Lina and Donatas officially informed Verena Sulek, Director of WDSF Professional Division, and members of PD Management Board of their retirement this morning. They wrote that they are very grateful for all the years they represented the WDSF PD in Championships and other important competitions as PD athletes. Lina and Donatas expressed their commitment to WDSF and hoped to continue in other roles in the future.
Photo: Donatas & Lina winning the 2018 World-Cup Standard in Chelyabinsk / Russian Federation
Verena Sulek understands the decision of the couple to give their “boat” a new course. She thanks Lina and Donatas for their contribution in all the years as successful competitors, representing Lithuania at all major competitions worldwide. She wishes the couple all the best for the future.
Photo: Donatas & Lina winning the 2018 European Championship Standard in St. Petersbourg
WDSF President Shawn Tay remembers the couple as excellent competitors and great athletes. He hopes to see them on the floor as adjudicators some day.
Members of the PD Management Board underline the achievements of the couple and wish the couple all the best for their future careers.
The whole WDSF DanceSport community thanks the couple for all these years and wishes them all the best for their future.
Russian Open DanceSport Championships has grown to not only a huge but also a multi-disciplined event. Russian Open Breaking Championships, a three days fest of head-spinning Breaking and world top B-boys and B-girls, took place on October 19-21 in Moscow under the aegis of the All Russian Federation of DanceSport and Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll, and started the ROC-week with a bang! The pioneer WDSF Open Breaking B-boys and WDSF Open Breaking B-girls were held in frames of the ROBC-2018.
On Friday, ROBC opened with workshops, which gathered more than 60 young B-boys and B-girls who got the opportunity to train with real Breaking legends.
On Saturday, selection rounds were held in seven groups: B-boys and B-girls Pro, 5vs5 Crews, B-boys Youth, B-girls Youth, Kids and Kids Show. More than 250 kids took part in the ROBC Kids and Kids Show nominations, about 600 B-boys and B-girls representing 11 countries: Japan, Republic of Korea, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
TOP 8 in each group were selected to continue performances at the ROBC decisive stages. World top B-boys and B-girls were invited to take part in the main events together with TOP 8 selected on Saturday. The first ever Breaking Olympic champion B-boy Bumblebee and YOG participant B-girl Matina who arrived from Buenos Aires on Saturday took part in the Russian Open Breaking Championships on Sunday.
The first international Breaking competitions hosted by the All Russian Federation of DanceSport and Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll – the Russian Open Breaking Championships – appeared to be a great success. WDSF Presidium member Lena Arvidsson attended the ROBC as a special guest and took part in the opening and awards ceremonies of the final competition day.
After WDSF President Lukas Hinder announced his resignation to bring the constituent parties closer together in how they interpret dance as sport at the 2018 Annual General Meeting on 17 June in Lausanne with a transitionary period of five months, an official handover ceremony was held during the 2018 WDSF World Championship Standard in Vienna, Austria, on 17 November 2018.
Mr. Hinder transferred the President’s gavel as a symbol for the President of the World DanceSport Federation to Mr. Shawn Tay, who has previously served WDSF in roles of General Secretary, First Vice-President, and the Vice-President for Sports during a period of 21 years.
Mr. Shawn Tay from Singapore assumed the office of WDSF President according to Article 16(2) of the Statutes. Under the Statutes the next quadrennial presidential elections are scheduled for 2021, but Mr. Tay had already at 2018 Annual General Meeting made a commitment to stand for election at the 2019 WDSF AGM to ask WDSF Member Bodies to confirm his mandate to 2021.
In his speech the newly declared WDSF President Mr. Tay emphasized his commitment to DanceSport with its multiple disciplines and thanked the Presidium and his family for support. Mr. Tay also spoke about his vision and innovative changes that will bring DanceSport disciplines games-ready for the IOC, as well as improvements for athletes via better competitions and effective competition formats.
