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Most important, root pages

• Home Page  - an eclectic and messy, like the tango world. A page where I keep everything which does not fit anywhere else;
• Best San Francisco Tango Clubs and Milongas - yep!
• Complete San Francisco Directory of Tango Web-Sites - the place where I and you can find everything about tango here. If you are not on the Net ( and in this list ), you probably do not exist!
• Igor Polk's Weblog latest  | 2005-2006 | 2003-2005 - the blog contains a lot of small tango articles, stories, thoughts, ideas, gossips, and anecdotes which have not found their place on separate pages;
• Links to Interesting Tango Videos - with my comments;
• Pictures and Photos of Igor's Wonderful Tango Dance Partners - I have very few photos of myself. I guess that is true for every photographer :). This is dedicated to most beautiful women in the World - my tango partners!
• Make a Comment About Tango - let us get in a virtual touch: e-mail me, or live your entry in my Google blog.
• Tango-L Quotations - I like Tango-L list where dancers share their thoughts and experience and participate in sometimes heated discussions. Here are the places which have cought my eye. You might find them interesting too.

Tango Technique

• Looking in the Mirror - Physical basis of tango and pleasure in dancing;
• Relaxation and Tension In Beginners and Experienced Dancers - a discussion;
• 3 Levels of Dancing - Going Beyond Lead and Follow;
• What is Dancing;
• Choreography vs. Improvisation in Tango;
• What is choreography;
• 12 Ways to make an Ocho Pivot and more;
• Tango as Art;
• How to Make Milonga Groovy;
• Progressing Around the Dance Floor - Line of Dance - Dancing on the edge, bushing wide and wild dancers, why to progress, and that that we are a collective of dancers;
• Lead in Open Embrace;
• Tango and Flamenco;
• Tango Conversations - funny dialogs impersonating tango lead and follow as action and reaction;
• 2 Very Powerful Methods of Improvisation;
• Musicality in Tango Dance;
• Which San Francisco Tango Teacher is Better;
• How to be a Good Tango Student to get most out of Lessons;
• Why It Is Wrong to Look at Your Partner's Chest;
• Strong Lead in Tango;

• Tango Etiquette, a practical advice, by Igor Polk;
• Milonga Etiquette, by Andrew Allison;

 

Tango Styles

• 11 Argentine Tango Styles;
• Perfect Apilado Position;
• A way to dance Apilado;
• Six Close Embrace Styles;
• Quebradas and Cortes, by Ruddy Zelaya;
• The difference between Nuevo Tango and Neo Tango;
• Tango Liso;
• Tango Nuevo and Argentine Tango. What is the Difference;
• Definition of Social Dancing;
• What is Tango Orillero;

Tango People

• Eva Lucero and Patricio Touceda;
• Gloria and Eduardo Arquimbau;
• Tango in 1914 and before in America;
• Paulo Araujo;
• In memories of Orlando Paiva, by Laura;
• Neo, Milonguero, and Salon Tango sub-Communities;
• Glover Gill played piano tango;
• Susana Tango Pial - a movie about real tango and real milonga Buenos Aires way;
• Oldest Tango Festival, by Randy in Miami;
• Cabaceo and Tango Friends;
• Flaming women at classes - encouragement for a beginner dancer;

Tango Music

• Most important Tango Orchestras - best tango music - all you need to know to start assembling a tango music collection.
• What is Music;
• How to play tango music for dancers, by Bob Barnes;
• What Tango Music is Better;

Poetry

• The rules of addiction, Homesick, To a Lover, by Astrid;
• Tango's Mask, by Joy Choate;
  

Tango Events

• "A Tango Trilogy" in San Francisco, 2008;
• Denver Labor Day Tango Fest 2007, just some photos;
• "Leading Ladies of Tango" performance in Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, December 2006;
• San Francisco Tango Orchestra at El Valenciano, July 2006;
• Denver Tango Memorial Day 2006, just some photos;
• Portland Tango Fest 2005;
• Tango Festival List;
• Portland Tango 2004 Fest;
• Grand Tango Ball of Tango Fireworks Week, 2003 - the DVD of this event arguably is the best and reachest tango show ever recorded. At least from my dancer's point of view;
  

Related

• Very Brief Tango History of Tango;
• What are Pleasures of Dancing Tango;
• Why competitions in Argentine Tango make no sense;
• Dancing and the Sense of Freedom;
• Tango and Prostitution;
• Masculinity in Tango;
• It seems like ... Tango, Unknown;
• "Susana Tango Pial";
• Cuddle Party and Argentine Tango the Art of Touch;
• Samba Links ( The next two pages are not mine, but it sort of goes here: San Francisco Lindy Hop listing; Salsa Club listing );
• San Francisco Carnaval - Wow! 85 Pictures: Samba Costumes!
• Ghosts - tango is full of ghosts. It is a ghost sanctuary, it is a ghost island;
• Kything, Satsang, and Tango, Joy Choate;

 

My Tango Photo

• Teressa and Igor;
• Nina and Igor;
• Alison Hurwitz and Igor;
• Donna and Igor;
• Tango Photo, Picture, Image, and Gallery Links - The collection of tango links to images important for me, and I hope for any Argentine Tango dancer;
• Tango Videos - You will find a lot of links to tango videos I like;
• All These Pictures are Taken During Actual Performance - root page;

 

 

My name is Igor Polk. I dance Argentina tango in San Francisco.

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