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		<title>Beginner&#8217;s Mind Tango, Every Friday!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ February 3, 2012 7:00 pm to February 3, 2013 9:00 pm. ] In the mind of beginners there are many possibilities, in the mind of experts, few. This is truly Tango Mind, Beginner's Mind - for mind, body, soul.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/events/beginners-mind-tango-every-friday/</link>
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		<title>Congreso Internacional de Tango Terapia, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tango Therapy
Following are notes from:
Second International Congreso de Tangoterapia, 
Mendoza, Argentina, Oct 28 thru November 1, 2009
• Tango is unique in its use of silence and pauses.
-   vrcomasco@ciudad.com.ar
Dr. Comasco is a cardiologist who  heads the research  for the use of tango dancing in the prevention and  rehabilitation of  heart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/blog/congreso-internacional-de-tango-terapia-2009/</link>
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		<title>La Milonguita</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At La Pista, we offer beginners this special "milonga with training wheels."
Our beginning tango classes at La Pista: We specialize in teaching beginners, including those who have never danced at all.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/blog/la-milonguita/</link>
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		<title>Quantum Tango = D.A.N.C.E.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If tango is a compound composed of two molecules, say male and female, of equal and opposite attraction, its atomic particles might be these body mechanics: Spirals, Weight changes,  Pivots. Combined in numerous, perhaps infinite configurations. When energy in the form of motion and (body) heat is applied to the the "compound" the result is a state called D.A.N.C.E. --- Dynamic Association with New Consciousness Elevated.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/blog/quantum-tango-d-a-n-c-e/</link>
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		<title>Argentine Tango at La Pista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since October, 2011, I&#8217;ve been teaching tango at La Pista dance studio in San Francisco. I teach on Wednesdays with Tom Lewis, the owner and architect of this amazing salon. Mila Salazar, the beautiful dancer seen en apilado with Jesse, below, had been teaching with Tom but she is now gearing up to start a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/blog/argentine-tango-at-la-pista/</link>
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		<title>Beginner&#8217;s Mind Tango</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We focus on beginners to tango and to aspiring tangueros who have never danced. All our classes start with exercises to help you keep all-important technique in mind as you execute steps. Tango technique can be summed up in three important body mechanics: spirals, weight change (or transference of weight around your axis), and pivots]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/blog/beginners-mind-tango/</link>
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		<title>Writing is writing, fiction or non</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all weavers of our destiny. We are all reading our life as its plot, theme, and larger story unfolds before us. Or, we might say, taking in the woof and warp of the tapestry as it falls into place. Some of us are just more aware of the loom and the materials at hand.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/writingblog/writing-is-writing-fiction-or-non/</link>
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		<title>Writing As Refuge &#8211; workshop overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3. Process from the inside out: Brief chat on blocks &#038; obstacles (acute &#038; chronic) to writing process, real &#038; perceived (or imagined). I’ll share a bit on my work to break through (using meditation, art therapy) and point to Tolstoy, Hemingway, Woolf, Styron, and other luminaries who all had it. Can you name writing’s Public Enemy No. 1? 4. From the outside in: We’ll read a couple of short pieces, one on the magic &#038; mystique of writing (how it lets our hidden self/material float to the surface); and a second short essay that exemplifies how the deeply personal telegraphs or unpacks the universal. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/writingblog/writing-as-refuge-workshop-overview/</link>
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		<title>How is writing like drawing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing is drawing that's been untied and retied. But he likes it as Drawing is writing that's been untied and retied.I like both. Food for thought.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/writingblog/how-is-writing-like-drawing/</link>
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		<title>Tango is like a pulsar, like Venus, like Earth . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[pulsars are stars that are wearing down, falling apart like worn out humans. Pulsars are "the remnants of once-mighty stars that emit beams of energy like cosmic lighthouses" and they are born when the core of a massive star stops producing energy. However, says StarDate, f they partner up with another pulsar they regain energy and get strong again. Just like in tango: ". . .  if they have a companion star, they can spin up again by stealing some of its gas — a process that can make the pulsar spin hundreds of times a second."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/uncategorized/tango-is-like-a-pulsar/</link>
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		<title>Kuan Yin&#8217;s Prayer for the Abuser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read at SF Zen Center by Jana Drakka, Saturday Sangha lecture, Jan 7, 2012
Kuan Yin&#8217;s Prayer for the Abuser
To those who withhold refuge,
I cradle you in safety at the core of my Being.
To those that cause a child to cry out,
I grant you the freedom to express your own choked agony.
