SATORI



TANGO

Here's an excerpt from the last chapter of SATORI TANGO...

Benny's suite in the Palazzo Tower of the Rio has been decorated for a grand occasion. Musicians have been flown in from Buenos Aires. All are present. Benny, Moondog, Quantum Coyote, Rosebud Peru, Julio the driver, Zeno Murray, Crysta Bella, The Rev. Dona Juanita Medusa and the professor, Dixie Evans and Charlie, The Buddha impersonator, the Alan Watts impersonator, several Elvis impersonators, Orson Welles, the Client's casino host, a small army of tuxedo clad waiters, showgirls, dealers, Cirque du Soleil performers, celebrities, etc. In short, a vast and strange collection of "Characters".

A female voice with a slight French accent (The Client?) is heard briefly above the buzz of the crowd.

"In certain dances and especially in Tango, the appearance of two dancers is only an illusion - the two are not two, but a sensuous, perpetually moving, changing One - inseparable and outside of time…never stopping…. "

At midnight the orchestra begins a Tango. Penetrating and seductive. The crowd goes silent. All turn in unison - entrained, like a leaderless flock of birds - with one mind. The entire group dances extravagantly, with one motion, in pairs, but all gliding and swaying in such synchrony and rapture that the effect is one of unnatural creepiness as well as utter beauty - simultaneously frightening and exquisite.

This continues until dawn and on into the next day….