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-- Paso Doble

Modern pasodoble dance can be combined with other main four dances of Latin-American program:  Samba,  Cha-cha-cha,  Rumba,  Jive, especially during final performances of ballroom dance champions. Modern pasodoble dance consists of two dancing parts and one break in between for dancers of class D and of three parts and two breaks in between for dancers of class C, B, A, according to the IDSF classification. Dancers of lower than D-class usually perform only four official dances of Latin-American Program. --

Palii, Igor (Paliy Ihor, Ігор Палій (Ukrainian), born 10 May 1966) is a contemporary Ukrainian painter, specialized in Abstractionism, combination of Abstract art  and Realism. The technique he mainly uses is Oil on Canvas. He is an official member of the Community of Artists of Ukraine.

Biography
Igor Palii was born in 1966 in Drohobych, a regional center of Western Ukraine, in a family of musicians and child care workers. In 1986 he finished faculty of architecture at Lviv Polytechnic National University. After graduation he was involved in various architectural projects combined with canvas painting. In 1987 he married Olena Polyakova. Currently he lives in Lviv, a city in the western part of Ukraine. Palii has one daughter. In 2004 he started his own company specializing in architecture and construction.

Sakhalin Period
In 1986, Igor Palii moved to Sakhalin Republic, where he worked as a Chief Decorator of a trade & advertising company. He is well-known as a master of interior for shops, restaurants and private houses in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Polish Period
Moved back to Krakow, Poland in 1992. In 1998 Palii’s first personal exhibition in Krakow was organized. Actively participates in polish cultural life and charity campaigns. In 2004 Igor Palii participated in international Art auctions, where his oil-painted canvas “Bez Tytułu. 2001” (“Without A Title.2001”) was sold for 2,772 USD.

Turn to Steel Art
Since 2002 Igor Palii turned to new art stream beginning to create his own works of art made of steel. The main cause of such turn was the need of three-dimensional figures as an addition to Palii’s paintings in a current project. In order to fulfill his new vision, Igor Palii establishes his own small enterprise of steel art production. The new turn resulted in such projects as decoration of trade center “Sophia” in the west of Ukraine, restaurant “Flamingo” in Stryi, Ukraine, “Museum of Beer”, “Aivengo” in Lviv, Ukraine. In 1999-2000 creates and implements the project of restaurant-branch “Egypt” (Stryi, Ukraine); in 2001 successfully accomplishes a project of multi-floor living house.

Achievements

 * 1987: 3rd prize for the best interior of Sakhalin Republic. The same year initiated an exhibition “Painters of Sakhalin” in Oxa, Sakhalin Republic
 * 1988: 3rd prize for political illustrations in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Republic
 * 1993: 1st personal exhibition in the Lviv National Art Gallery
 * 1994: 2nd personal exhibition in the Lviv National Art Gallery
 * 1994: Participated in collective exhibition “HungExpo”, Budapest
 * 1994: Participated in Ukrainian planner “Maidan 1994”, Lviv, Western Ukraine
 * 1995: Palii’s exhibits his arts in 2nd collective exhibition, Budhapest
 * 1996: Starts his collaboration with “Barbara Krakow Gallery”.
 * 1996: Exhibits in galleries “Közület artistichnuj”, “Labirynt”, “Galeria Kersten” , Poland
 * 2002: Participated in international exhibition in Köln, Germany at Exhibition Center Köln
 * 2003-2004: Personal exhibition in Dijon, France;
 * 2011 – Present: Palii exhibits canvases in Washington D.C., USA