Magic Ball in Karlsruhe, Germany, set the stage for the 2019 PD European Championship Latin. 36 couples from 15 nations had come to compete for the title. After three rounds six couples had been qualified. And the results are ...
1st place: Gabriele Goffredo - Anna Matus / Moldova
2nd place: Marts Smolko - Tina Bazykina / Latvia
3rd place: Vincenzo Marinello - Sara Casini / Italy
4th place: Alexandr Shmonin - Maria Shmonina / Russian Federation
5th place: Bogdan Boie - Natalia Luciv / Moldova
6th place: Mario Cecinati - Rosaria Messina Denaro / Italy
The interview with the 2019 PD European Champions Latin ...
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Want to watch the 2019 WDSF World Breaking Championship but are unable to make it to Nanjing, China? Then tune into The Olympic Channel on 23 June, where you can watch the battles live from wherever you are around the world!
The Olympic Channel will stream the action starting from the Round Robin stage from 14:30 local time (08:30 CEST, 02:30 EDT). The semifinals are scheduled to begin at 19:45 local time (13:45 CEST, 07:45 EDT), with the finals set to begin one hour later.
In addition, all the battles from the Round Robin stage onward will be saved on the WDSF DanceSport YouTube Channel so make sure to subscribe so you will not miss a beat.
Over 150 b-boys and b-girls from 66 countries are set to compete at the World Championship, including some of the biggest names in Breaking. A list of all competitors can be found here.*
*Chinese entrants will be decided during national qualifiers on 22 June.
The World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) warmly welcomes today’s decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session to include Breaking on the sports programme of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Breaking made its Olympic debut last year at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, but its inclusion on the Paris 2024 programme is the first time any DanceSport discipline has appeared at an Olympic Games. The 2024 Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in the French capital from 26 July to 11 August.
“Today is a historic day for the DanceSport community and the discipline of Breaking,” said WDSF President Shawn Tay. “We are sure Breaking will be an outstanding success in Paris and will add lots of energy, athletic excellence, innovation and youth appeal to the Olympic Games. WDSF, together with the Breaking community, is ready to collaborate closely with Paris 2024 and the IOC to make the Olympic dream of the world’s best b-boys and b-girls come true.”
Breaking, together with Skateboarding, Sport Climbing and Surfing were proposed in February by the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for inclusion at the XXXIII Olympiad. In March, the IOC Executive Board (EB) gave the green light to the proposal, which was then put to a vote by the IOC Session (the assembly of all IOC members), currently meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Paris 2024 organisers proposed the four sports in response to a new level of flexibility afforded to Olympic Games Host Cities to encourage innovation in the Olympic programme. Host Cities, beginning with Tokyo 2020, now have the option of suggesting new sports and events for inclusion in their edition of the Games that are not binding on future Games hosts.
“This is historic,” said b-boy Mounir, the Vagabond Crew member who joined the Paris 2024 delegation presenting at today’s IOC Session. “We were humble, but we never doubted. A pessimist never changed the world. We started from nothing, we learned how to make more with less, we believed in the impossible and today the impossible becomes possible.”
Skateboarding, Sport Climbing and Surfing were also included on the programme for Tokyo 2020, making Breaking the only new sport currently being considered for the 2024 programme. A competition format featuring 16 b-boys and 16 b-girls is anticipated for Paris 2024.
The final decision on Breaking’s inclusion at Paris 2024 will only be taken after the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in December 2020. In the meantime, the IOC will have a monitoring programme in place that will look at the performance, management, governance and integrity of each of the four sports.
Today’s thumbs up by the IOC Session recognises the worldwide appeal and growth of Breaking, as exemplified by the success of Breaking’s three medal events at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, where upwards of 30,000 people came each day to see the competition.
