We are emphasizing the
importance of couples
communication - the
main source of success
Deep understanding of the psychology of tango, sociological elements of the movements, hidden energy of communication makes their
lessons very interesting. Students discover some hidden secrets of connections and authentic energy inside the dance frame.
Moreover, Elena and Victor learned Ballroom and Latin dances with some world well known dance instructors, as such as Mary
Murphy, the owner of Champion Ballroom Academy in San Diego, and a judge on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance, Karla
and Ron Montez, Tony Meredith, Marcus Johnson, Yuki Haraguchi, Radomir Pashev, Devorah Kastner, and others. While in California,
Elena is teaching tango and other dances at Champion Ballroom and Fallbrook. Also, she is annually teaching at uniques dancing spa and
resorts as Rancho La Puerta (Tecate, Mexico), and on some cruise ships around the world.
During 2004-09 Elena has been teaching Tango on some cruise ships. For example, on Norwegian Sun from Buenos Aires to Santiago
her unique tango classes were hold twice a day for 30 days. Each class successfully collected 150 students of many different languages
The Pankeys of
Orange County
Victor is a businessman, forth generation farmer, with PhD in Agriculture Economics. He is highly educated, fluent in Spanish, well
read and traveled the world. Victor has noble, modest, peaceful and polite character. He enjoyes theater, dancing, teaching. In his
youth he played a flute and was flying aeroplanes. Tango Caminito Dance School is honored to have Victor as a musical and
technical director for some special events. Victor does technical preparations for the production shows, makes video clips,
enjoys being DJ.
Founder of Tango Caminito Dance School, producer, choreographer, Tanguera Elena was fundamentally
trained by some of the best tango masters of the world. She finished Choreography, Master classes,
and obtained Professional Tango Teacher Diploma.
Elena and Victor often go to Argentina to learn unique sub culture-tango, and to polish tango skills with some local original dance
instructors. Elena and Victor have special appreciation and awareness of the Present Moment, important for tango. They share with their
students joy of synchronized movements, and bring into the lessons cultural knowledge from different countries, musicality and some
elements of the dramatic art while preparing students for the shows.
LOVE OF THE LAND - This book and remarkable stories it tells allow us to see inside the window
of the Pankey house-- to see a family's success and failures, its triumphs and tragedies, and its trials
and travails. It is a moving love story of two people who came together, no only to raise a family, but
also to experience life and all it has about love of the family, love of country, and love of life. It is the
roots of a remarkable couple and family.- From the Introduction by Jim Doti, President of Chapman
University and Donald Bren Distinguished Professor Of Business and Economics
Elena holds Bachelor, Master Degrees in several areas, including Slavonic philologist, linguist, journalist from a
prestige St.Petersburg (Leningrad) State University, Russia. Elena has more than 40 years of job experience in
different areas of art, journalism, cinematography, dancing. She studied Russian, Mexican and African folk dances,
attended Acting and Music Schools (accordion). Elena is a world traveler, living internationally, her main activity is
teaching and writing. Her articles were published in Dance Notes (USA), La Vida Tango, Performer, and others.
Moreover, some of her hobbies are Thi-Chi, Yoga, Zumba dance, aerobics, NIA, Feldenkrais, Reike, Gardening,
Natural Healing, Herbs Remedy, others.
During 2001-2004 Elena performed tango on several cruise ships with a professional Argentinian performing group Las Pampas Devils
(Hugo Daniel, Pablo Vino), and danced around the world with some fabulous dancers.
Tango influence came from well known shows Tango Passion, Tango Bravo (Los Ocampo) and Forever Tango (Marcela Duran, Carlos
Gavito). Elena studied tango on numerous private lessons with such wonderful tango masters as Cristian Cisneros, Virginia Porrino, Marcos
Questas, Miriam Larici, Hugo Patyn, Fernanda Ghi, Guillermo Merlo, Nito and Elba Garcia, Luisa Paes, Norberto Pulpo Esbrez, others.
Discover some hidden
secrets of life-dance
connections on our
special, fun tango lessons
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Enjoy the book Love of the Land: The Pankeys of Orange County, chronicles the family's agricultural
heritage. As farmland began to dwindle, Pankey's entrepreneurial...