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  • 11 - Tango Lessons: What Research on Tango Dancing Can Teach Us

  • from Part III - Tango Dance
  • Edited by Kristin Wendland, Emory University, Atlanta, Kacey Link
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Tango
    Published online:
    15 March 2024
    Print publication:
    28 March 2024, pp 189-203

  • Summary

    Sociologist and tango dancer Kathy Davis provides an ethnographic exploration of passion in tango dancers, and she illustrates how such passion is embodied, attached to strongly felt emotions, and implicated in biographical transformations. She argues that tango dancing offers a perfect site for understanding the importance of passion in ordinary people’s everyday lives, gender relations in late modernity, and the possibilities and pitfalls of transnational encounters in a globalizing world.