The 2019 WDSF World Breaking Championship, held just two days ago in Nanjing, China, was hailed as an outstanding success as well. Over 150 b-boys and b-girls from 66 countries, including some of the biggest names in Breaking, competed in the event, which also served as qualifier for the Breaking competition at the first edition of the World Urban Games (WUG) in September in Budapest, Hungary. The qualification events for the WDSF World Championship in Nanjing were conducted by WDSF National Member Federations.
Sochi (RUS) hosts a four-day event, which has already started on Wednesday. The event can truly be called a multi-disciplined event as there are DanceSport competitions within the event with a wide spectrum of dance styles: Standard, Latin, Rock’n’Roll, Boogie Woogie and Breaking.
On Thursday and Friday all the fans of Breaking can enjoy the high-quality competitions as the WDSF World Open Breaking 1vs1 b-boys, WDSF Open Breaking 6vs6, WDSF Youth Open Breaking 1vs1 b-girls and WDSF Youth Open Breaking 1vs1 b-boys do their best moves in front of an international, high level panels of judges. The panels include the head judge Storm (GER) and judges Aslan (RUS), Ruen (USA), Menno (NED), Physics (KOR), Mounir (FRA), Ayumi (JPN) and Focus (FIN).
The WDSF Associate Member, WRRC, organises the World Cup Rock’n’Roll for Juveniles, Children and Juniors, and World Cup Boogie Woogie Main Class and Juniors. Total of 140 couples from 16 countries will participate, with the most number of couples in Rock’n’Roll Juveniles (54). The Rock’n’Roll and Boogie Woogie competitions take place on Saturday.
The WDSF World Open Standard takes place on Friday and the WDSF World Open Latin on Saturday. The event in Sochi is taking place on several dance floors, and the FDSARR YouTube channel is showing live stream (below) from each of these floors. The streaming links change every day. That is not all there is for this week! Kavala (GRE) hosts a WDSF International Open Latin and WDSF Open competitions on Saturday. Minsk (BLR) hosts a WDSF Open Under 21 Standard and Latin, as well as the DSE Children Grand Prix on Friday. And finally, New Orleans (USA) hosts a WDSF Open Standard and Latin, and WDSF Open Smooth competitions for Senior age groups on Friday.
It is safe to say that the warm DanceSport Summer of 2019 will continue to highlight the host cities with fireworks, shimmer and glitter, combined with high talent.
The four-day event in Sochi (RUS) had five disciplines included in the schedule. The event kicked off with Breaking, continued with Standard and Latin, and ended with Rock’n’Roll and Boogie Woogie. The Olympic Park was buzzing from Wednesday to Saturday with all the fantastic dancers and their entourages mingling with each other and enjoying the fantastic setting.
The fourth leg of the WRRC World Cup Series in Boogie Woogie Main Class had 16 couples on the starting list. Sondre Olsen Bye – Tatiana Georgiievska (NOR) won the event, Juho Päivinen – Mari Munne (FIN) made it to the silver medals, and Serhii Andriiko – Khrystyna Nimenko (UKR) ranked third. The other World Cup winners were Anton Graßl – Magdalena Schmid (GER) in Boogie Woogie Juniors, Miha Cesnovar – Paulina Horvat-Zeilhofer (SLO) in Rock’n’Roll Juniors, Heorhii Tahaibai – Yelyzaveta Kaverina (UKR) in Rock’n’Roll Juveniles, and Dmytro Potaman – Amaliya Kryklyva (UKR) in Rock’n’Roll Children.
WDSF World Open Standard was competed on Friday. Evgeny Moshenin – Dana Spitsyna (RUS) continued their successful year by winning the event over their fellow Russians Alexey Glukhov – Anastasia Glazunova and Evgeny Sveridonov – Angelina Barkova. WDSF World Open Latin on Saturday had also familiar names on the podium as Armen Tsaturyan – Svetlana Gudyno (RUS) won the event, Andrey Gusev – Vera Bondareva (RUS) ranked second and Anton Aldaev – Natalia Polukhina (RUS) ranked third.
