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A TANGO WAY OF BEING ― ALBERTO PODESTÁ
“I have missed this man’s protective quality, his sensitivity, his ageless sensuality, his 'kissability,' his tango way of life always making time for another cafecito. He stands for what tango poetry means to me: passion, conversation, intimacy, openness, candor. He also stands for what Buenos Aires means to me – the warmth, the touching, the readiness to make time for meeting new friends or strangers, the salt and pepper of a bit of mischief.”
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Not only do we dance to the music, but also to the passionate cosmology embedded in music and song. We dance to a way of being that endorses human values over material pursuits, subjective freedom over conformity, intense attachments over aesthetic distance—an internal orientation to life, rather than an external one. The people who created and nourished our music, dance and song infused these values in the tango.
Podestá is a living monument to this way of being. In 2006, after returning to the States, I wrote:
Our bohemian souls move to our longings for the loves we have lost, our longings for sweet old times and places. We dance to our pains and sorrows, to the irrationality of life, to our will to overcome. For three minutes, in the warmth and comfort of the embrace, we feel reassured that we can live fully from the heart, without fearing any abandonment. And when we are lucky, we do all this to the sound of...
“Cantaaaaaaaaar...”
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©2009 Beatriz Dujovne.
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A TANGO WAY OF BEING ― ALBERT PODESTÁ
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published by TL&N with author’s permission. Dujovne may be contacted at bedujovne@aol.com
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