Adriana is currently studying ‘Anthropology of the dance and Human Movement’
with Dr Drid Williams.

Dr. Drid Williams was a professional dancer, teacher, and choreographer for 30 years before becoming a social anthropologist. She completed graduate degrees (Dip.Soc.Anth., B.Litt., D.Phil.) from St. Hughes College, Oxford, in 1976. She has a book entitled Ideokinesis and Dancing, presently in preparation at the University of Illinois Press (Urbana-Champaign).

Her book, Anthropology and Human Movement: Ten Lectures (2004) is a text for the course, as are other articles she has written. During a long career, she has done fieldwork among the Carmelite nuns, the Dominican friars, and the Royal Ballet Company in England and among Aboriginal communities in Northern Queensland, Australia. She has taught in Moi University in Kenya, at The University of Sydney (Australia), and New York and Indiana universities in the United States. She recently returned (July 2009) from Zhuhai, China, where she taught for two years at United International College. She was founder of the Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement [JASHM] and has been Senior Editor since its inception in 1980.

She is the architect of a theory of human actions called semasiology.

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1-8 July 2012 "Tango Diférente" @ Ponderosa:
a week of workshops and classes exploring the fusion of forms/methods and pedagogical approaches of tango with Contact Improvisation, Feldenkrais, Yoga, Queer Tango, Meditation, Pilates, BodyMindCentering, Skinner Releasing Technique, Improvisation and more!
Lots of Jams, Milongas, Practicas and space to chill out.... even a lovely river for you to swim in : )
Info soon...



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'MOVING PERCEPTION':


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Colloque International: "TANGO: CREATION, IDENTIFICATION, CIRCULATION"
Paris, 26-29 October 2011

presenting:
"Performing gender in Milongas of Buenos Aires: exploring the binary within" by Adriana Pegorer





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10TH QUEER TANGO FESTIVAL HAMBURG 30 SEPTEMBER - 2 OCTOBER 2011

Sunday, 2nd October

Panel discussion
15:00-16:30

11 Years Queer Tango. About the relationship between queer being and queer consciousness. Happy theory vs. resistive practise?

with Paula Irene Villa (Munich), Adriana Pegorer (London), Charlotte Rivero (Stockholm), Felix Feyerabend (Hamburg), Marc Vanzwoll (Boston/San Francisco), Melanie Haller (Hamburg)


Tango Release workshop
16.45-18.30
The workshop develops partnering work into a playful dialogue drawing from contact improvisation and release based techniques principles.

                           

SEE FULL PROGRAMME HERE:
www.queer-tango.de

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.... teaching and directing the participant's show at PHANTASTANGO! in Germany in July 2011

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.....presenting  'Close your eyes and ....dance!' research in Berlin, July 2011

ABSTRACT:

Tango is a social practice layered with etiquette, and vision is one of its primary aspects. For example the "cabeceo", a brief nod employed to discreetly invite, accept and decline to dance, has a fundamental reliance on the exchange of gazes between prospective partners.

But the central role of vision is challenged by, amongst others, the late tango master Carlos Gavito, who proposed the absence of visual engagement for the follower during the dance -if motivated by the dance itself-. The kinaesthetic intention of moving as ‘one heart with four legs’ can, according to Gavito, be better achieved if the sense of sight is not used or is made void in the follower. The skilful leader accompanies the follower within a firm embrace around the dancing hall and amongst the other couples, with legs and feet sometimes touching.

What is the relation between vision and touch in dancing and learning tango?
Drawing on my experience of teaching tango to people with visual impairment, I will critically engage with this problematic. I will focus on how the quality of moving without seeing enriches the dancing and how my practice of release based techniques and Japanese butoh provided me with fundamental teaching tools that foreground kinaesthetic empathy over visual mimesis.

L I N K    TO CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

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Adriana will be  teaching at the 6th International Tango Queer Festival in Stockholm, Sweden 14-15 May 2011 and she will be re-presenting her  'Solo por un tal Gavito' (2005)

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