.com
Also, reread the article whilst I was back – how touching and beautiful it is! having no experience with queer tango, it gave a quite tantalizing and delicate feel into the scene. Lovely!
eran

]]> By: Eran Braverman http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/2009/03/27/queer-tango-in-buenos-aires/#comment-2063 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:55:50 +0000 http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/?p=2148#comment-2063 Great information. Loved the photos!
Please see also an excellent website about tango – providing many well researched articles about tango (including history of tango, milongas, embellishments, tango legends and lots of others) on
http://www.tangoinfo.com.au
Warm regards,
Eran Braverman

]]> By: Maria http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/2009/03/27/queer-tango-in-buenos-aires/#comment-1471 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:42:31 +0000 http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/?p=2148#comment-1471 Hello,
ich found your site in the weg because ich was serarching for a Miloga nearby in Hamburg.
Dancing tango in Germany ist ist interessting to read your pages. Since I am physiotherapist and ich am used di lead men in my arms teaching hemiparalized people to walk- it wpuld had noch been very hard to me to lead! But since i am a romantic woman and I am off work, ich didn`t want to lead!

But i never felt aktiv as a wommen and this made me very aggressive in the beginning ,since i am an enthusiastic dancer- Freestyle bellydancing Flamenco whatever! I had to keep my artisic mind from producing dancing ideas – i felt like beeing in chains!

The thin that ei did´t unterstand at all is that i kept 7 yeers talking with dancers women and men- and nobody ever unterstood what ich was talking about!

The teacher tried to persuade me that i was beeing aktiv dooing nothig an beeing led!
Beeing aktiv ignoring and surpessing mey own kreativ power!
Many men wer isultet because thex could´nt unterstand why ich was fightig so hard agaist myself to be able to follow!
The mor interessting the Musik the harder the struggle against my owan krative impulses of movement!

They told me – ist is easy -just do nothing!

Ich found out -it is a matter of personality – if you are not a dancer or a krativ person – you will enjoy being led.

Or you do the man a faver – like you do with little children -just to keep him satisfied!

Well ich got used to it! Ich am Quitte good at it !

But it is no Joy for me!

It it a kind of budistic meditation – ignore your own selfischness!

Günther who eich parctised with in the beginnig – always told me : Every other women tell allways tell me That it is niche to dance wiht me – and you allway say it is no fun , but hard work!

If your are an independent kreativ women – there ist no harder work fr you to do than beeing led dancing tango!

If you are women used to be led and non kreative it is easy!

I wont ask foreign Men anymore!
Because there is nothing more desilusionatig than a dance that is mad by politeness! Or beeing used as a sport handle oder in order to impress others, or runn over by a ignorant hyperaktive!Or just pushed arpund by someone who fells great with it because never ever any polite women told him to watch his Pusch and touch!

Well there is al lot to tell about european tango!

Enough now !

I still love the dance the musik but not the Rolls , but i think Queer tango ist just the solution!

I wisch the fols in th eother parts of the world whererever many experiences whatsoever!

Love

Maria

at Hamburg aT present

]]> By: Mike http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/2009/03/27/queer-tango-in-buenos-aires/#comment-1417 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:08:50 +0000 http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/?p=2148#comment-1417 Thank you for sharing this story. Any other tips about BA will be appreciated. I’m heading there for the first time in January. Excited already!

]]> By: Patrick Loughran http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/2009/03/27/queer-tango-in-buenos-aires/#comment-1374 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:29:52 +0000 http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/?p=2148#comment-1374 Thank you for thoughts on queer tango. In NYC, there is an “open role” tango class started by Sergio Segura every Tuesday night 8:30 to 10pm (yes, the class starts late)(www.learnargentinetango.com). And there is a weekly practica at Splash Bar every Saturday 5:30 to 8 pm. Argentine tango isn’t hard to learn but it’s not easy either. Queer tango is an amazing exploration of the dance’s rules and roles, creating more of a sensitive connection between partners. We have to listen more to our partner because the leader-follower role may change at anytime in the dance (it’s almost like a conversation–sometimes we talk, other times we listen). Recently, at a queer tango festival in Copenhagen, I realized that it is bigger than sexuality, when a man I had been dancing with brought his wife to me to talk about tango. What a wonderful world it is when we can dance with whomever we want and leave our preconceptions at the door!

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