To those that inflict terror,
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/uncategorized/kuan-yins-prayer-for-the-abuser/</link>
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		<title>Tango in Nairobi, Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 an engineering capacity for the U.N. also. (There are some 25,000 expats in Kenya.) Mario found that only ersatz tango---the ballroom stuff of stiff frame, bodies held apart, making like a tulip. So he began to teach the real thing, Argentine tango and now he has a good following. I was received with open arms and close embrace.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/articles/tango-in-nairobi-africa/</link>
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		<title>When is tango like a horse?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My favorite radio show, WAIT, WAIT DON'T TELL ME had a guest on who said, "You have to have strong legs, a good back, and stamina, but it's all in the technique." He could have been talking about tango. But he was a famous horse jockey.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/blog/when-is-tango-like-a-horse/</link>
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		<title>Eat, Dance, Love &#8211; Buenos Aires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MY friend Patricia and I were singing shamelessly at the top of our lungs, waving our arms to suitably dramatize the already dramatic lyrics. We sat in the front row of the tango show at the Dandi Royal in Buenos Aires. We had behaved demurely as we made our way through the cobbled streets in a barrio steeped in the lingering touches of a long-ago bourgeoisie—courtyards and art nouveau refinements on Spanish Colonial buildings. But seated in an elegant dance salon, we morphed into schoolgirl groupies]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/articles/eat-dance-love-buenos-aires/</link>
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		<title>Writing Workshop 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See more details under Events, to the right:

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		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/writingblog/writing-workshop-2012/</link>
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		<title>Tango on Virgin Redwood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the eight years of my tango addiction, I have tangoed on many types of floors and surfaces, indoors and outdoors, from Paris to Prague, New York to San Francisco, Buenos Aires to Montevideo. But I have never danced on virgin redwood. Such was the case this past weekend at the lovely 186-year-old Weller House Inn in Fort Bragg (Mendocino), California. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/recent-travels/tango-on-virgin-floor/</link>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Intensive Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A full day (8 hours) of writing instruction in a very small group (limited to six participants).
You'll learn everything from unlocking the writer within, the six key elements of winning creative non-fiction (or personal essays)to understanding the all-important narrative arc, how to shape it, how to cultivate your voice (or voices!) and the delicate art of self-editing. You will write, write, write, and leave inspired.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/writingblog/writers-intensive-workshop/</link>
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		<title>Writing Intensive Workshop, Beginners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ January 22, 2012; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] A full day (8 hours) of writing instruction in a very small group (limited to six participants).
You'll learn everything from unlocking the writer within, the six key elements of winning creative non-fiction (or personal essays)to understanding the all-important narrative arc, how to shape it, how to cultivate your voice (or voices!) and the delicate art of self-editing. You will write, write, write, and leave inspired.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/events/writing-intensive-workshop-beginners/</link>
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		<title>For the Love of Tango 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why I packed up my dancing shoes and headed to Buenos Aires
Story by Camille Cusumano]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/uncategorized/for-the-love-of-tango-2010-2/</link>
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		<title>Francis Ford Coppola on Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coppola says, "I'm convinced there is a hormone in the blood of young writers that makes them hate their own writing."
The one thing all of my students needed, no matter how skilled they were, was encouragement to keep on with their writing. Having come through the mill of self-doubt, self-criticism, and other self-destructive resistance, I knew how to give the honest support they needed. Writing can be lonely. It can be frightening. In fact, it brings up the whole prism of emotions. But there is nothing like the satisfaction of pulling out the story we know is in us. It is no less art, no less grand and magnificent than Michelangelo's pulling his David from the block of cararra marble.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/writingblog/francis-ford-coppola-on-writing/</link>
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		<title>Truths, Half-Truths, &amp; Truths-and-a-Halfs Writing Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ January 29, 2012; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] A writer of integrity never wants to have the footnote after her/his name that James Frey, who "fictionalized" his memoir, will forever have. The bald-faced lies may have earned him some dough, but you don't want a liar's fame. In the long run it won't serve him.

