The other events - among them a World Cup Ten Dance - take place in setting which every dancer knows: the legendary Crocus Expo on Moscow's ring road. Marina Melnikova has sent us the first batch of photographs. We add them to the Gallery and to Facebook.
2017 PD Super Grand Prix Standard Final - Prize Presentation
And here are the results ...
1st place: Benedetto Ferruggia - Claudia Koehler / Germany
2nd place: Donatas Vezelis - Lina Chatkeviciute / Lithuania
3rd place: Andrzej Sadecki - Karina Nawrot / Poland
4th place: Andrey Motyl - Ekaterina Kim / Russian Federation
5th place: Artem Bronnikov - Daria Bronnikova / Russian Federation
6th place: Martin Dvorak - Zuzana Silhanova / Czech Repubic
7th place: Marco Camarlinghi - Martina Minasi / Italy
Here is interview with Benedetto and Claudia ...
The videos of the final rounds and the shows of all finalists will be uploaded to the WDSF Youtube channel DanceSportTotal soon.
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The third of the Continental Qualifiers is history, the contingent of dancers representing countries in Asia and Oceania at the 2018 World Youth Breaking in Kawasaki, JPN, has been announced - and all results will be published today!
Maybe the most appropriate summary of this event was made by one of the senior members of the judging panel. By someone who's seen and done it all during a breaking career that doubles the age of the b-boys and b-girls competing in Taiepi City, TPE.
This is what Kev James, aka B-Boy Renegade, posted on his Facebook page.
Damn! Third and final Continental Qualifier for the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games done and dusted. Back in 1982/3, when I got into this, there was no way I could have imagined this happening, much less being part of the process. The judging system is up and running. Working superbly.
This was by far the most interesting one for me. Meeting kids from Nepal, Mongolia, Bhutan, Myanmar...
I mean, who even knew these places had scenes? A few have only ever seen breaking online. They have never left their country, much less been to a jam and connected with so many like-minded individuals. Imagine being the first person in your family to leave your country. For dancing!
On top of that they get to meet a few of our shining stars: Storm, Mounir, AT, Bootuz, Narumi, Skim, Katsu, Kid Colombia, Vero, Lussy Sky ...
They are a mixture of innocence, nerves and excitement. It is, and always has been about the youth.
We wrote ahead of the event that bringing the five b-boys and B-Girl Lil-V in representation of the People's Republic of China to Taipei would not be easy. As all Cross-Straits sports exchanges, it called for special visas to be issued on both sides.
This then implied that an extra effort had to be put in by Jimmy Su, as the head of the Chinese delegation, and by Royce Yeh, as the President of the Chinese Taipei DanceSport Federation and formal host of the Qualifier. The Chinese as well as Chinese Taipei Olympic Committees and WDSF First Vice-President Shawn Tay were also involved in writing breaking history with the first ever breaking exchange.
The Chinese breakers and the officials lost one flight due to the delays in the visa issuance, but they ended up making it in time for the Qualifier. Of the six who battled last Saturday, four - three b-boys and B-Girl Lil-V, remain in the running for one of the 24 places in the YOG contingent
Well, two of them did - and that should make their coach Cha Cha Kong a very happy man! B-Girl Ivy and B-Girl B-Duck finished the Qualifier in 16th and 18th postion, respectively, and managed keep the Olympic dream of the Hong Kong breakers alive at least until 20 May 2018.
"So proud of these girls and my new students," Chacha Kong wrote on his Facebook page. "They made it to the World Youth Breaking Championship in Tokyo next year in May. But this has just begun! Thank you so much for believing in me and for listening to me!"
Read the full article about their exploit on hk01.com!
30 breakers representing 13 countries in Asia and Oceania advance to the third and final stage of the Olympic qualification process: the WDSF World Youth Breaking Championship on 20 May 2018 in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, JPN.
"It is extremely important that you get in touch with your National Olympic Committee (NOC) to discuss the qualification and provide the NOC with positive background information about DanceSport as well as the discipline of breaking in your country," Felli wrote in the letters. "That will help to guide your NOC towards a favourable decision when it comes to validating participation in the YOG," he concluded.
Letters wents out to the following NMBs (in the order of the number of athletes qualified and the alphabet):
Japan (2 b-girls and 3 b-boys)
South Korea (2 b-girls and 3 b-boys)
Chinese Taipei (2 b-girls and 3 b-boys)
China (1 b-girl and 3 b-boys)
Australia (2-boys)
Hong Kong (2 b-girls)
Philippines (2 b-boys)
Kyrgyzstan (1 b-girl)
Malaysia (1 b-boy)
Thailand (1 b-boy)
Vietnam (1 b-boy)
Only one single country which qualified an athlete (B-Boy Tricky Tricks) does not have a NMB (yet): Nepal!
