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 .

How can Argentine women, after imprisonment and torture, reconstruct what happened to them, represent their experiences, and understand how doing theatre in prison helped them? Men exprisoners acknowledge that women have advanced further in developing strategies that move beyond the hierarchical and authoritarian activism of the Leftist resistance.