However, there are much less egregious examples of bending, re-focusing, refracting, embroidering the truth. Is there ever a place for it in creative non-fiction? A number of respectable writers have said there is . . . ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/events/2778/</link>
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		<title>Your Passion is Your Prose Writing Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ January 29, 2012; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] As journalists we’re trained to be detached and objective in our reporting. However, there [Virginia Woolf] are many markets and outlets for the writer who can report on a topic objectively AND with passion. I jump-started a successful food-writing career (books and feature articles) after publishing one article in a free monthly pub. I built a successful travel writing career after publishing a story on a gourmet bike tour in France in a monthly newsletter. Eight years ago, I was bitten by the tango bug and . . . ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/events/your-passion-is-your-prose-writing-workshop/</link>
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		<title>Writing as Refuge Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ January 29, 2012; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Anyone who writes experiences how it taps a different brain from the everyday one. Invariably, the writing space, entered as in meditation, allows loss and submerged pain to float to surface. Writers often face these feelings, along with the joyful ones, as signage to meaningful, redemptive stories, taking refuge in the practice. Consider this daylong workshop, a safe haven for personal writing—about loss or gain. We will write, chat, and work on crafting your precious material, with occasional personalized “soft” critiques. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/events/writing-as-refuge-workshop/</link>
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		<title>Death Valley—Hike or Die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mojave is the most beautiful of deserts on earth, IMHO. Every year,  bro Chuck and I penetrate its wilderness and wonders. This year we hit  some weather. The canyons, wildflowers, light, and critters went on with  their clockwork.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/recent-travels/death-valley%e2%80%94hike-or-die/</link>
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		<title>Trick &amp; Treat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You never know who you will run into in New Jersey. That's Dancin' Will with me. When we met on a transatlantic cruise from New York to Lisbon in 1998 I had no idea we both had Jersey Shore connections. You'll get my drift. Aka Bill Rodgers, Will was a social host on that cruise and I was on a assignment for VIA Magazine. So I stepped all over his toes. He still remembers it. Buddy Morrow (then 80 years old then) and the Tommy Dorsey Big Band played on the high seas for us.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/recent-travels/trick-treat/</link>
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		<title>Captive Backpacker Suffers Helsinki Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was taken prisoner for six nights and seven days by a Sierra Club Local from southern California. I am now suffering from Helsinki Syndrome. I fell in love with my captors.

They marched me up tall mountains, some more than 11,000 feet above sea level. They led me into an isolated northeast corner of Yosemite National Park. They did not need to blindfold me for the sun was blinding at those dizzying heights. My vision was filled with blue sky so deep it had the loft of velvet. Scintillating, light-reflecting lakes with diamonds bouncing off the surface finished (Finnish-ed )the job. For I was a captive audience. They didn’t need to lure me by appealing to other senses, say, like filling the air with a fragrance so divine – of pine and vanilla of wood baking in sun. But they did.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/recent-travels/captive-backpacker-suffers-helsinki-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>Tango Brujo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A spell comes over me as soon as I step into the warm envelope of tango’s embrace. No matter who my partner, no matter how skillful he is. I learned early on that tango is a language that defies our limited speech. Everyone who attempts tango eventually wanders through this portal into Big Space of Limitless Expression. Therein, each dancer finds her/his secret. This is what I mean by tango brujo. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/blog/tango-brujo/</link>
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		<title>My Tango Teaching Style: Street Tango</title>
		<description><![CDATA[" . . . And tango was born anew in my body each time with each partner. It was exhilarating to just let it happen, not knowing, not worrying, each time I entered the dance. And becoming so eager to dance with every man sitting on the men’s side of the dance hall. My mind was torn down. My whole body was shaped and re-formed by this experience."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/blog/my-tango-teaching-style-street-tango/</link>
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		<title>A Lesson in Botanicals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting long hours in North Beach’s smoky cafes to philosophize with the poets had primed me to filter out the aesthetic merits of Pennsylvania Dutch country. Sleepy towns with biblical names, the need to plan ahead if I wanted wine on Sundays, and the janitor who asked me if he could “outten the lights” only fed my sense of alienation from the pulse of true art.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/essays/a-lesson-in-botanicals/</link>
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		<title>The Magic of Tango</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tango is like no other partner dance for many reasons, two of which are its ready punctuation by silence and pauses. So much happens in the stillness, that the movement becomes a segue to the next silent pause with our partners. Tango is a dance done with with no words but full of dialogue and conversation between two bodies, mainly the torsos, but also wherever there is contact—between the palms, arms, backs, face, head. It is rich. It can be dense as a chocolate truffle and light as puff pastry. It can be ground deeply into the earth and so airy it's not there. Tango is creative conflict with peaceful resolution—or revolutions. It channels the most naked meaning of the human condition—the urge to connect and be intimate with ourselves and other—like no other dance on this planet.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.camillecusumano.com/recent-travels/the-magic-of-tango/</link>
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