Technique & safety
Works:
- Ronda avoiding bumper cars
- Relaxing, listening to your body
Doesn’t work:
- More advanced dancer should adapt, but what if you’re not advanced enough to have learned that yet?
What if we explicitly teach adaptability earlier?
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Just heard that the place in Buenos Aires that has a ban on same-gender dancing literally carved in stone is FINALLY changing.
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Now we’re talking about negative sides of the códigos we’ve experienced.
“Your clothes/shoes determine your role.”
Many of the women have the “if we go to straight milongas, the men snub us because we also lead” problem.
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Next is how, in late 19th century and early 20th century Buenos Aires, there were a lot of immigrants with no shared language, and some of the códigos provided a way to do nonverbal consent.
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Ray: “my first few years of tango, 1993–1997, Augusto hadn’t done his milonga yet, so nobody was gay. I mean, everybody was gay, but nobody was gay.”
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On the topic of the codification and evolution of códigos over time in Argentina and abroad…
Book rec: Argentina Queer Tango: Dance and Sexuality Politics in Buenos Aires
By Mercedes Liska
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We are now moving to group chats. Here’s the agenda and the topics.
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