At the official handover ceremony Mr. Hinder was officially named the Honorary Life President for WDSF for his outstanding services for the World DanceSport Federation. For over two decades, Mr. Hinder was a member of the WDSF Presidium and served the organization in the roles of Treasurer and 1st Vice-President (2007-2016) before assuming the presidency in 2016. During the presidency of Mr. Lukas Hinder DanceSport made its Olympic debut at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires (ARG). Mr. Hinder is currently the Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the International World Games Association (IWGA), he will continue to serve the IWGA will the full support of the WDSF Presidium.
It is one of the most visually attractive and beautiful competitions, which takes place in Pecs, Hungary on Saturday.
2018 World Championship Formation Standard will surely show us spectacular choreographies, colourful teams, and style and precision, which are the characteristics of formation dancing. 2017 World Champions, Vera Tyumen (RUS), is back and we can’t wait to see their new routine.
We have the updated list of the participating formations (15):
It was a true fireworks of colours, innovative choreographies and formations of dancers which were in perfect connection with each other.
The reigning European and World Champions, Vera Tyumen Standard Team (RUS), presented their "Champions League" -program and secured their fourth World title with it.
Triumph Ufa (RUS) won their first ever World Championship medal, silver, with a margin of only 0.017 points over Braunschweiger TSC from Germany, which received bronze.
The results: 1. Vera Tyumen Standard Team, RUS 2. Triumph Ufa, RUS 3. Braunschweiger TSC, GER 4. 1 TC Ludwigsburg, GER 5. Szilver TSE, HUN 6. Adria-Szigo KTSE, HUN
We had our photographer Helmut Roland in Pecs and he took some amazing photos of all finalist formations and prize presentation. Go and take a look at our gallery! And here is also an interview with Mr. Aleksey Litvinov, Chief of Vera Tyumen Standard Team.
u36v6xruKMA|ITV w. Aleksey Litvinov, RUS | 2018 World Formation STD Pecs
For one year, the couples have been dancing their hearts out to be at the GrandSlam Final in Shanghai. From Helsinki to Taipei, Rimini, Stuttgart, Moscow... All these great competitions shining to the light of Swarovski crystals have built the road to the one and only one final and expected event: the GrandSlam Final in Shanghai.
Only 24 couples, and two special invited wild cards from China will make it to the red carpet.
And during 12 days we will build our special carpet in Instagram with all of them! 12 Latin and 12 Standard couples + a special with the two wild cards from China. So please, come and cheer for your favourites for Shanghai!
We were so happy to enjoy the World Championship Formation Standard from Pecs, Hungary last week, and this weekend Formation categories continue with Latin in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China.
We can first take a look back at last year. 2017 World Championship Formation Latin was organized in Vienna, Austria in December. There were 18 formations on the starting list and the competition for the World Championship title started at quarterfinal.
It was a thriller between the finalists; two Russian teams, two German teams, one Austrian team and one Mongolian team were the top six. DUET-A Perm from Russia took home the World title with only 0.117-points margin over Grün-Gold-Club Bremen from Germany. Vera Tyumen Latin Team (RUS) won the bronze. 1. TSZ Velbert (GER) were fourth, TSC Schwarz-Gold A-Team Latin (AUT) fifth and Moon Dance from Mongolia sixth.
Earlier this year, in June in Kalisz, Poland, 2018 European Championship Formation Latin turned the table. Grün-Gold-Club Bremen (GER) won the European title by margin of 0.666 points over DUET-A Perm (RUS). 1. TSZ Velbert (GER) won the bronze, DUET-B Perm (RUS) ranked fourth, and two Austrian formations, TSC Schwarz-Gold A-Team Latin and HSV Zwölfaxing A-Team completed the final and ranked fifth and sixth respectively.
The starting list for Shenzhen shows we have a lot to look forward to:
SAVARIA TSE, Hungary TSC Schwarz-Gold Wien, Austria Austrian HSV Zwölfaxing, Austria CMG Radom Poland, Poland Elita - OSC Oswiecim, Poland Double V, Netherlands Grün-Gold-Club Bremen e.V, Germany TSZ Velbert e.V., Germany Moon Dance Mongola, Mongolia Star Dance Mongola, Mongolia FEST Vitebsk, Belarus "Vera", Russia DUET, Russia Beijing Dancing Academy, China Wu Han Dancesport school, China
It will be interesting to see how the competition turns out this time.
