Welcome to Integrative Method Social Tango
A holistic approach to beginning, developing, and refining your dance.
Hi, I’m Yelizaveta
I teach tango for social dancers who want more musicality, cleaner technique, and a way of dancing that actually feels like them.
I never planned to be a dancer.
Before tango, my life was “successful” in the way people like to compliment.
Degrees, awards, progress.
And I was still… not happy. Not inspired. Not particularly awake inside my own life.
Tango showed up by accident. I had no training, no background, and no plan. I didn’t even think of myself as someone who could dance.
But tango is persuasive.
Suddenly I was spending nights in dim rooms with great music and strangers who felt oddly familiar. I was traveling - not to escape, but to participate.
I was learning how to listen, how to stay present, how to be in conversation without words. It made adulthood feel less like a performance and more like a life.
I started in 2009, and I’ve been at it ever since - teaching, DJing, studying, and still getting surprised by what this dance reveals.
I hope we dance one day.
What People Are Saying
“I’ve taken workshops, technique and a privates with Yelizaveta. Enthusiastic, supportive, and with great attention to the alignment details to become a great dancer. She is the best resource I have found to not just learn about tango, but to work through the steps to transform your body to really dance tango. She provides no shortcuts because there are none. Instead she is the real deal, a magnificent dancer with the musicality and refined body awareness to ensure that the time you are able to put in is most effectively directed towards a great experience for yourself and your partner.”
— EUGENE LEWINS, PORTLAND, OR
“Yelizaveta creates an environment of learning that invokes the Spirit of tango as experienced through the imagination and the senses. Participants are engaged not just as students, but as co-creators and fellow artists of the dance. What I learned about the essence of tango while working with Yelizaveta has made me a better dancer in tango and in life!”
— KATIE ROEDA, PORTLAND, OR
“I highly recommend Yelizaveta’s classes. The movements as well as the explanations, visualization and understanding of how each movement connects to tango movements has been invaluable. I can definitely feel the difference in my body and even though I have a lot to work on, I now have the tools and basic understanding of how my body should engage and move. I believe that any level tanguero(a) can benefit from this instruction. ”
— STEPHANNI JONES, LOS ANGELES, CA
