LIGHTS, CAMERA, TANGO! and what we can learn from it ( Prof. John Osburn)

Tango Lecture Series presents LIGHTS, CAMERA, TANGO! - and what we can learn from it Professor John Osburn REGISTER: https://www.philadelphiatangoschool.com/lecture-series-via-zoom-Wednesdays $15 (additional attendee in the same household $5) If tango’s had a movie career, it’s had its ups and downs. It’s played leading roles and supporting parts, guest starred in cameos, been the extra in the background. It’s appeared as title, soundtrack, dramatic device, and signature scene. It’s been parodied, misunderstood, honored with documentaries, and granted a genre to call its own. During this talk, tango will reprise its many roles, from the Argentine tango film to Hollywood to the international cinema. It will entertain us in film clips, recall its hits and flops, illuminate its history, answer some awkward questions (or not), and speak to its place in our lives, as dance, music, and social event. BIO John began dancing tango in 2008 and has sought out its history and culture ever since. In 2018, as a theater studies instructor at NYU, he taught a course looking at tango on stage and film from its origins to the present. He translates and recites tango lyrics for Milonga Falucho in New York (whattangomeans.com), was artist-in-residence with Tangolandó at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, co-facilitated a workshop on tango and communication at the Cooper Union, participated in the Greater NYC Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience’s NeuroTango: Brainwaves in Sync?, and writes and translates for the Social Tango Project in Buenos Aires. John has a PhD in Performance Studies from NYU and has worked as a critic, editor, director, dramaturg, and professor.