The schedule: First round: 14:20 local time (07:20 CET) Semifinal: 19:20 local time (12:20 CET) Final: 22:20 local time (15:20 CET)
We can seldom report that the crowd was so loud that you could barely hear the music. But this literally happened in Moscow on Sunday, when the Professional Division World Championship Standard came closer to the decisive stages.
The crowd showed their enthusiastic support already during the first rounds, but at the final - it was something amazing! You could just imagine the energy it gave to the couples as they were in the middle of the exciting final.
It might have been the overwhelming support of the crowd, or the fact that many couples had this event as the main event of the year, and all the hard work and concentration had been focused in Moscow. The final turned out to be high quality as the performance of all couples was excellent.
At the end of the day, Bjorn Bitsch and Ashli Williamson (DEN) were crowned the new World Champions. It was the eighth World title for Bjorn and Ashli: four in Adult Ten Dance, two in Professional Ten Dance and one in both ShowDance Standard and now this one in Professional Standard.
Donatas Vezelis - Lina Chatkeviciute (LTU) won silver and Nikolay Darin - Natalia Seredina (MDA) won bronze. Andrey Motyl - Ekaterina Kim (RUS) ranked fourth, Cheng Dan - Li Zhenni (CHN) fifth and Alessandro Ilarioni - Aurora Sbardella (ITA) sixth.
Go and have a look at photos in Gallery! And now you can also re-live the moments with videos of the semifinal and the final plus the Winners' interview below.
Congratulations to all couples!
Semifinal:
qwSel9e0qFw|2018 PD World Championship STD | Semi-Final | Moscow, RUS
Final:
W7oY8bC2CDE|2018 PD World Championship STD | Final | Moscow, RUS
The Winners' interview:
w3v5-V9ca88|2018 PD World Championship Standard, ITW Bitsch-Williams
As expected, the duel between Grün-Gold-Club Bremen (GER) and DUET-A Perm (RUS) continued in 2018 World Championship Formation Latin in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
The reigning European Champions managed to perform their very best and finally secured the World Title by a narrow 0.333-points margin over 2017 World Champion, and silver medalist at 2018 Europeans, DUET-A Perm. Vera Tyumen Latin Team (RUS) won the bronze, just like last year.
1. TSZ Velbert (GER) ranked fourth, and by a margin of 0.058 points Beijing Dancing Academy (CHN) were fifth over TSC Schwartz Gold A-Team Latin (AUT), who ranked sixth.
It was an exciting and sparkling day in Shenzhen! Congratulations to all formations!
Lina and Donatas officially informed Verena Sulek, Director of WDSF Professional Division, and members of PD Management Board of their retirement this morning. They wrote that they are very grateful for all the years they represented the WDSF PD in Championships and other important competitions as PD athletes. Lina and Donatas expressed their commitment to WDSF and hoped to continue in other roles in the future.
Photo: Donatas & Lina winning the 2018 World-Cup Standard in Chelyabinsk / Russian Federation
Verena Sulek understands the decision of the couple to give their “boat” a new course. She thanks Lina and Donatas for their contribution in all the years as successful competitors, representing Lithuania at all major competitions worldwide. She wishes the couple all the best for the future.
Photo: Donatas & Lina winning the 2018 European Championship Standard in St. Petersbourg
WDSF President Shawn Tay remembers the couple as excellent competitors and great athletes. He hopes to see them on the floor as adjudicators some day.
Members of the PD Management Board underline the achievements of the couple and wish the couple all the best for their future careers.
The whole WDSF DanceSport community thanks the couple for all these years and wishes them all the best for their future.
