Name: BTO: Katrīna Dūka Queer Tango Club
Start: 2025-04-12T19:30:00+03:00
Location: Manillan Vanha Viinatehdas

$BTO: Katr\u012bna D\u016bka Queer Tango Club$

12.04 at 19:30 in Viinatehdas
Queer Tango Club is a research project, a performance, and a temporary collective of people who come together to learn and dance the Argentine tango. While rehearsing the dance steps, the Queer Tango Club also envisions queer futurities and social structures that transcend current norms and limitations related to gender, sexuality, and identity. Spectators are invited to witness how the Argentine tango becomes a language to express the desire for connection and intimacy, but also to question rules, expectations, and etiquettes enforced on all bodies.
Katrīna Dūka is an emerging theatre-maker and researcher form Latvia, working in the intersection of performance practices, feminist new materialism, and queerness in a Post-Soviet landscape. She obtained her Master’s degree in Performance Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts (the Netherlands) in 2022. Katrīna mainly works collectively and engages in practices with local communities, non-professional performers, and public space. Identity is a key topic in her practice, which she approaches through storytelling – either using words, images or movement. Her works as a co-author have been presented in the International Festival of Contemporary Theatre “Homo Novus” (LV) and on independent stages in Latvia and Estonia.
Idea, direction: Katrīna Dūka
Performers: Queer Tango Club
Composer: Līva Blūma
Tango teacher, choreography: Aigars Stirna
Supported by: EFFEA – European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists, Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds
Free admission!
Duration: up to 35 min
Age recommendation: none
Language no problem
Baltic Take Over (https://baltictakeover.com/) is a performing arts festival co-curated by the New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, and the Lithuanian Dance Information Center, this time in collaboration with Tehdas Teatteri and the New Performance Turku Biennale. Baltic Take Over is made possible in collaboration Ehkä-production, Barker-Teatteri, Viinatehdas and Aurinkobaletti. Baltic Take Over 2025 has been supported by Baltic Culture Fund, Nordic-Baltic Mobility Grant for Culture, Embassy of Estonia in Helsinki and Estonian Ministry of Culture.