September 16, 2008
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Zina is one of the very first members of the club being with us since the day one. She has such a bright, wonderful, positive personality keeping the spirit of dancing. She helped dancers, teachers and the development of the community a lot. We are so missing dancing with you, Zina ! Zina is unique. All Zina's family is dancing tango: both of her sons, her daughter-in-law, and her husband, Boris who is the organizer of our club. We are together here. We are dancing in close embrace. It makes such things especially difficult when something happens. But it also gives us support: we are not alone. Zina, you are always with us. In my heart Zina, you have made an imprint and gave my dancing a part of your soul which I will carry to everyone else. -- Igor Polk On the photo: Above, Zina dancing with her husband. Below, Zina dancing with her son.
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In this video you can see Zina dancing with Boris :
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Zina with Luis Bianchi :
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Zina also was a dramatic actor. Here you can see her in the role of Faina Ranevskaya: |
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Zina, Zinochka, Zinulya, Zinka …. -- Larisa |
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I met beautiful Zina at the Starlite Ballroom. She was wonderful to dance Argentine Tango with. Although she was a highly intelligent professional, she danced from a heart-felt depth of feelings, not from the intellect and that made her a treasure for any leader to dance with. She felt light as a feather. |
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There were a lot of people came to the memorial service. The room was filled and even more people came to funerals. Zina and her family have a lot of friends. Few people have that many friends. How passionately people talked about her ! Zina was a loving wife and mother, a great friend. She got involved into people radiating such participation that no one was untouched. They talked about her being a proof that love can change the world. She made bridges between people solving their problems. A day before we all were talking about Zina, where is she, when is she going to come back to us. And now we realize that it will not happen again in our lives. But Zina was so strong and influential that we will carry a piece of her with us. She lives in us and continues her destiny through us. Zina's final passion was for tango dancing. Just at this day I realized that our tango club started essentially as a Zina's family & friends tango club. She discovered it herself and tried to convey us how great tango is to worm up the soul and be together. People at the reception asked me to write about it, that we will continue dancing tango. That is what Zina would want. -- Igor Polk |
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Zina's funeral Took place on Sunday, 9/21/08. 11am -- Memorial Service Sinai Memorial Chapel 1pm -- Burial Ceremony Eternal Home Cemetery 3pm -- Remembrance Reception Shorebreeze Apartments |
Photo 2008 Igor Polk