And the results of the final are:
1st place: Vadim Garbuzov - Kathrin Menzinger / Austria (310 points)
2nd place: Bjorn Bitsch - Ashli Williamson / Denmark (294 points)
3rd place: Valentin Lusin - Renata Lusin / Germany (279 points)
4th place: Artem Bronnikov - Daria Bronnikova / Russian Federation (264 points)
5th place: Francesco Andreani - Francesca Longarini Italy (254 points)
6th place: Danilo Campisi - Julia Burghardt / Austria (248 points)
7th place: Budai Attila - Barna Lilla / Hungary (217 points)
8th place: Pietro Ciraci - Rosy Rodia / Italy (202 points)
See the interview with Vadim Garbuzov - Kathrin Menzinger / Austria
There is an alternative way to secure your place in the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games. Why not sign up as a volunteer? The Organising Committee is recruiting volunteers aged 18 and older for a variety of tasks!
As the organisers say, "All tasks are significant; all responsibilities are key. There is a place waiting for you. Be a Buenos Aires 2018 volunteer. Be part of the history."
Maybe we should add the following information too!
The volunteer's task is ad-honorem.
The accommodation or travel expenses of the volunteers are not paid for by the Organising Committee.
Public transport will be free for volunteers during the Games.
You will receive a snack and lunch or dinner depending on your schedule.
You will wear an Olympic Youth uniform.
When the Games are over you will receive two digital certificates; one for the training you received and another for your participation in the volunteer program.
There they look for individual donations from 5 to 500+ € to cover the airfare to and the stay in Tokyo of three b-boys who have a shot at making it to the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympics by excelling in the WDSF World Breaking Championships in Japan. The target: 3,500 €! Close to 300 € were raised in less than 24h!
The World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) congratulates Danssport Vlaanders and Straatrijk on their initiative. WDSF hopes that its National Member Body, the Belgian Dancesport Federation, will make a significant contribution and solicit the support of the Belgian National Olympic Committee as well.
Jacowbski produced a video for the crowdfunding drive! Donate under the following link! https://nl.ulule.com/belgiumbreakdance/
Please refer to the schedule provided by the organisers for information what will get webcast when. HD streaming will once more be courtesy of the host broadcaster lmt straume!
The programme is made up of four parts: the full-length semi-final, interviews with the semi-finalists, the full-length final and interviews with the medallists. Approximately 90-minutes running time. Add to this the 40-minute quarterfinal as a bonus feature: all for US$ 3.75!
Get it: 2017 GrandSlam Latin Final!
2017 GrandSlam Latin Final from World DanceSport Federation.
For starting times of the different rounds, please refer to the schedule of the LIVE webcast from the Baltic Grand Prix in Riga, LAT, below the player! All times are local, UTC/GMT +2 h! Enjoy!
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The evening part with the semi-finals and finals of the World Open STD and the Youth Open Latin starts at 17:00 h UTC/GMT. Live transmission of earlier rounds and other competitions starts at 13:30 h UTC/GMT.
About 500 guests gathered on December 12 in Moscow to recollect the history of DanceSport, to pay tribute to those legendary dancers who were the pioneers of DanceSport in Russia and who made a considerable contribution to DanceSport development.
All generations of DanceSport community were present at the Gala Evening including Ceslovas and Jurate Norvaisa - the symbol of the legendary generation of DanceSport founders. Russian National Team members, former World and European champions, Russian top teachers and adjudicators attended the 60th Anniversary of DanceSport.
The event was supported by the Russian top sports officials who came to congratulate the Russian DanceSport with the jubilee: Chairperson of the Sport and Youth Committee of the Russian State Duma Mikhail Degtyarev, Deputy Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation Sergey Kosilov, Head of the Department for Sport and Tourism of Moscow Nikolay Gulyaev, Minister of Physical Culture and Sport of Krasnodar region Lyudmila Chernova, Minister of Youth and Sport of Tatarstan Republic Vladimir Leonov.
WDSF PD Director Verena Sulek and WDSF Presidium member Lena Arvidsson were among honorary guests of the Gala Evening.
The Masters of Ceremony, Russian National artists Angelina Vovk and Vladimir Berezin created a special festive atmosphere. Performance of the Russian popular singers was a real present for the guests.
Dancing was definitely in the spotlight. Russian top DanceSport couples and breakers performed their exquisite shows to an ovation of the grateful public.
Russian DanceSport has come a long way for the past 60 years. Nowadays Russian athletes win medals and show excellent results at international competitions, performing the best quality dancing. A lot has been done to develop DanceSport into a modern kind of sport in Russia.
The All Russian Federation of DanceSport and Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll – the Russian governing body for DanceSport – pursues the policy aimed at further DanceSport development. Membership in the Russian Olympic Committee recently granted to FDSARR is a new step towards the successful evolution of DanceSport in Russia.
The 60th Anniversary of DanceSport in the State Kremlin Palace was widely covered by Russian top mass media and television proving that DanceSport remains to be one of the most popular kinds of sports in the Russian Federation.
WDSF Adjudicators' Commission Chairman Cor van der Stroet debriefs Andrea Beer, who judged the 2017 World Latin in Vienna, AUT, in a one-on-one session held on the day following the championship.
