Camille Cusumano

Come Eat, Dance, Play!

Sunday, November 9, 5:15 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Olivia and Jonathan’s weekly milonga:

The Belrose Theater
1415 Fifth Avenue
San Rafael, CA 94901

The well-kept secret is in an atmospheric church-converted-to-theater. (A former house-of-god-turned-theater (what better feng shui for dancing!)The floor is smooth, so is the music. So are the dancers.

I’ll read from and talk about my new book, Tango, an Argentine Love Story (Seal Press), which will be for sale there. I won’t talk long though, because there will be some serious dancers here, whose feet will be itching.

Elliott Bay Book Company is proud to host

A reading from:

Tango, an Argentine Love Story

by Camille Cusumano.

Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 2 pm to 3:30 p.m.

• Everything you ever wanted to know about tango

• Watch live dancing demo by author and TBA partner.

•Be prepared–a spontaneous milonga may erupt; have shoes at hand/foot.

• A mini-Tango Fest will be occurring in nearby Port Townsend, January 17 to 18, so this promises to be a warm winter weekend.

Elliott Bay Book Company

Sunday, October 26, 7 p.m. til 8 p.m.,

I’ll be presenting my book, Tango, an Argentine Love Story, at

Caffe Trieste, on Market Street near Gough.

This is Sonja Riket’s weekly milonga. She’ll teach a beginner class from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. I’ll chat and read til 8 p.m. and then you can dance until?

Come join the stimulating dialogue on tango, the dance that leads to inner and outer peace.

Below, reading at the Trieste, Sonia watching at left

October 16, 2008 - Teaching Dave to Tango

I had my first television appearance for Tango, an Argentine Love Story this morning on AM

Look for in bookstores in October

Northwest in Portland (KATU/ABC), channel 2 there. It was a lot of fun. Dave Anderson is a stand-up comedian, so it was all very lighthearted. I gave him an on-the-spot lesson . . . . But I was so lucky to have Jay Rabe, local tanguero, tango teacher, and massage therapist, accompany me so that the audience could see what “real” tango looks like. Have a look for yourself.

These gallery images are of a May 2003 exhibition held at New Orleans’s highly revered Heriard-Cimino Gallery, a noteworthy survivor of Hurricane Katrina. The works belong to artists Rosario Marquardt and Roberto Behar. Please visit the Heriard-Cimino Gallery site for more details on these and many highly acclaimed artists.

From the Gallery’s Web site:

Photos on this page are mine. All three are of the SF Zen Center. Do you know what you’re seeing in the stained glass left? The hands below left are a facsimile of Suzuki Roshi’s; the ones on the right are Katagiri Roshi’s. The hands are set in the swinging doors to and from the SF Zen Center’s kitchen.

The New York Times (10/10/08) has a great piece (peace?) on Buddhism in San Francisco, my home town. Yes, I grew up in New Jersey, moved to San Fran in 1973, and grew up (again), in San Francisco.