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The Healing Power of Tango: Insights from the 2024 Tango Connects Berlin Conference
The Healing Power of Tango: Insights from the 2024 Tango Connects Berlin Conference by Julia Kaesmyer In September 2024, the inaugural “Tango Connects Berlin” small group conference brought together approximately 75 participants from diverse backgrounds—dancers, teachers, therapists, researchers, and practitioners—to explore the transformative and healing potential of Argentine tango. As an industrial and organizational psychologist […]
The Creation of the New Tango: The Ghosts of Ginastera, Mulligan, and Salgán in Astor Piazzolla’s Musical Brainstorming
The Creation of the New Tango: The Ghosts of Ginastera, Mulligan, and Salgán in Astor Piazzolla’s Musical Brainstorming by Omar García Brunelli Introduction: tango in the first place After a lifetime of arguments with his colleagues in the field of tango music, Piazzolla attended a meeting in Buenos Aires in 1988 where he met many […]
Notes on Re-imagining the Future of Tango Dance
Notes on Re-imagining the Future of Tango Dance by Carolyn Merritt August 2024: Dear Tango, As I enter the second half of my life, I take solace in your rebirth, see my passage beyond 50 as the start of something new. Of course, newness is but a concept, and who knows that better than you? […]
A Spectre Haunts Tango: The Guitar as a Symbol of Nostalgia in Argentine Tango
A Spectre Haunts Tango: The Guitar as a Symbol of Nostalgia in Argentine Tango by Eric Johns In the histories of Rioplatense tango, perhaps no instrument better represents the tension between tradition and modernity than the guitar. While unquestionably central to the tango’s early development, the guitar gradually disappeared from mainstream tango ensembles, only to […]