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Article: Argentine addition: tango students submit to the passion.(Summer Study Guide 2004)
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- Dance Magazine
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- January 1, 2004
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Argentine tango is a dance of the night--and passions that breed in the dark. It's infused with desire and loss, impossible tenderness, insatiable hunger.
So what am I doing at 9:30 in the morning dancing tango on the top floor of the Holiday Inn in Emeryville, California, with sun streaming in windows that overlook San Francisco Bay? And what are all these other people doing-little whirls of couples moving counterclockwise around the room to the time-warp sounds of Osvaldo Pugliese's orchestra?
Welcome to tango camp.
Every July, Nora Dinzelbacher, the diva of tango in the Bay Area, assembles a group of instructors from Argentina for an intense ...