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Saturday Nights at Lafayette Grill: Argentine Tango in New York City... brings the reader into the center of a worldwide cultural craze and passion, as it has developed and thrived in New York City since 1985, when the Broadway show Tango Argentino first came to town, followed by Forever Tango. With a special dedication of the book and title to the Argentine tango cultural center formerly housed within a Greek restaurant, named Lafayette Grill, this book offers 17 interviews with top NYC Argentine tango professionals (all of whom frequented Lafayette Grill), who each speak of their Argentine tango dance and tango teaching philosophies; of their first interest in Argentine tango, and of their own development within the dance over time. Along with these psychological interviews, this book offers readers 19 anonymous essays, written by Argentine tango dancers, who contribute the main fabric of the social milieu of Argentine tango in NY City. These essays penetrate the internal life of the Argentine tango dancer, and therefore have a psychological focus. These essays also display for the reader the colorful and rich ambience of the Argentine tango world in NY City as a social and cultural environment.

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The Lafayette Grill was one of those strange, magical places that only happen in New York City. Dancing there took us to a timeless place; a mix of future and past, and a bittersweet feeling that it would not, could not, last. And that is the tango feeling. And we all felt lucky to be there, to feel it together. Dancing and dancing until the bitter end. Such a place deserves a great testament. And I thank my friend Susan Kavaler-Adler for writing it.- Jack Hanley, Argentine tango instructor and event organizer, NYC Saturday Nights at Lafayette Grill offers a memorable and historic peek through the late night neon sign reflected window of an important contributor to New York City's tango culture. - Batt Johnson, Argentine tango dancer/author/professor, NYC Through frequent visits to New York, I got to know Lafayette Grill, a place where everybody knows your cabeceo. Susan shared with me the stories as they danced off her talented fi ngers. I eagerly awaited a next chapter - be it an interview with a legendary tanguero, or the drama that made Lafayette Grill sizzle. Now it's all collected in this historical volume, which talks to one's heart. - Carl Bogenholm, tanguero from Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler practices clinical psychology and psychoanalysis for the last four decades, but Argentine tango became the way of life for her and her husband Saul for two decades now. Lafayette Grill was their second home. For more information about Dr. Kavaler-Adler's practice, writings, interviews, videos - visit www.kavaleradler.com

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