ABRAZOS is a publishing house with headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany and Córdoba, Argentina; since 1999 it has been publishing books about Tango and Argentina literature in English, German, Italian, French, and Spanish. In addition, its founder, Daniel Canuti, teaches, gives exhibitions, and lectures on Tango.
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Books about Tango
Tango Queer Buenos Aires
€16.00Writer: Mariana Docampo
130 pages
All dance spaces (with their traditions, their physical requirements, their gendered performances) can be thought of as political devices for the body and its practices. They are cultural zones where possible forms of life are rehearsed—often in an unconscious way. They set in motion new probable and improbable relationships among bodies.
Latest Books
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Books about Tango
New Glossary of Tango Dance
€20.00New Glossary of Tango Dance. Key Tango Argentino dance terms.
Writter: Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
100 pages with photos.
The New Glossary of Tango Dance comes is the result of a 10 year long thoughtful research. Its first edition, published in 2004 was an outstanding success. It´s demand all over the world made it be re-printed several times.
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Books about Tango
The Quest for the Embrace
€30.00The History of Tango Dance (1800-1983)
Writer: Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
240 pages with illustrations.
In 2009, UNESCO declared the Argentine tango to be part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Preceding this honor, there is a long history of men and women that created the dance, giving form to a way of life.
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Books about Tango
TANGO Vol. 2
€35.00TANGO. The Structure of the Dance 2. The Matrix.
Writer: Mauricio Castro
144 pages with illustrations.
Mauricio Castro´s book offers a new system to help tha dancer creatively develop his/her tango using solidly established technical foundations.
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Out of stockBooks about Tango
The Tango Scene
€18.00The Tango Scene. Swing in
Writter: Sonia Abadi
116 pages.
“El bazar de los abrazos”, written by Sonia Abadi, takes us through the world of dancing tango where men and women are the main characters of this universe of dreams and reality.
Through its pages we travel to the milonga, “a permament emergency room for those who suffer the lack of tango, life and acquaintances”.
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Books about Tango
Argentine Tango: a pocket ‘breviary’ for its dancers
€15.00Author: Patricia Müller
186 Pages
In this book, we discover the code of honor of the ‘porteños’ dancers of the Tango Milonguero who have remained ‘uncontaminated’ by the tourism surrounding the Tango and who are more or less 70-80 years old.
