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On the subject of the Argentine tango, about which Suzanne Bare, 45, is passionate, she says this: The connection is the most important thing. "The leader interprets the music with his body," she explains with an air of mystery, "while the follower expands on what the leader suggests." She flashes soulful eyes at Lance Bare, 52, a molecular biologist and her husband of less than a year. Is that a blush on his youthful face?
View Larger ImageBefore we get too far down this sultry path, let's untangle this tango - oops, tangle - of connection. The couple met in 2005 at a tango class in Walnut Creek.
Suzanne, a behavioral health educator who also has a private coaching practice, had been widowed in 2000 and was raising her daughter, Lauren, now 10.
Lance, recently separated, was looking to piece together a social life and began taking tango and salsa classes at a nearby arts center. At tango class, he spotted the lithe, experienced Suzanne who sometimes attended classes as a "helper" to the instructor. She always had Lauren in tow.
"We were a package," she explains. "I never wanted to hide that I was a mother."
The two got to know each other over some months, but it was Suzanne who first asked the newbie to dance.
"I thought she was extremely good looking," Lance jokes, "and that my chances with her were poor - especially because I couldn't dance."
After one particular dance, the two decided - with a group of friends - to go for coffee. Oddly, the rest of the group bowed out, though the couple thinks that that was part of a setup. Lance was off to Paris shortly, and though they hadn't kissed yet, upon his return he gave Suzanne a beautiful pashmina scarf. That did it. A blur of tango, dinners and dancing is how Suzanne describes the following year.
By Valentine's Day 2007, Lance had proposed. Suzanne says her father, "an old-fashioned Arabian guy" from Jordan, had been praying for a man for her. "I didn't think he thought I would find anyone," she says, "especially such a nice person, so kind and smart."
The two married last August in Napa, and their first dance was, of course, a tango.
"You can learn so much about someone from the way they dance," she says. Suzanne searched for a long time for a wedding dress that could double as a tango costume.
Lauren is thrilled to have Lance's three boys, now young men, as older stepbrothers, and she herself is a tango fan. Friday dances are a family outing. "It's addictive," says Suzanne, who throws down the last words on the subject. "Balance, expression, rhythm - it gets juicier all the time."
On how tango and their relationship intertwine:
Suzanne: "I have to be on my toes."
Lance: "The problem is when I'm on her toes."
