Queer Tango Club is a research project, a performance, and a temporary collective of people who come together to learn and dance the Argentine tango. While rehearsing the dance steps, the Queer Tango Club also envisions queer futurities and social structures that transcend current norms and limitations related to gender, sexuality, and identity. Spectators are invited to witness how the Argentine tango becomes a language to express the desire for connection and intimacy, but also to question rules, expectations, and etiquettes enforced on all bodies.
ARTISTS:
Katrīna Dūka is an emerging theatre-maker and researcher form Latvia, working in the intersection of performance practices, feminist new materialism, and queerness in a Post-Soviet landscape. She obtained her Master’s degree in Performance Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (the Netherlands) in 2022. Katrīna mainly works collectively and engages in practices with local communities, non-professional performers, and public space. Identity is a key topic in her practice, which she approaches through storytelling – either using words, images or movement. Her works as a co-author have been presented in the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre “Homo Novus” (LV) and on independent stages in Latvia and Estonia.