Twelve Minutes of Love
Autor Kapka Kassabovaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2012
Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she's danced across the world, from Auckland to Edinburgh, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, putting in hours of practice for fleeting moments of dance-floor ecstasy, suffering blisters and heart-break along the way. Here, in sparkling, spring-heeled prose, Kapka takes us inside the esoteric world of tango to tell the story of the dance, from its Afro roots to its sequined stars and back. Twelve Minutes of Love is a timeless tale of exile and longing, death and desire, love and belonging.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781846272851
ISBN-10: 1846272858
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: ill
Dimensiuni: 119 x 211 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: PORTOBELLO BOOKS
ISBN-10: 1846272858
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: ill
Dimensiuni: 119 x 211 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: PORTOBELLO BOOKS
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Cuprins
Some Tango Terms 1
Prelude to the Cyclical Night 2
TANDA ONE: The Feet
In Search of Authentic Tango
1 Just a Tango 7
2 Barbarous Tango 11
3 This is How You Tango 29
Cortina 59
TANDA TWO: The Heart
In Search of Intimacy
4 Just One Time 63
5 The Day that You Would Love Me 82
6 The Melody of the Heart 109
Cortina 139
TANDA THREE: The Mind
In Search of Home
7 To Dream, and Nothing More 143
8 A Little Piece of the Sky 178
9 Your Diagnosis 196
Cortina 227
TANDA FOUR: The Embrace
In Search of Transcendence
10 Laugh, Laugh, Don’t Cry 231
11 Tell Me What Happened 263
12 Just a Tango 302
Cortina 315
After-Longa 316
Acknowledgements 321
Playlist 323
Prelude to the Cyclical Night 2
TANDA ONE: The Feet
In Search of Authentic Tango
1 Just a Tango 7
2 Barbarous Tango 11
3 This is How You Tango 29
Cortina 59
TANDA TWO: The Heart
In Search of Intimacy
4 Just One Time 63
5 The Day that You Would Love Me 82
6 The Melody of the Heart 109
Cortina 139
TANDA THREE: The Mind
In Search of Home
7 To Dream, and Nothing More 143
8 A Little Piece of the Sky 178
9 Your Diagnosis 196
Cortina 227
TANDA FOUR: The Embrace
In Search of Transcendence
10 Laugh, Laugh, Don’t Cry 231
11 Tell Me What Happened 263
12 Just a Tango 302
Cortina 315
After-Longa 316
Acknowledgements 321
Playlist 323
Recenzii
In prose as elegant and seductive as the tango itself, Kapka Kassabova leads us on a journey over time and across continents, above all a journey of the heart. - Aminatta Forna
This is more than a book about dancing. It is about people, places, movement, love, trouble, a journey. I was gripped... Read it and dance. - Monique Roffey
This mix of travel writing, personal experience and history is something that Kassabova has done before and she's frankly brilliant at it. [This] is sharp, clever and engaging, a wonderful mix of self-deprecating humour and genuine insight. - Independent on Sunday
A mesmeric memoir of love, lust and tango ... Kassabova relishes the painful blisters as much as the seductive bliss. - Marie Claire
Travel writing is dead. Long live great travel writing. Part travelogue, part memoir, this is a sexy step through the myths around tango and its physical, emotional and psychological layers. You will want to learn. – GQ
Kapka Kassabova is consumed by her subject, and her book is all the better for it ... Warm, witty and deftly written, it's an unapologetically personal tale, but in it Kassabova reveals so much more about tango's allure and enigma than any more distanced study might. - **** Time Out
[Kassabova] skilfully weaves her evolution as a dancer around the history and meaning of the dance as well as around her private dramas ... Her narrative, bubbly and brisk as it is, will entertain fellow dancers and fans of tango music and fellow wanderers pursuing similar ends. – TLS
This is a strangely moving book, Kassabova's sensibility running throughout the pages like a melancholy tango melody. The author is intelligent, sensitive and romantic, and colours the content with her own elegiac perspective. Nothing is under- or over-stated... Kassabova is expert at interspersing history with her personal life, the movement like the intricate dance steps of the tango. One seems to reinforce and shed light on the other [and] she has a perfect sense of timing. But above all this book is... an entertaining hymn to her individual addiction: to tango and to romantic love. - Scottish Review of Books
Kassabova wears her obvious intellect lightly and her writing style is akin to sitting across a wine glass from your most entertaining friend ... I reach the last page with a pang of sadness as I realise that, while I have sated my curiosity about tango, I'll miss this lively voice. – Herald
The depictions of place and character are sumptuous and intense, and overall Twelve Minutes of Love manages to be hilarious and moving, poignant and occasionally sublime. - Big Issue
This is a very good book indeed... She never overburdens her narrative and yet gives us a clear account of the history of tango and her own, often tear-filled, emotional journey on and off the dance floor. Kassabova gets the drug-like quality of tango across, with ferocious vividness... I find myself liking [her] a lot. – Independent
In utterly fluid prose, Kassabova brings new heights of perception to the twists and twines of tango. A very, very fine book. - Mavis Cheek
Kassabova's prose is steeped in the exquisite melancholy the Latin Americans call duende. - Guardian
