Bay Area Argentine Tango Association

A TANGOED WEB OF WORDS: A Workshop of Improvisation & Total Presence in Writing & Dance

Our theme of tango is a dance of improvisation, where there is a leader and follower, who meet and pool their identities for the greater good of a dance. We’ll have Camille & Tomaso specific exercises for the writing - how the seemingly separate roles of “leader” (or male impetus) and follower (or female receiver) affect one’s writing. We all have both the male and female energy to greater or lesser degrees. When writing these two energies also improvise and dance together.

Camille will demonstrate how tango is a simple dance in many ways — all its patterns emanate from infinite variations of just six basic steps. She will also provide handouts on tango terms and a list of dance teachers around the Bay Area if students decide to develop their tangoed ways even more.

July Saturday 19 & Sunday 20. 10 AM - 4 PM. $145
(includes a hot Latin lunch both days)
For updates see: http://www.camillecusumano.com/articles/tangoed-web-of-words-workshop/

Held at Lisa’s Dance Weaver studio in Mill Valley, California. Lisa is a writer, teacher, editor, and dancer who has been offering private and group classes for many years.

Lisa Alpine
Lisa Alpine
Camille is author of the upcoming Seal Press book, TANGO: an Argentine Love Story, “a spicy travel memoir of a woman who loved, lost, got mad—and decided to dance.” She will be teaching writing exercise with Lisa and tango steps with one of her dance partners, Tomaso. Tango, like Zen/or any meditation, fast-tracks one to a sacred place of bliss, harmony, rapture. In tango, one must be totally present, and yet “not think.” In writing one must be totally present, and honest - and allow the deeper voices to guide. The dancer quiets her mind; the writer quiets the chatterbox narrator and lets the deeper self emerge and write. We’ll weave back and forth between the dancing and writing.

For more info:

Lisa: cell: 541 941 4759

Camille: email ocaramia@earthlink.net

For more on Lisa’s writing and dance workshops, visit: http://lisaalpine.com (writing workshops)
http://danceweaver.com (dance workshops)