Tango
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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February 22, 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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February 21, 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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February 5, 2009
- As the tango says: Así se baila el tango,sintiendo en la cara,la sangre que subea cada compás,(Thus is tango danced,feeling in the facethe blood that riseswith each rhythm.)I’m involved in two major Argentine tango events in the San Francisco Bay Area on Valentine’s weekend. Please join us. . .¡Milonga de amor! At The Ferry Building (at The Embarcadero and Market Street in San Francisco), ...
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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 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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October 14, 2008
- Horacio Ferrer is to contemporary tango what Ira Gershwin is to Tin Pan Alley - and maybe more.He is a recognized poet, a tango lyricist of formidable talent, and a noted historian — of promethean output — of Argentine tango music and dance. His best-known lyrics are those for "Chiquilín de Bachín," which was composed by Astor Piazzolla. It is an instantly recognizable tango ...
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