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13 - Re-imagining the Future of Tango Dance

from Part III - Tango Dance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Carolyn Merritt
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

Anthropologist and social tango dancer Carolyn Merritt had begun to take dance lessons in leading, then the COVID-19 restrictions shut down in-person classes and milongas. As she continued to pursue her quest in leading, Merritt reflects on her experiences and insights about how tango is politically generative, confronts the struggles many women face with tango, and provides a more profound examination into tango’s evolution and future. As she applies such findings of her embodied research, Merritt raises larger questions about how tango impacts the total human experience, especially during the COVID-19 restrictions.

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Tango during COVID-19gender roles in tangoleading and following roles in tango
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 221 - 242
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Agunos, Misha. “Are You Actually Dancing Tango If You Aren’t Dismantling Systems of Oppression?” Oxygen Tango, June 10, 2021. www.oxygentango.com/blog/tangoandoppression.Google Scholar
Biss, Eula. On Immunity: An Inoculation. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Del Mazo, Mariano, and D’Amore, Adrián. Quien Me Quita Lo Bailado. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2001.Google Scholar
Fabiano, Sharna. Lead and Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork. Virginia Beach: Koehler Books, 2021.Google Scholar
Kral, German. Un tango más. Culver City: Strand Releasing Home Video, 2016.Google Scholar
Londoño, Ernesto. “‘A Caricature of the Patriarchy’: Argentine Feminists Remake Tango.” New York Times, October 5, 2019. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/americas/argentina-tango-gender.html.Google Scholar
McGowan, Charis. “All-Women Argentina Tango Festival Calls for End to Machismo,” Al Jazeera, March 12, 2019. www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/12/all-women-argentina-tango-festival-calls-for-end-to-machismo.Google Scholar
Merritt, Carolyn. Tango Nuevo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McMains, Juliet. “Rebellious Wallflowers and Queer Tangueras: The Rise of Female Leaders in Buenos Aires’ Tango Scene,” Dance Research 36, no. 2 (2018): 173–197.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Runyan, Christine. “What’s Happening in Our Nervous Systems?” Interview by Krista Tippett, On Being, March 18, 2021. https://onbeing.org/programs/christine-runyan-whats-happening-in-our-nervous-systems/.Google Scholar

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