Cheek to cheek: keeping the tango alive during Covid in Buenos Aires | photo essay

The dance that depends on what Covid prevents - close physical intimacy - is not only a cultural passion but also now a threatened source of income for many workers. Photographer Anita Pouchard Serra has been documenting how dancers are surviving the crisis

In a pretty little plaza next to a railway track, there is proof that not even a pandemic can keep us apart.

Five couples lean in, cheek to cheek, marking steps that mirror the circuitous route of life. If there is a map, it rises out of a portable speaker, and the melancholic poetry of a tango.