Argentina
October 22, 2009
- What Mark Sanford did for love and Buenos Aires This evening in Buenos Aires, I danced at Confíteria La Ideal, the salon where Madonna was filmed performing tango in Evita. Like so much of Argentina's capital, La Ideal with its marble stairs, Greek columns, beveled mirrors, and dark wood, is an architectural masterpiece but in a bit of disrepair. All of which adds to the romance ...
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April 23, 2009
- Hey, come on down to Argentina for this writing workshop and mix pleasure with pleasurable business:From my Web site's pitch for the next workshop: There’s no more inspiring way to practice travel writing than to immerse yourself in a foreign culture. Anyone can craft an image-rich postcard to send home, but how do you fashion prose with style and substance— that give your writing broader ...
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February 27, 2009
- Hola! Just checking in, as I've been in transition for a while as I get re-settled down here in Buenos Aires. I've added a few new posts to my own Web site/blog that may interest you:Watch a 3-minute video of my current apartment here in the Recoleta Barrio (up for rent now):http://www.camillecusumano.com/uncategorized/recoleta-apartment-for-rent-in-buenos-aires/Read about why Argentines are not ...
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February 23, 2009
- I recently co-wrote and appeared in a stage show entitled "Tango: A Romantic Ritual". It was video-taped and is available from Social Dance Cultures. I was interviewed for the show as well, and I hope you'll take a look at these few portions of the conversation.
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January 2, 2009
- At 18 lanes and 110 metres wide, Avenida 9 de Julio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is not only a beautiful example of urban design but is also apparently the widest major road on the planet.A picture being worth a 1000 words makes this blog entry 1000 words long.
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November 25, 2008
- The Café Impresso, in El Ateneo Grand Splendid at Avenida Santa Fe 1860 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, immediately fits the bill for the basics of a great café. All is here: a well-appointed wait staff, real ceramic plates, glass glasses, proper napkins, an accommodating attitude, and all the food and drink that would be served in any very good Argentine confitería. Generally these days, few ...
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October 23, 2008
- The kids are dancing tango again in Buenos Aires, fueled by new styles of tango music that are laced with hip-hop elements, jazz riffs, rhythm and blues licks, and suggestions and samples of rock and roll. You still encounter some younger people in this city that feign a lack of interest, who say that tango is the music of their grandparents and parents. That is so, but one of the glories of ...
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October 17, 2008
- Horacio Ferrer and the artistic flowering of Buenos Aires. Terry: There are moments in the history of the arts when a group of artists arrives in some particular place, like Paris in the twenties, for example...Hemingway, Richard Wright, the writers...Horacio: And Picasso and Dali...Terry: To be sure! Here in San Francisco in the fifties with the...Horacio: The Beatniks.Terry: Exactly. And at ...
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October 16, 2008
- Besides being a superb poet and noted figure of the musical stage, Horacio is a renowned educator of tango music and lyrics.Terry: The work you've done with the Academy of the Tango; we'd like to know something of the Academy's history, how it got started and what was its intention.Horacio: I'll tell you. In 1954, many years ago, I was an adolescent, and I founded La Guardia Nueva in Montevideo. ...
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October 15, 2008
- Horacio Ferrer and Astor Piazzolla were close friends and had a remarkable creative collaboration for many years. Horacio: Okay. Shall we talk about Astor Piazzolla?Terry: Yes. When he was a young man, he was in the United States, in New York.Horacio: Yes, he was there a long, long time. We went to New York.Terry: Do you know that in English he had a Lower East Side accent? I heard him speaking ...
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