a tango for every body, with Savvas Kourtis

"I think the gravity and the power of tango ... to bridge a 50-year-old divide is kind of missed."

Cypriot social dancer and creator of a.tango .for.every.body Savvas Kourtis on crossing borders, cultivating curiosity, and adapting tango to work better for every partnership.

Producer/Host: Liz Sabatiuk | Music: "La Madrugada," written by Ángel Maffia with lyrics by Cátulo Castillo and performed and recorded by Juan Villarreal y Patricio Crom | Image Credit: Michaël Jacob

Show Notes

• Follow Savvas’s tango activities in Cyprus via the Instagram profile of a.tango .for.every.body. 
• Learn more about tango at the University of Edinburgh, see a performance of Savvas’s teachers Emily-Rose Sarkova and Refik Unluer, then watch a demo to the song that accompanies this episode (!) featuring Carmen María Hergos, Savvas's teacher in Barcelona (who is now based in Mexico). 
• Hear more about the International Queer Tango Festival in Berlin in Humans of Tango episode 30, “Creating spaces to grow, with Astrid Weiske.”  
• Learn more about Cyprus’s 1974 coup and subsequent Turkish invasion.
• For another perspective on how dancing with beginners can inspire innovation, listen to Humans of Tango episode 15, “Instinct Tango, with Aníbal Dominguez.”
• Read the lyrics of "La Madrugada" in English, translated by Jake Spatz (who you can listen to in Humans of Tango episode 32).

Read a transcript of Savvas's episode here.