Camille Cusumano

In these times of economic downturns, the sound waves and bites are all about how bad it is, and how bad it is going to get. My favorite line is “we don’t know” how bad it will get or what is going to happen. Like, what else is new? If you’ve been a writer your whole professional life, number one, you’re always living in economic downturn, number two, you don’t know what’s going to happen. Never do. You learn to live in the present through the sheer joy of writing, of entering “kiros” (Greek for participation in time), never much caring about Kronos (chronological time). I can say the same of dancing tango–and have–and will continue. See post, Tango is the perfect stimulus package.

Following are clips from Tango, an Argentine Love Story’s debut party, October 12, 2008, at the Museo ItaloAmericano. Many thanks to Larry Biggs, Mila Salazar, Lina Khatib, James Stein, and Andre Levitt, my fellow tango dancers who made the event a most artful success. Thanks to all who braved the Blue Angels’ traffic congestion. Video footage is the handiwork of Tom Cusumano (aka my bro):

Friday, November 28 (the day after Thanksgiving)

Upstairs at Lake Merritt Dance Center, 200 Grand Ave, Oakland, California,

Gigi Jensen  will host me and my book, Tango, an Argentine Love Story, at her weekly milonga. Her Tango Fashion Show will highlight affordable tango fashions and promises to be a lot fun.

Here is her milonga schedule—I’ll present my book after the class:

7:30-8:30 pm Tango Basics class w/ Gigi & Warren
8:30-11:30 pm Práctica
$10 for practica price includes class

Emilio Flores will be the DJ — Great music, tasty snacks, free parking in lot, fun crowd!

Tango, an Argentine Love Story is getting a lot of press on TV, radio, Net, podcast:

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 Olivia’s indepth interview of me, Zen of Tango, here.

From a November 9 interview,  A Matter of Taste with David and Rachel Kane, 960AM radio.

And of course, there was my first TV tango-dancing with Dave in Portland on AMNorthwest.

November 8, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

TANGO MAKES SOUND WAVES

SF Bay author Camille Cusumano (Tango, an Argentine Love Story) meets Forever Tango’s Luis Bravo and company this
Saturday, November 8, 10 a.m to 12 p.m. on WEST COAST LIVE, with host Sedge Thomson. Tune in to  91.7 FM (KALW) on your radio dial. Sedge will talk tango with the author and the Broadway smash hit’s creator and of course there will be dancing.

West Coast Live is broadcast from the Port Commission Hearing Room on the second floor of the San Francisco Ferry Building at 1 Ferry Plaza (Embarcadero at the foot of Market Street.