People of Tango | Portraits: Tanya Gardel Recoleta, Buenos Aires I don’t buy tango clothes because they all look the same and are a little pricey. I buy nice outfits on sale and modify them myself – shortening them, adding slits, lace. Everyone asks me where they can...
People of Tango | Stories: Ruth Offen Bar Dorrego, San Telmo, Buenos Aires “As a woman who runs her own world, I’ve had to learn how to let go in tango. I was blessed with a good mind and an even faster tongue but I’m better at holding my punches now. Most of the...
Mayumi Urgino for People of Tango. Mayumi Urgino is a tango violinist from the US. She pulled up stakes to follow her dream and play tango in Buenos Aires. Riding her bicycle across the night from milonga to milonga, her violin strapped to her back and her smile...
Photographed at Bissap Baobab in San Francisco, CA on 26 December 2017 A phone message from dear friends alerted me to the milonga at a Senegalese restaurant in San Francisco. Though it was the first time I visited this venue, all the usual subjects were there. In...
Author of Dictionnaire Passionné du Tango (SEUIL, 2015). Photographed in Paris, 2016. Tango is half-Argentinian and half-French. Paris has been so important in this back-and-forth between the two countries. There are four key moments in the history of tango when – if...
Celia Meredith – photographed in Portland, Oregon, August 2016 EDITOR’S NOTE: I met Celia at Tango Queer in Buenos Aires when she was an exchange student. She was the way-out-there woman with the shaved head. I was intimidated and fascinated but eventually...