80 couples have entered the Championship, and by the end of the day they have left a mark in history books that will show their joy, commitment and determination for the quest of their own dreams. Youth, with the future ahead of them, will follow the footsteps of their predecessors hoping to reach them one day and to go even further.
For some, the dreams will come true on Saturday. For some, it will be just another step on the way towards reaching bigger dreams. And for some, the year might end up with a disappointment. But as they say, setbacks will build character, and on the verge of a new year it is a good chance to open an empty page in a notebook and start writing a whole another story for 2019.
Come what may, these young athletes are here to make a statement for the future. Let’s enjoy it!
We will broadcast the 2018 World Championship Youth Latin and World Open Standard via our partner Flodance.com starting from the 2018 World Youth Latin Quarterfinal at 16:20 local time (15:20 CET). The broadcast continues with the Evening session and all final rounds at 19:00 local time (18:00 CET).
QWapBc_jyb8|2018 WDSF World Championship Youth Latin Riga - Teaser
Out of the 79 young representatives of different nations the top six couples worked hard through five rounds of the competition and showed the Latvian crowd what the future will look like.
You could see it in their faces, the determination to end the year with a bang. For many of the couples it would be the last competition, not only for the year, but also in Youth age group.
The Big Step ahead of them they held their heads high, feet on the ground and did what they do best. They enjoyed, they had fun, and they kept their spirits up throughout the whole long day.
The final result:
1. Egor Kulikov - Maria Goroshko, RUS 2. Vladislav Untu - Polina Baryshnikova, MDA 3. Tian Wang - Jieruo He, CHN 4. Tomer Zveniatsky - Stefany Tzukerman, ISR 5. Evgeny Nikitin - Julia Khurtina, RUS 6. Axel Sampino - Anna Zgonnikova, FRA
Congratulations to all couples! Have a lovely holiday season and all the best for the New Year!
The DanceSport year 2018 will come to an spectacular end with 2018 PD World Championship ShowDance Standard in Riga, Latvia on Sunday.
The timetable shows that the first round begins at 16:00 local time (15:00 CET) and the final rounds will be in Evening Session, which is scheduled to start at 19:00 local time (18:00 CET).
There will be new World Champions, as the winners of 2017, Vadim Garbuzov - Kathrin Menzinger (AUT) are not on the starting list.
There are, however, 13 couples on the starting list:
Valentin Lusin – Renata Lusin, GER Stanislaw Wolyniec – Katarzyna Tunska, POL Sean Smullen – Aimie Leak, IRL Andriy Turkiv – Elyzaveta Vysotska, UKR Pietro Ciraci – Rosy Rodia, ITA Denys Fedorchenko – Anastasiia Molchanova, UKR Evgeny Klochkov – Lilia Semina, RUS Steeve Gaudet – Marioara Cheptene, FRA Kamil Kedra – Aleksandra Fron, POL Attila Budai – Lilla Barna, HUN Anatoly Kupchik – Julia Koliagina, RUS Andrey Motyl – Ekaterina Kim, RUS Krzysztof Musiol – Karolina Aniol, POL
Member of the WDSF Communications Team, Helmut Roland, will be there, too, to capture the best moments with his camera.
The themes of the total of thirteen ShowDance Standard performances varied somewhere between love, life circle, Mamma Mia, The Great Hunger, space and fiction. The performances, including the outfits and the music, were built to support the theme and vice versa.
There were two finalist couples from Poland: Kamil Kedra - Aleksandra Fron (Mamma Mia) and Stanislaw Wolyniec - Katarzyna Tunska (Interstellar). There were also two finalist couples from Russia: Anatoly Kupchik - Julia Koliagina (Medusa Gargona) and Andrey Motyl - Ekaterina Kim (Still Loving You). The other three finalists were Sean Smullen - Aimie Leak, IRL (The Great Hunger), Steeve Gaudet - Marioara Cheptene, FRA (Piano Forte) and Valentin Lusin - Renata Lusin, GER (Avatar).
