Queer in Tango before Queertango: A Conversation with Lexa Roséan

Check it out this weekend at Abrazo, the virtual Queer Milonga.

 A Conversation with Lexa Roséan

"Queer in Tango before Queertango."

 

Lexa Roséan, milonguero and psychoanalyst talks to Miranda Lindelow about being a legendary butch milonguero in straight and queer milongas and why the queertango community needs a close embrace.

Lexa Roséan is one of the great pathfinders for queer dancers of Argentine tango, Lexa Rosean began dancing tango in 1995. Her dancing has earned her national and international recognition: in 2008, Lexa (with dance partner Gayle Madeira) won the US Argentine Tango Championship and became the first woman leader to be invited to dance in the Mundial (World Tango competition in Buenos Aires), paving the way for other same sex tango couples to compete in her footsteps. She placed third in the Salon category of the US competition for three years in a row (2007-2009).

Lexa has been dancing, teaching, organizing, and DJ’ing Argentine tango events since 1995. She organized and hosted the first-ever lesbian milonga, which was held at the famed Rubyfruit Bar and Grill in NYC’s West Village. In 2015, Lexa received her Master’s degree in psychoanalysis at the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (NYGSP), and her thesis on Argentine Tango and Psychoanalysis was awarded the McAloon Award for Excellence. Lexa has also written a blog that charts her early tango journey, http://tigerstango.blogspot.com/.

 

Miranda Lindelow

has been organizing and teaching queer tango since 2006. In 2010 she started the first queer milonga in Paris and since 2016 she teaches queer tango in San Francisco.

Thank you to Miranda, Lily and Madeleine for their work in preparing this segment. Lexa - we can't wait to welcome you.

Long live queer tango!