Earthdance
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Christos Galanis, Eliana Bonard, Daniel Trenner · 32 min · 0 chapters
Christos Galanis hosts a long conversation with tango and contact improvisation dancers Daniel Trenner and Eliana Bonard, recorded ahead of their Contact Improv/Tango workshop at Earthdance in Massachusetts, July 2023 (this is the full interview the shorter video qpZzZbSRd3A excerpts). Eliana Bonard describes growing up in San Telmo, her teachers Graciela González and a tango teacher she names as Rodolfo Dinzel, and the milonga scene in Buenos Aires today, both traditional and queer. Daniel Trenner traces his own path from a childhood at his father's summer camp through Grotowski-method acting, African dance and contact improvisation to becoming, by his account, the only foreigner studying Argentine tango at the start of its 1980s revival, and describes the golden-age milonguero practice culture, his own push to have dancers of all genders learn both lead and follow, and his idea of 'shared proprioception.' They close on gender, feminism, and what each dance form fears in the other.
Christos Galanis, Eliana Bonard, Daniel Trenner · 9 min · 0 chapters
Christos Galanis interviews tango and contact improvisation dancers Daniel Trenner and Eliana Bonard ahead of their Contact Improv/Tango workshop at Earthdance in Massachusetts, July 2023. Eliana Bonard describes how combining the two forms lets a dancer leave and return to the tango embrace, and the shared footwork she and Trenner have built together. Daniel Trenner explains 'shared proprioception,' an idea he draws from years studying Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and what tango dancers and contact dancers each find frightening in the other form.