The final result: 1. Steeve Gaudet - Marioara Cheptene, FRA 2. Valentin Lusin - Renata Lusin, GER 3. Kamil Kedra - Aleksandra Fron, POL 4. Andrey Motyl - Ekaterina Kim, RUS 5. Sean Smullen - Aimie Leak, IRL 6. Stanislaw Wolyniec - Katarzyna Tunska, POL 7. Anatoly Kupchik - Julia Koliagina, RUS
Gaudet-Cheptene ended their career in competitions with a World Championship title. Marioara's message to their fans and fellow competitors: "Small things lead to big results." Thank you for the inspiring words! All the best for the future, Steeve and Marioara!
Congratulations to all amazing couples!
km48iQ7QA1A|ITV Gaudet - Cheptene, FRA | 2018 PD World ShowDance STD | Riga, Latvia
Fb5UvYvGnTA|Retirement Gaudet - Cheptene, FRA | 2018 PD World ShowDance STD | Riga, Latvia
It was a true fireworks of colours, innovative choreographies and formations of dancers which were in perfect connection with each other.
The reigning European and World Champions, Vera Tyumen Standard Team (RUS), presented their "Champions League" -program and secured their fourth World title with it.
Triumph Ufa (RUS) won their first ever World Championship medal, silver, with a margin of only 0.017 points over Braunschweiger TSC from Germany, which received bronze.
The results: 1. Vera Tyumen Standard Team, RUS 2. Triumph Ufa, RUS 3. Braunschweiger TSC, GER 4. 1 TC Ludwigsburg, GER 5. Szilver TSE, HUN 6. Adria-Szigo KTSE, HUN
We had our photographer Helmut Roland in Pecs and he took some amazing photos of all finalist formations and prize presentation. Go and take a look at our gallery! And here is also an interview with Mr. Aleksey Litvinov, Chief of Vera Tyumen Standard Team.
u36v6xruKMA|ITV w. Aleksey Litvinov, RUS | 2018 World Formation STD Pecs
For one year, the couples have been dancing their hearts out to be at the GrandSlam Final in Shanghai. From Helsinki to Taipei, Rimini, Stuttgart, Moscow... All these great competitions shining to the light of Swarovski crystals have built the road to the one and only one final and expected event: the GrandSlam Final in Shanghai.
Only 24 couples, and two special invited wild cards from China will make it to the red carpet.
And during 12 days we will build our special carpet in Instagram with all of them! 12 Latin and 12 Standard couples + a special with the two wild cards from China. So please, come and cheer for your favourites for Shanghai!
We were so happy to enjoy the World Championship Formation Standard from Pecs, Hungary last week, and this weekend Formation categories continue with Latin in Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China.
We can first take a look back at last year. 2017 World Championship Formation Latin was organized in Vienna, Austria in December. There were 18 formations on the starting list and the competition for the World Championship title started at quarterfinal.
It was a thriller between the finalists; two Russian teams, two German teams, one Austrian team and one Mongolian team were the top six. DUET-A Perm from Russia took home the World title with only 0.117-points margin over Grün-Gold-Club Bremen from Germany. Vera Tyumen Latin Team (RUS) won the bronze. 1. TSZ Velbert (GER) were fourth, TSC Schwarz-Gold A-Team Latin (AUT) fifth and Moon Dance from Mongolia sixth.
Earlier this year, in June in Kalisz, Poland, 2018 European Championship Formation Latin turned the table. Grün-Gold-Club Bremen (GER) won the European title by margin of 0.666 points over DUET-A Perm (RUS). 1. TSZ Velbert (GER) won the bronze, DUET-B Perm (RUS) ranked fourth, and two Austrian formations, TSC Schwarz-Gold A-Team Latin and HSV Zwölfaxing A-Team completed the final and ranked fifth and sixth respectively.
