To my dear friends and students, I want to thank you for your support and friendship all these years that I’ve lived outside of my homeland. I left Los Angeles in 2001, and during those 15 years was only able to visit my family and L.A. peeps every year or so. It has been an amazing journey—I found not only love with Ruben Aybar, but a new profession as a teacher of tango, as well as publishing a memoir about those expat years, The Church of Tango. And currently I’ve just finished a prequel memoir, Arabesque: Dancing on the Edge in Los Angeles. Now it is time for me to go home. I leave for L.A. July 1st. Even though it is my choice, my heart is breaking to leave Ruben, my pets and garden, my gorgeous rented apartment in Boedo that has seen so much tango and so many asados and friendly gatherings on its broad, scenic terrace. To leave the life that I’ve built here over 11 years. And now I have to start over. Again. But it is time. Ruben will continue teaching and taxi dancing, and he can be contacted at 155-799-2038. Working with him to share our tango vision with enthusiastic students has been my greatest pleasure here in Argentina. (He doesn’t check his email very often—rubentango@gmail, but contacting him via FB works too.) He is an amazing teacher, and a wonderful, generous, honest person. I’ve met many, many incredible people from all over the world here in our Boedo studio. As Ruben always says, people come to us as students but leave as friends, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to have met hundreds of dancers I otherwise wouldn’t know. And who I hope to see again one day at a milonga in one part of the world or another. I dream to come back to visit Buenos Aires from time to time, but nothing is certain. Thank you, Argentina, for giving me Ruben, the tango, la cultura gauchesca, Gauchito Gil, waterfalls and glaciers, painted deserts, la Pachamama, land of seven lakes, the Delta of Tigre, penguins, and Papa Pancho. And the world of the milonga, unique to Buenos Aires and forever my spiritual “home.” Hasta la proxima…
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:43:47 +0000
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