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Not as obvious inside the club but Kiara Acosta was a trans person denied in 2019 and there was even a case in 2025 where a club was fined $10k USD for denying entry for a person for “being fat”.

Someone pointed out that the rules actually violate Argentinian legal code for gender discrimination. It basically puts the establishment at risk by enforcing rules that are deemed offensive to the society. It’s weird that forcing gender stuff like this is acceptable where we wouldn’t tolerate...

It can go either way. A friend of mine went to a milonga and, as a new tango dancer, she was dancing at the cortina with her partner. The DJ just stopped the music and didn’t start it again until they both got off the floor. Just silence and him yelling at them to get off the floor and telling...

Mathematically you probably just need a good pair of scissors to show up gender balanced alone

Just make sure that if you show up with all of them at the same time that the group is gender balanced

Is it a dancer bandaid or an organizer bandaid? In some other dance styles that are more gender unbiased it feels like that choice is out of preference, people try out the other role because it’s fun and normally aligns more with a more progressive liberal view of the world in those spheres. In...

They don't need to and it's fine. Not everyone wants to dance with everybody but they still support the community by going to classes, supporting the milongas and the musicians, taking private lessons and such. There used to be a guy that used to go to a salsa club and just dance by himself in...

Tango is super scary for some people. One of my friends is taking a friend she knows from the contact dance and fusion communities to this couples only dance class. They are both women. To her it is an easier way to introduce tango without having to deal with her friend having to navigate...

One approach I saw recently was couples only classes. Basically you had to have a partner to join the class with no rotations. It made it easier for the men who normally would not dance but did it for the wives. There were also people that would normally not partake in rotation based classes...

and dual role actually makes the learning curve worse. Normally some of the more advanced follows show up to help the beginner classes and some leaders get to lead someone who knows what they are doing. Now, these follows are just in the same class as leads, so the beginner classes are not only...

Saw this post that heavily resonated with my experience with tango. ( translation, yes, AI assisted —- forgive me )

In my experience the women who lead are a lot more forgiving of beginner men follows than the men who only lead. In practicas they tend to explain things you’re not doing right in following a bit more clearer and often have a ton of fun drills and exercises or visualizations they share from...

It feels like romance is the wrong word. My impression is that Borges felt people like Gardel made tango decent and also “llorón”, they took out the bravery and replaced it with crybaby whines. It’s a sang pity party instead of a mirror of brave men.

I went to an alt tango party where a couple of the women got down to their bras as it was so hot. Never seen that at a milonga

It’s all perspective but there is some super interesting stuff like the recordings from 1965 of Jose Luis Borges on tango - . It’s pretty rare to have such literary icon take money from writing a book of essays in 1929 to write a tango biography of Evaristo Carriego, revisit it in 1965 and have...

RBF or stone face while dancing feels like a totally different signal than at a cortina or when sitting in the sidelines though…

In a fusion event I go to they read out a “rules of the room” type statement. It’s a bit cheesy but states that if you have issues speak to the host and feel free to say no. It ends with “I say YES to dances, as much as I can, because being welcoming and supportive is important to me”. I feel...

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