The starting list for Shenzhen shows we have a lot to look forward to:
SAVARIA TSE, Hungary TSC Schwarz-Gold Wien, Austria Austrian HSV Zwölfaxing, Austria CMG Radom Poland, Poland Elita - OSC Oswiecim, Poland Double V, Netherlands Grün-Gold-Club Bremen e.V, Germany TSZ Velbert e.V., Germany Moon Dance Mongola, Mongolia Star Dance Mongola, Mongolia FEST Vitebsk, Belarus "Vera", Russia DUET, Russia Beijing Dancing Academy, China Wu Han Dancesport school, China
It will be interesting to see how the competition turns out this time.
The schedule: First round: 14:20 local time (07:20 CET) Semifinal: 19:20 local time (12:20 CET) Final: 22:20 local time (15:20 CET)
We can seldom report that the crowd was so loud that you could barely hear the music. But this literally happened in Moscow on Sunday, when the Professional Division World Championship Standard came closer to the decisive stages.
The crowd showed their enthusiastic support already during the first rounds, but at the final - it was something amazing! You could just imagine the energy it gave to the couples as they were in the middle of the exciting final.
It might have been the overwhelming support of the crowd, or the fact that many couples had this event as the main event of the year, and all the hard work and concentration had been focused in Moscow. The final turned out to be high quality as the performance of all couples was excellent.
At the end of the day, Bjorn Bitsch and Ashli Williamson (DEN) were crowned the new World Champions. It was the eighth World title for Bjorn and Ashli: four in Adult Ten Dance, two in Professional Ten Dance and one in both ShowDance Standard and now this one in Professional Standard.
Donatas Vezelis - Lina Chatkeviciute (LTU) won silver and Nikolay Darin - Natalia Seredina (MDA) won bronze. Andrey Motyl - Ekaterina Kim (RUS) ranked fourth, Cheng Dan - Li Zhenni (CHN) fifth and Alessandro Ilarioni - Aurora Sbardella (ITA) sixth.
Go and have a look at photos in Gallery! And now you can also re-live the moments with videos of the semifinal and the final plus the Winners' interview below.
Congratulations to all couples!
Semifinal:
qwSel9e0qFw|2018 PD World Championship STD | Semi-Final | Moscow, RUS
Final:
W7oY8bC2CDE|2018 PD World Championship STD | Final | Moscow, RUS
The Winners' interview:
w3v5-V9ca88|2018 PD World Championship Standard, ITW Bitsch-Williams
As expected, the duel between Grün-Gold-Club Bremen (GER) and DUET-A Perm (RUS) continued in 2018 World Championship Formation Latin in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
The reigning European Champions managed to perform their very best and finally secured the World Title by a narrow 0.333-points margin over 2017 World Champion, and silver medalist at 2018 Europeans, DUET-A Perm. Vera Tyumen Latin Team (RUS) won the bronze, just like last year.
1. TSZ Velbert (GER) ranked fourth, and by a margin of 0.058 points Beijing Dancing Academy (CHN) were fifth over TSC Schwartz Gold A-Team Latin (AUT), who ranked sixth.
It was an exciting and sparkling day in Shenzhen! Congratulations to all formations!
Lina and Donatas officially informed Verena Sulek, Director of WDSF Professional Division, and members of PD Management Board of their retirement this morning. They wrote that they are very grateful for all the years they represented the WDSF PD in Championships and other important competitions as PD athletes. Lina and Donatas expressed their commitment to WDSF and hoped to continue in other roles in the future.
Photo: Donatas & Lina winning the 2018 World-Cup Standard in Chelyabinsk / Russian Federation
Verena Sulek understands the decision of the couple to give their “boat” a new course. She thanks Lina and Donatas for their contribution in all the years as successful competitors, representing Lithuania at all major competitions worldwide. She wishes the couple all the best for the future.
Photo: Donatas & Lina winning the 2018 European Championship Standard in St. Petersbourg
WDSF President Shawn Tay remembers the couple as excellent competitors and great athletes. He hopes to see them on the floor as adjudicators some day.
Members of the PD Management Board underline the achievements of the couple and wish the couple all the best for their future careers.
The whole WDSF DanceSport community thanks the couple for all these years and wishes them all the best for their future.
