Terence Clarke On Tango 1: "See what happens"
A portion of an interview with Terence Clarke, from the video TANGO: A ROMANTIC RITUAL, available from Social Dance Cultures (www.socialdancecultures.org)
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I read every word of these stories (Little Bridget And The Flames Of Hell), not through professional obligation but through genuine enjoyment, engagement, admiration of Terence Clarke's mastery of the craft...I was literally moved to tears by some of these stories, transported by all of them into a world of Irish nuns, immigrants, mad poets, white-collar workers, errant priests, lawyers with, of all things, a heart... When I first got into publishing thirty-five years ago, it was with the hope of publishing literature of this integrity, rendered with such skill and bigness of heart.
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—Malcolm Margolin, Heyday Books
About Terence
Mercury House and Ballantine Books published three of my novels, all to high critical praise. My latest novel A Kiss For Señor Guevara was published in July, 2010. A collection of stories titled Little Bridget and The Flames of Hell was published this...
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Pride and Prejudice, Heart of Darkness, Great Expectations, Memory of Fire trilogy, Love In The Time Of Cholera, The Collected Stories of Gabriel García...
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TANGO
Barbara Alexandra Szerlip
Terry,
I think I saw you, of an evening, dancing at the Ferry Building's Farmer's Market. (I also interviewed you once, for SF Magazine - something along the lines of "Terence Clarke Gets His Irish Up").
Your interview makes me somewhat wistful, as I did pursue classes in SF for a while. I have a dance background and have long been intrigued by tango. Unfortunately, what I found was a strange throwback to junior high school -- in that, after the classes, women (at least those who weren't already adapt) sat waiting for someone to ask them to dance. Those who were repeatedly chosen were almost always of the 'bombshell' variety. You can't learn tango without LOTS of practice, and I eventually stopped going. Perhaps the wrong venue, but it was close to home.