Port City explores tango music throughout the genre’s history, and features bandoneon visionary Heyni Solera as soloist and composer. Palaver will perform danceable classics alongside contemporary tango-inspired compositions. We will also welcome powerhouse dancers Luna Beller-Tadiar and Sheila Solis Arroyo to join us for a full tanda, or series of tango dances. This performance will celebrate tango’s ongoing evolution and the powerful interplay between music and dance, as well as how the genre is being reclaimed by marginalized identities, especially women and queer artists. 

movement workshop at 3-4:45pm

intro to queer tango: bodily listening and moving together 

This class introduces participants to tango practice and to the rich space of possibility for (de)gendered relation that queer dancers make there. In a concept-rich warm up we will find the porosity of our bodies, our capacity to listen, sense, and transmit movement and feeling. Through carefully framed tango fundamentals; invitation to reflection and conversation; and more expansive guided group play, we will open the channels of communication within and between our bodies to the pleasure of moving together, improvising with precision and with freedom.