Daniel is now touring this series of tango lectures that includes the topics below, and can also include topics prepared for specific audiences. After 25 yrs of dancing Argentine Tango, extensive contact with the “Milongueros”, Argentina’s tango elders, producing 60 volumes of tango instructional video with more than 40 master teachers, teaching thousands of dancers in more than 100 cites, leading thousands more on tango dance tours to major tango cites, and having collected a voluminous tango archive of video and graphics, Daniel has been gathering all this information into this series of presentations. Each lecture includes slide and video presentations much of which has never been seen before! Each lecture runs 1.5 to 2 hrs:
- A History of Tango. Part 1– Tango’s Roots, its emergence in Argentine Culture, its European travels, and the Golden Years
- History of Tango. Part 2- Tango’s Modern Revival, an eyewitness account of tango’s reemergence as a modern dance, including the impact of tango’s major figures. Daniel is a tango historian, this is your chance to find out where and how tango came to be!
- The History of Tango Music from a social dancer’s perspective.Organized as a lecture/ Practice. Short tandas (sets) of important Orchestras, by chronology, and by popularity with the Milonguros Daniel learned from in the 80s and 90s, with short anecdotal information to introduce the selections.
- Tango’s Modern Techniques and Styles; from the Golden Age to the Revival, to the Reinvention.
- Gender Roles in Tango. Sorting through the traditional perspective, and the modern confusion.
- Tango and Social Justice. The politics, or not, of social dancing and tango in the modern age.
- A Video Showing from Trenner’s extensive archives… clips from Argentine TV, tango movies, tango shows, and footage shot in BsAs by Daniel.