I am indebted to Thomas Keenes for drawing my attention to this striking image. Thomas with Simon Haddock – both London-based – run a well-respected tango discussion forum on Facebook, “The Tango Social Revolutiion“. It is a business card for a woman teacher of “Bailes Modernos de Salón” which includes
Ray Batchelor writes: “You can catch this precise image at 43 minutes 12 seconds or if watch the whole scene from 41 minute 58 seconds in this account of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”: As I wrote in my paper, “Tango teas, trousers and autonomy: images of women dancing
Ray Batchelor writes: “At the source of this image it says: “Women in various Tango postures. A postcard set by Suzanne Meunier, around 1930.” I am going to guess at some date between 1915-1919. I can only find an image like this of the whole set online, not the individual
Ray Batchelor writes: “Taken from an article by Walter Nelson and used by him as evidence of historical same sex dancing. http://www.walternelson.com/dr/same-sex-dance No source is given by Nelson for the image so it is impossible to say which dance they are dancing. It could be tango. Andrew David Field writing
Ray Batchelor writes: “This is an illustration by A. Morel at the centre of some sheet music for the Villoldo tango ‘Elegancias’ reproduced in the book, ‘Paris Buenos Aires’ by Nardo Zalko and dated there as 1914. A full version of the same cover, dated 1913 and said to be
Ray Batchelor writes, “From US Library of Congress: Tango, Long Beach (LOC), [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Ray Batchelor writes: What should we make of this 1929 queer tango from Weimar Germany? https://youtu.be/ecd0OV4E1YA The clip shows Lulu dancing with Countess Augusta Geschwitz (Louise Brooks and Alice Roberts) and is probably the earliest film showing a lesbian dancing tango with another woman. Was it a tango they danced?
Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm text by J. Alberto Mariñas. This, with other images from J. Alberto Marinas’ website is a further example of women shown dancing together – and perhaps the ‘lesbian erotica for the male-gaze’ dimension is less to the fore? Without a proper context, is
Ray Batchelor writes: “From Spanish website http://www.esto.es/tango/espanol/Ellas.htm text by J. Alberto Mariñas. This, with other images from J. Alberto Marinas’ website is a further example of women shown dancing together – and perhaps the ‘lesbian erotica for the male-gaze’ dimension is less to the fore? Without a proper context, is
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