Around the world on a dance floor
I plan a trip to Paris, a city I love. It's not the Louvre or the Left Bank, though, that draws me back this time, but a dance. I shoot off an e-mail to tango teacher Jean-Sébastien Rampazzi and hold...
View ArticleTango is Zen
Excerpt from Tango an Argentine Love Story (Seal Press). “Stay close and do nothing or you might miss it.” Tenshin Reb Anderson, Zen monk, speaking on enlightenment Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006 . . ....
View ArticleWhy Tango is Yoga
“Lo que a muchos averguenza, a otros hacer gozar.” “What shames many, gives joy to others.” -Caption to a tiled mural that features tango dancers, Retiro subway station, Buenos Aires, Argentina...
View ArticleHappiness is a Warm . . . Book Review
Cusumano, Camille. Tango: An Argentine Love Story. Seal, dist. by Publishers Group West. Oct. 2008. c.272p. ISBN 978-1-58005-250-4. pap. $15.95. DANCE Tango has been the subject of several recent...
View ArticleLitQuake: tango, single moms, sex over 60
authors from Seal Press, Joan Price and Rachel Sarah, with our esteemed publicist Andie East, present our books at San Francisco's pre-eminent Literary Festival, LITQUAKE. I'll present Tango, an...
View ArticleDancing with a Star
I had my first television appearance for Tango, an Argentine Love Story this morning on AM Northwest in Portland (KATU/ABC), channel 2 there. It was a lot of fun. Dave Anderson is a stand-up comedian,...
View ArticleTango, an Argentine Love Story media coverage
I've had the pleasure of being interviewed by two savvy women, Felicia Pride and Olivia Giovetta: You can listen to the podcast of my interview with Felicia here, at Seal Press's site. And read...
View ArticleDancing Street Tango in La Boca
I absolutely love walking up to the street dancers in La Boca and asking if they'll dance with me. I've never been disappointed. They are so kind and willing and bravely accept the challenge. My friend...
View ArticleYoga Journal covers Tango
These poses were struck in anticipation of publication of a short article I wrote for Yoga Journal, which will appear in the March 2009 issue in a section called OM. It's about how my Catholic...
View ArticleWhat makes a “real artistic tango dancer?”
Your question really got me thinking---how to answer this succinctly, when really, it took my whole book to write about tango, the art and wonder of it! I pondered your phrase "a real artistic tango...
View ArticleDone it here ever?
I do it in bed all the time. I've done it on planes, on my bicycle, and even in my mother's living room. This morning, like many, after dancing tango for hours the night before, I do it to release...
View ArticleTango and mi madre
They say that in dancing a three-minute tango you learn more about a person than you would over six weeks' worth of coffee chatter. Well, how about when your partner is your mother? What's left to learn?
View ArticleThe Last Tango Christmas Show
December 23, 2009 Eugenio Maria follows me around like a puppy, trying to be heard over the din of music and chatter. He is telling me I’m beautiful or something similar. We’re milling around at the...
View ArticleThe Tango Lesson for Virgins
Teaching tango this morning to virgins – total beginners, I had them first just walk as they normally would walk, in a circle, the line of dance, which is always counter-clockwise. Next, I had them...
View ArticleRubbing up against a stranger (tango)
From National Geographic Traveler, October, 2010 NOW AND THEN, in Buenos Aires, I have the urge to rub against a man I’ve never met. When that occurs, I usually go to La Boca . . .
View ArticleI could’ve danced all night
Original article here. [VIA Magazine, 1999, photo 2007, Kent Wade, Buenos Aires] On a nine-day cruise across the Atlantic, swinging to the Big Band sound of Tommy Dorsey was a breeze—especially for...
View ArticleTango in Nairobi, Africa
Oh, how many people told me "You won't find tango in Nairobi?" They didn't know Mario Ruggier, a native of Malta and naturalized Canadian who came by way of Geneva two years ago to work in Nairobi in...
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