Tango and Ecologies of Stress
/
Socially, tango can be a protective buffer to the effects of stress on a few different levels. It can also exacerbate the effects on those same levels.
Read MoreAre You Actually Dancing Tango If You Aren’t Dismantling Systems of Oppression?
/
If there’s a disconnect so profound in your own body that you can diminish the overwhelming evidence of harm and oppression enacted on others’ bodies, how could you ever be connected enough to your own body to facilitate reciprocal enjoyment in a dance?
Read MoreTension as Instrumental to Anti-Racism (and as it just so happens, Tango)
/
…just like you can’t dance tango without certain, specific timbres of tension at different times, neither can you truly practice anti-racism without purposefully leaning into the tension you experience when looking at the ways your actions (or inaction) uphold white supremacy.
Read More