200 dancers performed and 700 guests watched what was appropriately put under the theme "Power of Unity," namely DanceSport of the most varied kind. The video below provides some impressions!
The President of the World DanceSport Federation, Lukas Hinder, conveyed a congratulatory message on behalf of the international governing body through a video recording made at the 2017 World Latin a few days earlier.
In the video below, WDSF Adjudicators' Commission Chairman Cor van der Stroet debriefs Ingrid Fussek, who judged the 2017 World Latin in Vienna, AUT, in a one-on-one session held on the day following the championship.
This is the last of the sessions which were recorded in Vienna. The next competition with debriefs will be the 2018 GrandSlam Helsinki in March. The audio quality will be improved by then. Here is the link to the playlist with the six sessions.
Tomas Fainsil - Violetta Posmetnaya, GER
Francesco Galuppo - Debora Pacini, ITA
Alexey Glukhov - Anastasia Glazunova, RUSVasily Kirin - Ekaterina Prozorova, AUT Vaidotas Lacitis -Veronika Golodneva, LTU
Evgeny Moshenin - Dana Spitsyna, RUS
Evgeny Nikitin - Anastasia Miliutina, RUS
Vadim Shurin - Anastasia Meshkova, LAT
Anton Skuratov - Alena Uehlin, GER
Evaldas Sodeika - Ieva Zukauskaite, LTU
Qiu Yuming - Wei Liying, CHN
Dmitry Zharkov - Olga Kulikova, RUS ...
Watch all of these exceptional couples dance in the 2017 GrandSlam Standard Final, the "Showdown in Shanghai!"
An 8-camera production in High Definition covering the decisive stages of the GrandSlamStandard Final. With full graphics but without commentary. The programme is made up of four parts: the full-length semi-final, interviews with the semi-finalists, the full-length final and interviews with the medallists. Approximately 90 minutes running time. 40-minute bonus feature: The First Round!
2017 GrandSlam STD Final
Dear Friends in DanceSport!
It is that time of the year when all of us tend to look in both directions – back at the past and ahead into the future – to take stock of where we are, where we are going and what we are doing in order to get there. It is a time of reflection and renewal.
Prior to the message you are reading, I have circulated another one to the members of the Presidium as well as the standing Commissions and the Committees, comparing the challenges WDSF will face in 2018 with those of mountaineers. Anyone belonging to this group of driven sportsmen should be able to confirm that the most perilous stage in an ascension is the one just prior to making summit. With the physical strength diminished by efforts of getting to the current height, the continued upward journey can easily appear more cumbersome – and the environment more adverse – than what is called for.
WDSF comes off another highly successful year, with our sport reaching new heights through its sixth participation in The World Games in Wroclaw, POL, as well as in many other major events held in close to 100 countries. Some managed to bring diversity to the dance floors, others focused on one or two single disciplines. Between all of them, they managed to define our brand in its full breadth.
No “event” was more encompassing and global than the first stage in the qualifying for the Breaking events at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games (BAYOG). With a system WDSF had developed specifically to go beyond the customary limitations of the organized and federated DanceSport, we succeeded in motivating more than 1,000 b-boys and b-girls from 81 different countries to enter into an IOC-sanctioned qualification process which made an uplifting statement. Dance as sport is easily capable to transgress the boundaries of a conventional contest. It can give more athletes the opportunity to express themselves in ways which are unique, even among those falling under the label “artistic.”
At the end of 2017, WDSF has reduced the number of breakers continuing in contention for one of the 24 BAYOG berths to less than 100. Between them, they represent 33 different National Olympic Committees. And there is only one dancer from one single country where WDSF does not (yet) have a Member Body: B-Boy Tricky Tricks from Nepal.
WDSF is on the right track – no doubt about that – but to make summit in the Himalayas, or anywhere else for that matter, it will need to be even more accommodating in some of the views it holds. If a dancer with Olympic aspirations is found between 80 and 8,000 metres (the range of elevation in Nepal) anywhere in the world, WDSF must be there too! The limits can only be the sky.
This is the message I would like to convey to you. Let’s renew the commitment to broaden our horizons and let's reach for the sky!
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2018!
Lukas Hinder
WDSF President
GOOD LUCK ON YOUR #YOGJOURNEY!
As it does every year on 1 January, the International World Games Association launches its ATHLETE OF THE YEAR (AotY) poll. Jacek Tarczilo and Anna Miadzielec represent DanceSport, Acrobatic Rock 'n' Roll, Poland and - above all - themselves on the ballots.
Crowned World Games 2017 Champions in their home country last July, the have won every title there is in Acrobatic Rock 'n' Roll at least once over the past six years.
We urge you to #voteJacekandAnna today, tomorrow and every day through 31 January 2018. You have one vote per day. Only if you repeat day after day, will the two exceptional dancers stand a chance to add this AotY title to their long list of achievements.
#voteJacekandAnna on theworldgames.org