Meanwhile, in New Orleans (USA) six couples were dancing WDSF Senior I Open Smooth, adding another DanceSport discipline to the weekend, and making it total of six different styles on the menu. Rodney Berry – Shannon Berry (USA) dominated the competition over Mike Shelton – Daneen Shelton (USA) who ranked second, and Patrick Datoc – Antoinette Datoic (USA) who ranked third. In WDSF Open Standard and Latin competitions the winners were Gokturk Yurtyapan – Asli Yurtyapan (USA) in Senior I and Senior II Standard, Yusuf Mihaylov – Elena Simonova (USA) in Senior III Standard, and Khuong Pham – Arlene Yu (USA) in Senior II and Senior III Latin.
Kavala (GRE) hosted WDSF International Open Latin. Out of 36 couples, the winners were Alexey Dolgushin – Ksenia Piatakhina (RUS). Nikolaos Karoglou – Polyvia Moschou (GRE) won the WDSF Youth Open Latin, Erik Heer – Juliane Engelke (GER) won the WDSF Under 21 Open Latin, Artem Zhuravlev – Polina Akimova (RUS) dominated the WDSF Open Standard, and Artti Oskar Maasik – Mileene Varik (EST) won the WDSF Youth Open Standard.
In Minsk (BLR). the WDSF Under 21 Open Standard and Latin had the same winners as Aleksandr Tishuk – Katsiaryna Shibeko (BLR) had registered for both competitions and won them both convincingly by winning all dances in the finals of both disciplines. The Minsk event had also DSE Children Grand Prix on the schedule, making the event a festival of the youngest of dancers.
The summer heat wave continues, and so does the DanceSport Summer of 2019. Next weekend there will be a three-day event in Wuppertal (GER) with WDSF World Open Standard and Latin, and WDSF Open for all age groups from Under 21 to Senior IV. Batumi (GEO) hosts WDSF International Open Latin on Sunday, and WDSF Open Ten Dance and WDSF Youth Open Latin on Saturday.
And, only a week after that, the third leg of the 2019 GrandSlam Series takes place in Rimini (ITA), where the superstars will meet again, bringing the heat to a yet another level.
WDSF Academy and WDSF Vice-President for Sports, Mr. Nenad Jeftic invite you to participate the WDSF Adjudicators Congress for Salsa 5 - 6th of September. The Congress, hosted by the Colombian DanceSport Federation, is a milestone in developing and including more dance disciplines into WDSF ongoing daily activity.
Date: 5 September 2019 - 6 September 2019
Location: Cali - Colombia
Registration: CHF 150, registration and payment is allowed at the door for this congress.
Exam and Test: The exam and test results will only apply to candidates who attend two days Congress and have been confirmed by a WDSF National Member Body.
Nearest Airport: International Airport Alfonso Bonilla Aragón
Venue Address: National School of Sports (Escuela Nacional del Deporte): Cl. 9 & Cra. 34, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Wuppertal, Germany hosts a three-day event in a beautiful Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal, located in the “Rhein-Ruhr” metropolitan region in the heart of North Rhine-Westphalia. The event which has evolved into one of the largest DanceSport events in Germany, attracts every year hundreds of couples of all ages and performance levels, from beginners to World Champions, to Wuppertal to join the festivities and to enjoy the competitions in a glamorous atmosphere.
The WDSF World Open Latin on Saturday has 106 couples on the list of entries, including Marius-Andrei Balan – Khrystyna Moshenska (GER) who will surely be the big favourites of the German crowd. The World Open Standard on Sunday has 101 couples entered, and the level of the competition is the same as in Latin; very high.
The event will start on Friday, July 5th around noon CET with WDSF Open competitions, and finish on Sunday evening after 21:00 CET. The organizer informed us of a live stream, which can be viewed at https://multibc.tv/dtv/. We are hoping to get the codes of the streams of each of the three dance floors, and if we do, we will embed the live streams to this page.
