Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story (Portobello Books) (Hardback)
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Short Description for Twelve Minutes of Love After a decade-long love affair with the dance, Kapka uses her personal story to open up the hidden world of tango, with its aficionados and desperados, its endless practice and its fleeting passions
Full description- Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd
- Published: 03 November 2011
- Format: Hardback 324 pages
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- Categories: Dance | Biography: General | Memoirs
- ISBN 13: 9781846272844 ISBN 10: 184627284X
- Sales rank: 177,201
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Full description for Twelve Minutes of Love
To the uninitiated, tango is just a dance, albeit a dance with an exotic and sensuous allure. To the true tanguero, it is something akin to a religion, attracting the lost, the lonely, and the fanatical with its formal rituals, its sense of belonging, and its intense emotions. Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the pulse of tango thruming through her body and the music filling in her head, she's danced through the night, from Auckland to Edinburgh, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, suffering blisters and heart-break, as well as forging lasting friendships and experiencing all-too-brief moments of dance-floor ecstasy. Here Kapka takes us inside the esoteric night-time world of tango, to tell the story of the dance from its afro roots to its sequined apotheosis in 'show tango', exploring its cultural and emotional pull and enticing us to join her at the milonga.
