A tango memoir
EMBRACE
Everything can be bought. Except someone truly being there with you.
World launch · December 11, 2026 — Argentina’s National Tango Day · Mariposita de San Telmo, Buenos Aires
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EMBRACE: The Tango Apprentice
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Walter Rivera Santos is a former Combat Medic, author and tango dancer from Puerto Rico. After a life of running every room he walked into, he found in tango people who met him, not his position, and wrote about it in EMBRACE: The Tango Apprentice. Today he leads TangoPulsus, private tango training built around one person.
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EMBRACE World Launch on National Tango Day
December 11, 2026
Mariposita de San Telmo, Buenos Aires
On December 11, Argentina’s National Tango Day — the birthday of Carlos Gardel and Julio De Caro — join author and dancer Walter Rivera Santos at Mariposita de San Telmo for the world launch of EMBRACE: The Tango Apprentice in six languages, with live bandoneón and guitar. Free entry.
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