Arno Plass | Valentin Meneau

Plurality – a societal condition many people relate to. When it comes to our everyday lives plurality is a challenge. The individuals have to find a way to embody plurality. Therefore, I invite to a workshop in Queer Tango, a practice that holds an intrinsic potential for plurality.

Argentine Tango in general is a form of dance that is extremely communicative. Dancers have to listen to each other in order to make the dance a dance and not just a chain of learned figures. Queer Tango especially breaks with the gendered roles and with the etiquette that dancers find within the conventional dance events.

The workshop gives a short introduction to tango and queer tango and aims to use the walking and some basic steps and movements to illustrate what happens when people dance tango. As usual within Queer Tango, participants will also switch roles. The communicative style of dancing (even when you are a beginner) and the switching of roles allow to experience a connection to other(s) within the body. This experience is the central issue for adapting to plurality.

There is no special bodily ability or dance experience necessary. Come as you are! Participants should be interested in bodily movement and have a curiousness regarding playful encounter with others. As dancers do not want to stick with their feet to the floor please bring either sneakers or thick socks.

Arno Plass: Philosophy (BA), Gender Studies (MA), currently PhD Student at the University of Fine Arts Linz. Project title: “Sediments of the Future – On the Virtuality of the Body Schema along the Bodily Practice of Queer Tango”

Assistance: Valentin Meneau: Musicology (BA), Musicology (MA), Gender Studies (MA) – currently PhD Student at the University of Salzburg in Dance Studies. Project title: “The Genealogy of Female Hypersexualisation in Latin American Competitive Dancing”

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