Dr. Faye Bendrups: selected original works related to Tango or Latin America
Tango Performance Research Projects
2014 Tango Revolucionario: Astor Piazzolla (co-writer/performer), Melbourne
2012 Argentine Social History in Sight and Sound (writer/performer), Melbourne
2011 Tango Tangents (writer/performer), Melbourne
2010 Cancionero América Latina (composer), Melbourne
2009 Milonga Plural (writer/performer), Canberra
2003-2004 Takes Who to Tango (director), London, Barcelona, Basel
2003 Shades of Tango (writer/composer), Melbourne, Buenos Aires
2002 Perpetual Tango (writer/performer), Melbourne
2001 Takes Who to Tango (director), Buenos Aires
2001 Versos Tomados (director/performer), Buenos Aires
2000-2001 Sindromtango: una ópera grotesca (writer/composer), Melbourne, Buenos Aires
2000 Tango Oscuro (writer/performer), Melbourne
1999 From Berlin to Buenos Aires (writer/performer), Melbourne
Publications
Book Chapters
2007 “Cultural Production Buenos Aires 2001: the Praxis and the Practical” in Argentine Cultural Production during the Neoliberal Years (1989-2001), New York: Edwin Mellen Press
http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7130&pc=9
2004 “Talking in Tango Tongues” (with Anad) in Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Galicia: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Publicacions
2004 “The Tango Space of Buenos Aires: Beyond the Physical” in The Space of Culture: Critical Readings in Hispanic Studies, Newark: University of Delaware Press
Online
2002 “Surviving Argentina’s Recession” Sydney: The Diplomat, www.the-diplomat.com
1999 “Tango: Conversations with the Old Guard while Searching for the New” The Digital Bookshelf, Melbourne: La Trobe University www.his.latrobe.edu.au/histres/digbook/digbook.html
Articles
2005 “Social Tourism: A New Way of Seeing Latin America” Melbourne: Fiesta
2004 “The Trail of Ginastera” Melbourne: Fiesta
2003 “Hispanismo Matters” Melbourne: Fiesta
2002 “Surviving Argentina’s Recession” Sydney: The Diplomat
2002 “New Argentine Tango: Breaking Taboos” Melbourne: Fiesta
Compositions
2012 (Song Cycle) Songs for Clea
2010 (Song Cycle) Cancionero América Latina
2005 (Song Cycle) Cancionero Neruda
2003 (Music Theatre) Shades of Tango
2000 (Opera) Sindromtango: una ópera grotesca
Miscellaneous Tango songs written for theatre productions
2014 'Here I Am' milonga in Habitual Criminal, La Mama
2013 ‘Garúas perdidas’ in Versos Tomados
2013 'The Here-Today and Gone-Tomorrow Tango' in Virginia and Some of Her Friends, La Mama
2013 'Gypsy Rose' in Lost in Ringwood, La Mama
2012 'Dream Poems: 6' in Book of Revelations, La Mama
2011 'Song of Marriage' in Dimboola
2011 'Alone' in Tango Tangents, La Mama, Big West Festival
2010 'Song of Squizzy Taylor' in Squizzy, Trades Hall Ballroom
2002 'La Esperanza' from El gaucho Martín Fierro text, in Perpetual Tango, 45 Downstairs
2001 'Tango' arr. of Ricardo Güiraldes poem, in Sindromtango, Mission to Seamen
Public Lectures, Seminars, Conferences
2014 “Tango Argentino: Narration of a Nation”, ANCLAS public lecture series, Australian National University
https://vimeo.com/94938772
2010 "Visualising Tango: the Murals of Buenos Aires", 'Independence: Two Centuries of Struggle', 9th AILASA conference, Australian National University
2009 “Tango Iconography: Depicting Argentine Social History”, ANCLAS public lecture series, Australian National University
2008 “Salvaging Business: Empresas Recuperadas in Argentina (Do Worker-Managed Enterprises have a Future?)”, ANCLAS public lecture series, Australian National University
2008 “Projecting new Social Movements in Argentina”, ANCLAS public lecture series, Australian National University
2008 “Screening Voice of Human Rights in Argentina”, ‘Remapping Cinema, Remaking History’ Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (FHAANZ) conference, University of Otago
2008 “Tango: a Universal Argentine Genre” (with Anad), ‘Making Connections in Music Research’, School of Music Symposium, Australian National University
2008 “Tango and Perón”, ‘The Popular in Spain, Portugal and Latin America’ 8th International Conference, Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia, Monash University
2006 “Performing Argentina: Playing out Real Imagined Worlds”, ‘Hyperworld: Language, Culture and History’ 7th International Conference, Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia, University of Technology, Sydney
2004 “Tango Lingo: Reading Argentina with Tango” (with Anad), by invitation of Dr Omar García Obregón, Queen’s College, University of London
2004 “The Built Environment of Buenos Aires: public art, graffiti and pamphleteering”, ‘South 1: The Gathering’: The South Project International Conference, Melbourne
2004 “Tango: Virility and Violence”, ‘Masculinities in Hispanic Cultures’ symposium, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics (Hispanic Studies), Monash University
2004 “Shades of Tango: Researching Performance and Performing Research”, ‘Contact, Communication and Creation’ 6th International Conference, Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia, Flinders University
2003 “Los Desaparecidos de Argentina: la presencia de los ausentes” (with Anad), by invitation of Dr Susan Ballyn, Executive Director, Australian Studies Centre, Departamento de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2003 “Talking in Tango Tongues” (with Anad), 3rd International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
2003 “Takes Who to Tango?: an experience in location, identity and transformation” (with Anad), ‘Poetics of Exile’ conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2002 “Argentina and Tango: Misnomers of Nationness” (with Anad), ‘National Narratives and Identities in a Global World: the Case of Latin America’ conference, Institute of Latin-American Studies, La Trobe University
2002 “The Tango Space of Buenos Aires: Beyond the Physical”, ‘Revisions and Inversions’ symposium, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics (Hispanic Studies), Monash University
2002 “La Argentina actual: contemporary sociopolitical events in Argentina” (with Anad), School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, Brisbane
2002 “The Voice of the People: the Writing’s on the Wall, Argentina” (with Anad), School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, Brisbane
2002 “Tango Anthropology: excavating the past and sifting through the present in Argentina” (with Anad), Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
2002 “Cinetango: Tango and Argentine Cinema” (with Anad), Cinemedia, for Melbourne Filmoteca
2001 “Sindromtango: an Intercultural Experiment”, by invitation of Adolfo Reisín, Seminario de las Artes y los Derechos Humanos, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 “Tango: Denial and Impotence”, Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne
2000 “Tango: an Historical Overview”, School of Spanish, University of Melbourne
2000 “Sindromtango: an Experiment in Experiential Learning”, ‘Violence, Memory and National Reconciliation’ conference, Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne
2000 “Argentine Cultural Expressions: Globalization and Representation”, ‘Globalization and the Luso-Hispanic World’ conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney
1999 “Tango: Conversations with the Old Guard while Searching for the New”, ‘Latin America, Spain and Portugal; Old and New Visions’, 4th International Conference, Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia, La Trobe University
1999 “Tango Argentino: a Short History”, School of Spanish, La Trobe University
Recordings
2015 Lunfardo
2014 Fracanapa
2012 Todo Buenos Aires
See also
https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/tangomundo/id848835724