Batumi, Georgia hosts a WDSF International Open Latin on Sunday, and WDSF Open Ten Dance and WDSF Youth Open Latin on Saturday. The event, which will be held for the fourteenth time, is located in the Euphoria Batumi Hotel, in the capital city of Adjara, on the coast of the Black Sea. 31 couples have registered for the International Open Latin.
Good luck to all the competitors and all the best wishes for the organisers!
Wuppertal, Germany, hosted one of the largest DanceSport events in Germany. The three-day event was highlighted by the WDSF World Open Latin on Saturday and the WDSF World Open Standard on Sunday. The event included also WDSF Open Standard and Latin competitions for all the age groups from Under 21 to Senior IV. The total number of starts in all WDSF competitions during the three days was 1000.
Marius-Andrei Balan – Khrystyna Moshenska (GER) returned to the German soil and repeated their last year win of the World Open Latin. The scores in the final show they dominated the competition from start to finish. The runners-up were Anton Aldaev – Natalia Polukhina (RUS) who ranked second, and Winson Tam – Anastasia Novikova (CAN) who ranked third.
On Sunday, the Estonians Madis Abel – Aleksandra Galkina secured their win over the Germans Tomas Fainsil – Violetta Posmetnaya and the Danes Pasquale Farina – Sofie Koborg. The most interesting result can be found on the fifth place, which was tied between Winson Tam – Anastasia Novikova (CAN) and Yuan Shaoyang – Qi Chongxuan (CHN) as both couples received exactly the same final scores, 172.668 in the final.
Batumi, Georgia, hosted a WDSF International Open Latin on Sunday. Artyom Liaskovsky – Ksenia Zaputriaeva (ISR) secured their win by winning all five dances in the final. Rati Gachechiladze - Karyna Lysenko (GEO) ranked second and Ilya Beloborodov - Victoria Kochkina (RUS) ranked third. The WDSF Youth Open Latin winners were Otar Tsiklauri - Mariam Megrelidze (GEO) and the WDSF Open Ten Dance were won by Viacheslav Golubkov - Alyona Prikhodko (KAZ).
After this two-event weekend were are heading to Rimini, Italy, where the 2019 WDSF GrandSlam Series continues on Saturday and Sunday. Campionati Italiani is already running at Fiera di Rimini with many disciplines having their competitions at the same venue, filling the seaside resort with dance, talent and joy. WDSF Communications Team will be there reporting live later this week!
Breaking was included in the program alongside other disciplines during the four-day event in Sochi (RUS). The fantastic setting of the Sochi Olympic Park saw an energetic WDSF World Open Breaking 1vs1 b-boys as well as three dynamic WDSF Open Breaking competitions.
67 b-boys were battling for the WDSF World Open Breaking 1vs1 B-boys title. Alkolil (RUS) took the victory over Jamal (RUS) in the explosive final battle. The battle for the third place turned out in favour of Cheerito (RUS), who won the thrilling battle with Bullet From Space (RUS).
WDSF Open Breaking Teams 6vs6 turned out victorious for Jinjo (KOR), who overtook The Ruggeds (NED) in the exciting final. Predatorz (RUS) won the battle for the third place over Found Nation (JPN). 14 fabulous teams participated the competition.
WDSF Open Youth Breaking 1vs1 B-girls had six talented 16-18 years old b-girls on the starting list. Lee (RUS) won the dynamic final battle over Uzelok (RUS), and Luna (RUS) won the votes of the judging panel in the battle for the third place with Alien Ra (RUS).
WDSF Open Youth Breaking 1vs1 B-boys had thirteen 16-18 years old b-boys registered for the competition. DOPE DOG (RUS) convinced the judging panel and won the energetic final battle with D-Way (RUS). Iron (RUS) defeated Fly (RUS) in the battle for the third place.
The international, high-quality panel of judges included the head judge Storm (GER) and judges Aslan (RUS), Ruen (USA), Menno (NED), Physics (KOR), Mounir (FRA), Ayumi (JPN) and Focus (FIN).
