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Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and L.A. Night - Eve Babitz
BABITZ, Eve. Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and L.A. Night. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Advance Uncorrected Reader’s Proof copy.
201 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, printed label to front wrapper. A very good copy.
Author’s take on a glamorous trip through the dance scene in fashionable Los Angeles. Here is her up-close look at the popular teachers, the best and most beautiful dancers, and the famous people and places she has come to know through dancing. From dancer/choreographer Rene Victor, who has ‘taken ballet and Flamenco into Salsa and filled it with orange flames’; to salsa queen Sandra Bullock; tango champion Robert Duval; to Leonardo DiCaprio who had been known to swing at The Derby.
Eve Babitz (1943-2021), a native Angelino, was one of LA’s ‘IT’ girls of her era, and the ‘louche, wayward, headlong, hidden genius of Los Angeles’ (Lili Anolik, Hollywood’s Eve, 2020). She was the goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High. She became an icon of art and sex when in 1963 she posed naked playing chess with Marcel Duchamp. A remarkable figure in American letters, she is the essential LA writer.