Queer Tango
I am a (queer) tango dancer, teacher, artist, and researcher.
I am a founding and regular teacher for weekly queer tango classes at The Center for LGBT Life in NYC, organized by Queer Partner Dance NYC (@qpdnyc, @queertangonyc, Saturdays). I also give conceptual-practical queer tango workshops, including a special introductory workshop called "Moving Together: Queer Tango and Bodily Listening," and a workshop co-developed with my friend and collaborator Maikel Dobarro, called "Queer Tango as Gender Laboratory.”
I am currently touring with Sheila Solis-Arroyo, dancing for Palaver Strings on their Port City tour around the northeast (Sept and Nov 2025).
I've been an invited teacher teaching queer tango at:
Duke University (Durham, NC, 6-week series)
American Dance Festival Studios (Durham, NC, weekly class)
University of Michigan - Dance Department (Ann Arbor, MI)
Playhouse Labs (Detroit, MI)
Abrazo Queer Tango (Bay Area, CA)
Mendocino Arts Center (Mendocino, CA)
Queer Tango Camp (first edition, 2024, Massachusetts)
La Mutinerie (lesbian bar, Paris)
La Maison Ouverte (Paris)
Au Coeur du danse fleur (Lyon)
Cornell University Tango Club (Ithaca, NY)
Further background:
In 2018 I received a Robert C. Bates Postgraduate Fellowship from Yale University to fund my proposed independent experimental research on queer tango in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I spent June through August 2018. Since then I have continued this research independently and collaboratively in Europe and the US. As a researcher, I am particularly interested in kinesthetic communication and the way social forces, including gender, sexuality, and colonially informed choreographies of respectability are negotiated at the corporeal level. My academic paper "Queer/Tango/Theory: Dancing the Binary (and Dancing On Out)" won the Selma Jeanne Cohen award for excellence in dance research from the Dance Studies Association (2022) and is published in the Dance Research Journal (2025).
In October 2019 I gave a tango-derived somatic-theoretical workshop titled “Weather in Common: Queer Tango and Bodily Ecosystems” with KP Parker and Itzayana Guiterrez for the conference “Transcontinental Queerness, Institutionality, and Activism Now” through McGill University, invited by Prof. Alanna Thain. In 2023 I taught Introduction to Queer Tango at Duke University and American Dance Festival Studios (at Duke I was accompanied by co-instructor Emily Varner).
I have frequently done English-Spanish interpretation for the international Chamuyo queer community discussions (2020-2024), and have co-facilitated discussion in the NYC Queer Tango Symposium, organized by Phi Lee Lam (2024).
As an artist, I make visual, choreographic, and video work related to my dance practice and academic research. Among these works is the piece "Pensamientos acerca del tango," with Marisol Cerrini Madrid.