Abstract
Tango dancers in Buenos Aires milongas (dance clubs) create a mise-en-scène where intimacy and anonymity clash. Their tango and the rules of etiquette they practice share dissonant experiences of violence, exclusion, and trauma with an Argentine grotesque, the grotesco criollo.
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©2013 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013
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