The newest addition is Moises ”Moy” Rivas (B-boy Moy) from the USA in the WDSF Athletes Commission led by Mrs. Ashli Williamson (DEN).
B-boy Moy, featured recently at the Olympic Channel podcast, has over 20 years of experience both in dancing but also giving back to the community by sharing his vision and dance all over the world. His story emphasizes on the importance of searching and finding a passion, and he has found it himself in creating opportunities that will encourage everyone that anything is possible.
As a competing b-boy he has been active since 1995 and he has reached top 4 in the main events, including Silverback Open in 2014 and Undisputed USA 2017. Since 2016 he has also been a member of Monster Crew.
Moy was appointed by the IOC as Athlete Role Model for Breaking at the Youth Olympic Games 2018, to serve as the mentor to young b-boys and b-girls who competed in the YOG, and to local youth as well, spending time with them and participating in activities which revolved around sport, culture and education.
The Athletes’ Commission is a consultative body of WDSF, submitting opinions held and requests articulated by the active athletes in DanceSport directly to the Presidium. The chairperson represents the commission’s views and opinions at the Presidium meetings.
Over the years to come, the commission is to grow organically and should - ultimately - comprise representatives of all DanceSport disciplines under WDSF auspices. Absolute gender parity among the members is to mark its composition as much as it does DanceSport in general.
In a recent newsletter circulated to NMBs the WDSF Academy introduced a new type of norm of lectures to both Athletes and Adjudicators. The three outstanding WDSF World Champion couples have been invited to share their experiences and give lectures in an Open Combined Congress on Monday, August 12th.
The second day of the WDSF Adjudicators’ AJS Congress is a special congress, which touch on topics on creative choreography combining modern trend and characterised technical figures.
The lectures by three fabulous World Champion couples, Bjorn Bitsch – Ashli Williamson (DEN), Gabriele Goffredo – Anna Matus (MDA) and Dmitry Zharkov – Olga Kulikova (RUS) focus on:
Keeping the character of the dance by keeping characteristic figures in the choreography
Adding innovative figures to make the choreography more interesting with better contrast and surprises
Balance between characteristic figures and innovative figures
Innovative using of music
At the end of the lectures the participants are able to recognize:
Different level of qualities in innovation choreography
What is excessive innovation
How can character of dance be lost
More information about Adjudicators’ and Athletes’ registration, entry fee and the detailed timetable can be found at the Congress Calendar.
World Ten Dance Champions in 2018, two-times European Ten Dance Champions, World Cup and European Cup Ten Dance winners, Konstantin Gorodilov – Dominika Bergmannova (EST) announced during the weekend that they will leave Standard for now, and continue competing in Latin programme only.
The couple reached their first GrandSlam Latin final in Chinese Taipei in June, and they won the European Cup Latin in Salaspils in May. They have also won World Cup Latin silver medals in 2018, and on the current World Ranking List the couple stands on the eighth place.
”The decision was hard”, they said, revealing they have still been secretly dancing Standard in the practice room every once in a while. They don’t exclude the possibility to some day come back to the Standard or Ten Dance competitions, but for now they will concentrate on Latin only.
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Only a week after the GrandSlam Standard in Rimini, the World Cup Standard in Da Lian (CHN) has gathered 18 couples representing 18 countries to the dance floor competing for the 2019 World Cup Standard title. The title winners of 2018 were Madis Abel – Aleksandra Galkina (EST) (in photos).
The line-up this year looks amazing as several couples who made it to the quarterfinal in Rimini have travelled to China. The brightest stars are Francesco Galuppo – Debora Pacini (ITA), the current World Ranking number five and the first runners-up in all three GrandSlams this year. Tomas Fainsil – Violetta Posmetnaya (GER) reached semifinal in Rimini, just like Edgars Linis – Eliza Ancane (LAT) making them some of the most interesting names on the starting list.
