title: Bare: The Misplaced Art of Grieving and Dancing
author: Sandy Oshiro Rosen
description: Sandy and her musician husband, Russ, live on the west coast of Canada where they have conspired to stir up creative community that is vulnerable, innovative and compassionate. She is a mentor, teacher, communicator and dance studio director who has cared for the bodies and emotional well-being of many individuals. In addition to standard dance classes, her studio offers mentorship for emerging dance professionals as well as Dancing for Your Health and Dancing for Your Healing classes (www.dancebarnstudio.com).
zlib_text: _To my family_
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘The tango is man and woman in search of each other.
  
  
  It is a search for an embrace, a way to be together.’
  
  
  JUAN CARLOS COPES, choreographer and dancer
  
  
  
  
  
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  For eleven years an elderly man with a silver-knobbed cane visited Louise’s
  grave with flowers. He came every Saturday with a plastic bucket, brush,
  cleaning fluids and a fold-up canvas chair. He was always impeccably dressed
  for the occasion. A black blazer, white slacks. A bright red flower in his
  buttonhole drew attention to his snow-white hair.
  
  
  The year before his death it was his habit to visit the _cementerio_ at La
  Chacarita with his ten-year-old granddaughter. While he sat by Louise’s grave
  fanning his face with his fedora the granddaughter would go and stand in line
  with her plastic bucket and the other mourners at the water taps.
  
  
  He had his own car, but for this particular excursion Paul Schmidt favoured
  the bus. The conductor helped him down t