Kapka Kassabova

“...dancing with someone who is causing you pain is a bit like trying to smile while having a tooth extracted.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“...'Not all dreams get broken. We all need dreams.'...”

— Kapka Kassabova

“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea,…

— Kapka Kassabova

“I managed to convince myself that I’d left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape,…

— Kapka Kassabova

“I left Bulgaria when I was a seventeen-year-old East European, and I am now, by all appearances, a 32-year-old ‘global soul’. But…

— Kapka Kassabova

“Something must be done!’ ‘It’s because you don’t live here,’ Blago snorted. ‘You still believe in justice.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world…

— Kapka Kassabova

“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who…

— Kapka Kassabova

“People die crossing borders, and sometimes just being near them. The lucky ones are reborn on the other side.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“It’s precisely when you have lost your roots that everywhere you go matters hugely.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“It’s funny,’ Rado says, ‘I can only be Bulgarian when I’m in France. Here, I’m semi-French. Everything is funny and bizarre, and…

— Kapka Kassabova

“Traveling around the country where you grew up , lost some of your virginity and a few of your illusions, acquired some…

— Kapka Kassabova

“sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“...Tango is not just a dance. It's our human condition. To everyone who loves tango, it's what art is to the artist.…

— Kapka Kassabova

“But get this: you're free. Freedom is the greatest gift to the artist. Don't waste it. Go to Buenos Aires. Eat some…

— Kapka Kassabova

“communism was in a rush, it had no time for bourgeois things like the past or the environment.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“...'You are like tango music itself, Kapka.' Julio says, catching his breath. 'You're the universal woman- wherever you go, you will always…

— Kapka Kassabova

“What if love is made and nothing else? asked Narcissus, leaning over the green iris of water. Nothing else, cried Echo from…

— Kapka Kassabova

“if the mixing of peoples was the order of empires and the ‘unmixing of peoples’ the order of nation-states, what’s on the…

— Kapka Kassabova

“...tango is art, not sex. Yes, it is art made with your body and someone else's. But not sex.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“...the most beautiful thing about tango is that it doesn't belong to anyone. It doesn't, but we'd like it to. We'd like…

— Kapka Kassabova

“how can a good man be a lawyer in a dictatorship?”

— Kapka Kassabova

“Where do nations begin? In airport lounges, of course. You see them arriving, soul by soul, in pre-activation mode. They step into…

— Kapka Kassabova