Da Lian is hosting a two-day event which also includes World Open Latin. The biggest names on the starting list on Sunday are the reigning World and European Champions and 13-times GrandSlam winners Armen Tsaturyan – Svetlana Gudyno (RUS). The charismatic Polish couple Edgar Marcos Borjas – Alina Nowak, the German couple Artur Baladin – Anna Salita (GER), and the Romanian couple Paul Moldovan – Cristina Tatar have also registered. The Canadian couple Winson Tam – Anastasia Novikova is taking advantage of the trip to China in full and participates both competitions.
Brcko District in Bosnia and Herzegovina hosts a WDSF World Open New Series event on Saturday. 54 couples are participating the World Open NS Latin, among them Giacomo Lazzarini – Michelle Nazarenus (BIH), who have competed together since February winning all their competitions so far. 40 couples have registered for the World Open NS Standard.
We will keep an eye on a possible live stream and embed or add the link here in case there is one.
18 couples participated the 2019 WDSF World Cup Standard in Da Lian (CHN) on Saturday. There were four rounds in the competition, and after the last dance of the final Francesco Galuppo – Debora Pacini (ITA) were announced as winners. After winning the title also in 2016 and 2017, the couple reached their third World Cup title.
Tomas Fainsil – Violetta Posmetnaya (GER) ranked second, and after a very tight final with a margin of 0.1 points in scores Edgars Linis – Eliza Ancane (LAT) ranked third before the reigning European Ten Dance Champions Daniil Ulanov – Kateryna Isakovych (CYP), who were barely left outside the podium.
World Open Latin in Da Lian on Sunday had clear winners as Armen Tsaturyan – Svetlana Gudyno (RUS) won the competition before Edgar Marcos Borjas – Alina Nowak (POL) and Paul Moldovan – Cristina Tatar (ROU), who ranked second and third, respectively. Armen and Svetlana continued having amazing scores as they received over 39 points in each dance of the final.
Brcko District (BIH) hosted World Open New Series Standard and Latin on Saturday. The reigning World Champions in Under 21 Standard Paul Rednic – Roxana Lucaciu (ROU) won the World Open New Series Standard, making it the first ever World Open win for the couple. Oleg Chzhen – Alina Ageeva (RUS) ranked second and Ergo Lukk – Baile Paris (EST) third.
The gold medals of the World Open New Series Latin were also awarded to a Romanian couple as Stefan Grigore – Laura Filipescu (ROU) secured their win over the home country favourites Giacomo Lazzarini – Michelle Nazarenus (BIH). Marek Bures – Anastasiia Iermolenko (CZE) ranked third.
In another exciting first for DanceSport, Breaking will feature on the programme for the inaugural edition of the World Urban Games (WUG) in Budapest this 13-15 September.
The World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) is thrilled to be part of this innovative new project organised by the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), which will also feature 3x3 basketball, BMX freestyle, flying disc freestyle, parkour and roller freestyle. In addition, indoor rowing and laser run will be on the programme as showcase sports.
The 1vs1 battles will take place over two days (Round Robin on 13 September and the knockout stage on 14 September), with 16 b-girls and 16 b-boys vying for a total purse of 100,000 USD – which will be split 50/50 as part of the WDSF’s commitment to gender equality in sport.
“It is an honour for the WDSF to take part in the first edition of the World Urban Games, as we feel it is a natural extension of the success of Breaking at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires last year,” said WDSF President Shawn Tay. “It will be an excellent new platform for b-boys and b-girls to showcase their talent and we look forward to a highly entertaining, first-class event in Budapest.”
Twenty-four breakers qualified from the recent 2019 WDSF World Breaking Championship in Nanjing. The rest of the field will be rounded out by three b-boys and b-girls from the Outbreak Europe event in Slovakia this 24-28 July, while the final two places have been allotted to dancers from the host country.
As an indication of Breaking’s popularity around the world, b-boys and b-girls representing 18 countries (JPN, USA, GER, CHN, GBR, BEL, BUL, KOR, RUS, POL, HUN, NED, UKR, VEN, FRA, CAN, EGY, MEX) have already qualified for the Games.
