3740  "Kiss and Tango", the book

Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:59:46 -0700
From: LOURDES YLAGAN <tanguera1968@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: "Kiss and Tango", the book

Marina Palmers Kiss and Tango embodies the liberation of ones utmost desire to be free. Being able to see the pasture on the other side of the fence and having lived and survived it to tell us what its like. And the pasture is NOT, necessarily greener on the other side, despite the sequined costumes and perfect boleos and giros. I am 10 pages from the end of the book. This book is a comical satire of living life as a tango dancer. She details the chronicles of learning to dance, being mesmerized in the milongas, the pursuit of her objects of desire (of which there were many), and the continual pursuit of her unquenchable appetite for a good tango dance and good sex. So she goes from partner to partner looking for her perfect mate both on and off the dance floor. If only he was this, or he was that, things would be perfect (Ill spare you the detailsgo read the book). What she perhaps failed to acknowledge or realize is that in tango, as it is in life, one must find ones
balance or center. For the same way a tango dancer must find his/her center in this dance, without having to depend on ones partner, she must feel grounded on who she is and what she wants before she goes and find it. As it were, she winds up with the wrong partner time and again. Despite all this, I have to applaud her commitment to the dance as when she fell in line to audition for Forever Tango without her practice partner who committed to her.



To MarinaIf youre reading this, I would have much preferred to have seen you in the final cast of that show as oppose to those whose names carried more weight than the balls of their feet. Tango on.



Lourdes

Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:20:05 +0000
From: Lucia <curvasreales@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: Re: "Kiss and Tango", the book

> --- LOURDES YLAGAN <tanguera1968@YAHOO.COM>
> escribis:
>
> > Marina Palmers Kiss and Tango embodies the
> > liberation of ones utmost desire to be free.
>
> Free like a beast, thinking of euthanasia perhaps?
> For
> she does not extend "her" freedom to the elderly:
>
> "You know how old people go stale?" she lamented in
> a
> passage dated Jan. 27, 1998. "No matter how much
> cologne Armando [an aspiring suitor in his sixties]
> doused himself with . . . it couldn't cover up that
> sickly sweet smell of putrefying flesh." All
> Argentines frequent cafes, she noted in September
> 1999, "even the old, who in other countries have the
> decency to stay out of sight." Elsewhere, she
> describes an elderly female dancer as an "old bag."
> Of
> retired men, "It goes without saying that the very
> idea of them having sex in the first place is
> yucky."
>
> From the book review entitled "Dirty Dancing" in the
> Washington Post:
>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001592.html

>
> > I would have much
> > preferred to have seen you in the final cast of
> that
> > show as oppose to those whose names carried more
> > weight than the balls of their feet. Tango on.
> >
> > Lourdes
>
> Well, "that show" was Tango Argentino. Lourdes would
> have prefered to have it select an indifferent
> dancer
> because she wrote a titillating (I wish it truly
> was..) book on Tango for the North American
> audience...
>
> With a bit of luck, you will see her on the US TV
> interview circuit, TV dance shows and maybe even a
> "Sex and Buenos Aires" TV show.
>
> Abrazos,
>
> Lucia