This is more than a book about dancing. It is about people, places, movement, love, trouble, a journey. I was gripped... Read it and dance. - Monique Roffey
This mix of travel writing, personal experience and history is something that Kassabova has done before and she's frankly brilliant at it. [This] is sharp, clever and engaging, a wonderful mix of self-deprecating humour and genuine insight. - Independent on Sunday
A mesmeric memoir of love, lust and tango ... Kassabova relishes the painful blisters as much as the seductive bliss. - Marie Claire
Travel writing is dead. Long live great travel writing. Part travelogue, part memoir, this is a sexy step through the myths around tango and its physical, emotional and psychological layers. You will want to learn. – GQ
Kapka Kassabova is consumed by her subject, and her book is all the better for it ... Warm, witty and deftly written, it's an unapologetically personal tale, but in it Kassabova reveals so much more about tango's allure and enigma than any more distanced study might. - **** Time Out
[Kassabova] skilfully weaves her evolution as a dancer around the history and meaning of the dance as well as around her private dramas ... Her narrative, bubbly and brisk as it is, will entertain fellow dancers and fans of tango music and fellow wanderers pursuing similar ends. – TLS
This is a strangely moving book, Kassabova's sensibility running throughout the pages like a melancholy tango melody. The author is intelligent, sensitive and romantic, and colours the content with her own elegiac perspective. Nothing is under- or over-stated... Kassabova is expert at interspersing history with her personal life, the movement like the intricate dance steps of the tango. One seems to reinforce and shed light on the other [and] she has a perfect sense of timing. But above all this book is... an entertaining hymn to her individual addiction: to tango and to romantic love. - Scottish Review of Books
Kassabova wears her obvious intellect lightly and her writing style is akin to sitting across a wine glass from your most entertaining friend ... I reach the last page with a pang of sadness as I realise that, while I have sated my curiosity about tango, I'll miss this lively voice. – Herald
The depictions of place and character are sumptuous and intense, and overall Twelve Minutes of Love manages to be hilarious and moving, poignant and occasionally sublime. - Big Issue
This is a very good book indeed... She never overburdens her narrative and yet gives us a clear account of the history of tango and her own, often tear-filled, emotional journey on and off the dance floor. Kassabova gets the drug-like quality of tango across, with ferocious vividness... I find myself liking [her] a lot. – Independent
In utterly fluid prose, Kassabova brings new heights of perception to the twists and twines of tango. A very, very fine book. - Mavis Cheek
Kassabova's prose is steeped in the exquisite melancholy the Latin Americans call duende. - Guardian
In prose as elegant and seductive as the tango itself, Kapka Kassabova leads us on a journey over time and across continents, above all a journey of the heart. - Aminatta Forna This is more than a book about dancing. It is about people, places, movement, love, trouble, a journey. I was gripped... Read it and dance. - Monique Roffey This mix of travel writing, personal experience and history is something that Kassabova has done before and she's frankly brilliant at it. [This] is sharp, clever and engaging, a wonderful mix of self-deprecating humour and genuine insight. - "Independent o"n Sunday A mesmeric memoir of love, lust and tango ... Kassabova relishes the painful blisters as much as the seductive bliss. - M"arie Claire" Travel writing is dead. Long live great travel writing. Part travelogue, part memoir, this is a sexy step through the myths around tango and its physical, emotional and psychological layers. You will want to learn. - "GQ" Kapka Kassabova is consumed by her subject, and her book is all the better for it ... Warm, witty and deftly written, it's an unapologetically personal tale, but in it Kassabova reveals so much more about tango's allure and enigma than any more distanced study might. - **** "Time Out" [Kassabova] skilfully weaves her evolution as a dancer around the history and meaning of the dance as well as around her private dramas ... Her narrative, bubbly and brisk as it is, will entertain fellow dancers and fans of tango music and fellow wanderers pursuing similar ends. - "TLS" This is a strangely moving book, Kassabova's sensibility running throughout the pages like a melancholy tango melody. The author is intelligent, sensitive and romantic, and colours the content with her own elegiac perspective. Nothing is under- or over-stated... Kassabova is expert at interspersing history with her personal life, the movement like the intricate dance steps of the tango. One seems to reinforce and shed light on the other [a
Notă biografică
KAPKA KASSABOVA was born in Bulgaria in 1973 and now lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of two poetry collections, two travel guides, numerous travel essays, the novel Villa Pacifica (2011) and the acclaimed memoir Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (2008). She has written for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Vogue, and Granta.com. www.twelveminutesoflove.com
Extras
All Latin American dance, and all couple dance around the world
and through the ages, celebrates happiness through the human body.
