"Contacting Tango" is screening in Sunday Oct 13, 2024, 7:00 pm Program

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Description:

This intimate video portrait of Irina Jabsa and Guadalupe Santiago showcases the art of contactango, a fusión of contact improvisation and tango. Bringing the principles of contact improvisation into dialogue with tango not only increases tango’s creative range in terms of body shapes, embrace, and vocabulary, but it interrupts tango’s gendered lead/follow binary. The roles of leader and follower are exchanged so frequently and fluidly that the border between the two roles starts to dissolve.

Director Biography - Juliet McMains

Juliet McMains is a Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Washington, where she writes, researches, teaches, and makes art about social dance practices and their theatrical expression. She is currently working on a series of video portraits of tango and folklore artists in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Country of Filming: Argentina

Country of origin: USA