Lesley Mitchell
To the milonga

Lesley Mitchell traveled to Argentina to carry out a production residency in ´ace and deepen her knowledge in tango dance.

The artist will have the project A la milonga that combines the visual arts with an anthropological point of view on tango and milongas (Events that take place almost every day of the week in Buenos Aires).

The dance is temporary, it exists only when it happens, while the visual arts produce a physical object for long-term contemplation.

During her stay in Buenos Aires, Leslie Mitchell investigated Tango dance as a multimedia phenomenon that contains music, dance, song and poetry.

In the accent workshop he carried out a series of monotypes in which he addressed the subject of communication without words that takes place between tango dancers. He worked with the technique of waterless photolithography to edit an artist’s book in which he transmits the atmosphere of Tango events, where the lines between the artists and the spectators are blurred, where the drama is constant and visible.