The WUG are designed to be the ultimate global showcase for urban sports, providing visitors with a rich mixture of sports, music and culture. The Games will also help to regenerate a part of southern Budapest that has been off limits to the public for many years: the site of the Great Market Hall, which first opened in 1932. The Hall will be used both as a competition venue and a concert hall and is situated next to the Danube River, which will provide the perfect backdrop for the Games.
Easily accessible from the city centre, the area is located next to the National Theater, the Palace of Arts and Budapest Park, making it a great spot for families and local university students to take in all the action, which will include numerous demonstration events for all ages and abilities.
“The World Urban Games programme for Budapest 2019 presents a global stage for emerging disciplines, as well as an opportunity for world-class athletes to demonstrate their abilities and for people in urban areas to take a proactive role in sport,” said GAISF President Raffaele Chiulli. “I have no doubt that the Hungarian capital will be the perfect arena.
“GAISF is working closely with the local organising committee and with our International Federations to ensure that the World Urban Games Budapest 2019 will be an incredible event that inspires a new generation of fans.”
Following the elections in 2015, Lina Chatkeviciute from Lithuania has been representing PD dancers in the WDSF Athletes’ Commission. During her term, PD Athletes have had several official and unofficial meetings, and many concerns and ideas of those meetings have been forwarded to the PD Management Board and the WDSF Athletes’ Commission.
Lina’s four-year term has come to an end in 2019 and after her retirement Sean Smullen from Ireland has been officially accepted as the new PD representative for the next four years.
Thank you Lina for the hard work you have done during the past four years, and welcome Sean as a new PD representative!
The only event of the week takes place in Oklahoma City (USA). A three-day event is a USA Dance national qualifying event with WDSF Open competitions on Friday and Saturday.
WDSF Open Senior II Standard and Latin will be competed on Friday. Saturday is filled with WDSF Open Youth Standard and Latin, WDSF Open Senior I Standard and Smooth, and WDSF Open Senior II Smooth.
Following the WDSF Adjudicators Congress for Salsa on September 5-6, WDSF Vice-President for Sports has announced WDSF Open Salsa to be held in Cali (COL) on September 8, 2019.
Salsa is one of the most popular dance styles worldwide. It has its origins in Cuba, and it has developed all across the Caribbean and Latin America.
Organized in collaboration with the Colombian DanceSport Federation, WDSF Open Salsa competition just two days after the WDSF Adjudicators Congress for Salsa is a milestone in developing and including more dance disciplines into WDSF ongoing daily activity.
WDSF Open Salsa takes place on Sunday, September 8 at Coliseo Evangelista Mora (Calle 5 B3 Carrera 34), Santiago de Cali. Both Salsa On One and Salsa On Two are on the programme.
A new, exciting first for DanceSport will take place in Belgrade (SRB) in October as the 2019 WDSF World Championship Disco Dance and WDSF Open Disco Dance will light up the Belexpocentar on Friday the 4th. The two events have been announced to the National Member Bodies earlier this week.
The WDSF World Championship has two age groups, Youth and Adult, with Solo and Duo categories in both age groups.
The WDSF Open categories in Youth and Adult age groups are Small Team, Big Team and Mega Team. In addition to the team categories, Juvenile and Junior age groups have also Solo and Duo categories.
All athletes must be members of their respective WDSF member organization and holders of an active WDSF e-Card. WDSF member bodies may nominate any number of athletes for the WDSF World Championship and the WDSF Open competitions.
- After two years of preparation we’ve now reached the very first milestone for the Disco Dance competitions in WDSF. Starting with a World Championship, having the best dancers from all members – that’s great. Adding a WDSF Open will also be great to show what Disco Dance is about and all dancers get their international competition arena. Let’s meet in Belgrade – competing for the gold and titles, said Mrs. Lena Arvidsson, Chair of the WDSF DanceSport Discipline Development Commission.