Couple dancing is joyful, relaxed, extroverted, uncomplicated and
upbeat. Moving to it makes you laugh and forget your troubles.
Not so with the tango. The tango is all about your troubles. It’s
where you go to process your troubles. Tango is one big trouble with
a twenty-four-hour soundtrack. Tango reminds you that if you don’t
currently have troubles of a romantic, existential, financial or any other
kind – well, sooner or later, you will. Believe me, you will. The good
news is, tango makes trouble exciting. You want to be part of the
action, no matter how troubled.
What is tango like?
Tango is introverted, brooding, physically controlled, mentally
involved, musically complex and emotionally dark. It does for you and
to you a number of things that pretty much cover the entire human
experience. Here are a few.
It sings of the passing of time and the wreckage it leaves in its wake.
It speaks of home, heartbreak, the city, the drunken night, and your
mother.
It ruminates on the catastrophes of yesterday and anticipates the
disasters of tomorrow.
It sums up, more concisely than any epic poem or philosophical
tract, the mystery of passionate love.
Is there happy love in tango music? Yes – the one you had in the
past. OK, I exaggerate, but not much.
It breeds fever in your feet, longing in your heart, cities in
your mind and a place in your soul that you can call home, if all
else fails. Which, sooner or later, it does. Because tango is, above
all, realistic.
It converts outrage into music, in the words of the great
Argentinian writer Borges.
It is a sad thought that can be danced, in the famous words of
Argentine poet Discépolo.
It is the vertical expression of horizontal desire, in the even more
famous words of an unknown dancer.
Tango is also, let’s cut to the chase here, the copulation of sex and
death, which is why it casts an ecstatic spell over us. It hypnotizes us
and then swallows us whole, like a boa with rabbits.
People disappear into tango for years, lifetimes. It happened to me,
but I have now returned to civilian life to tell the tale.
and through the ages, celebrates happiness through the human body.
Couple dancing is joyful, relaxed, extroverted, uncomplicated and
upbeat. Moving to it makes you laugh and forget your troubles.
Not so with the tango. The tango is all about your troubles. It’s
where you go to process your troubles. Tango is one big trouble with
a twenty-four-hour soundtrack. Tango reminds you that if you don’t
currently have troubles of a romantic, existential, financial or any other
kind – well, sooner or later, you will. Believe me, you will. The good
news is, tango makes trouble exciting. You want to be part of the
action, no matter how troubled.
What is tango like?
Tango is introverted, brooding, physically controlled, mentally
involved, musically complex and emotionally dark. It does for you and
to you a number of things that pretty much cover the entire human
experience. Here are a few.
It sings of the passing of time and the wreckage it leaves in its wake.
It speaks of home, heartbreak, the city, the drunken night, and your
mother.
It ruminates on the catastrophes of yesterday and anticipates the
disasters of tomorrow.
It sums up, more concisely than any epic poem or philosophical
tract, the mystery of passionate love.
Is there happy love in tango music? Yes – the one you had in the
past. OK, I exaggerate, but not much.
It breeds fever in your feet, longing in your heart, cities in
your mind and a place in your soul that you can call home, if all
else fails. Which, sooner or later, it does. Because tango is, above
all, realistic.
It converts outrage into music, in the words of the great
Argentinian writer Borges.
It is a sad thought that can be danced, in the famous words of
Argentine poet Discépolo.
It is the vertical expression of horizontal desire, in the even more
famous words of an unknown dancer.
Tango is also, let’s cut to the chase here, the copulation of sex and
death, which is why it casts an ecstatic spell over us. It hypnotizes us
and then swallows us whole, like a boa with rabbits.
People disappear into tango for years, lifetimes. It happened to me,
but I have now returned to civilian life to tell the tale.
Descriere
Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she's danced across the world, from Auckland to Edinburgh, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, putting in hours of practice for fleeting moments of dance-floor ecstasy, suffering blisters and heart-break along the way. Here, in sparkling, spring-heeled prose, Kapka takes us inside the esoteric world of tango to tell the story of the dance, from its Afro roots to its sequined stars and back. Twelve Minutes of Love is a timeless tale of exile and longing, death and desire, love and belonging.