IWGA Executive
The General Meeting of the International World Games Association (IWGA) in Belek, TUR, elected Lukas Hinder, the WDSF First Vice-President, to the position of Treasurer.Serving his fifth consecutive...
View ArticleEmanuel Valeri - Tania Kehlet, DEN
Emanuel Valeri - Tania Kehlet, DEN, perform their last dance of honour as amateurs in front of their hometown supporters and students in Aarhus, DEN, on 5 April. It was an emotional moment for the...
View ArticleLive from Belek ...
The World DanceSport Federation attends the 2014 edition of the SportAccord Convention in full force.Eva Bartunkova, the President of the Czech DanceSport Federation, and Ashli Williamson of the...
View ArticleSportAccord Report I
At the end of the first day of the SportAccord meetings in Belek/Antalya, Turkey ...It proved to be a long day filled with many presentations, voting rounds, elections - and not without the feeling...
View ArticleSportAccord Report II
There are quite a few women athletes to be met at SportAccord. Here you have Charmaine Crooks, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Alessia Trost - former and current world champions in athletics - taking a selfie...
View ArticleSportAccord Report III
Today was a little different in agenda, we had more private meetings with a variety of different people to promote DanceSport as apposed to attending Annual General Meetings of associations.There was a...
View ArticleComing Soon
Extensive post-production work is soon coming to an end and the date of release for the official World DanceSport Games 2013 Kaohsiung documentary is finally approaching.The World DanceSport Federation...
View ArticleSportAccord Report IV
Today was our final day at the SportAccord convention 2014. One particular meeting was most informative. It was the Youth in Sports open forum.After the IOC launched the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in...
View ArticleLive from Aarhus, DEN
The WDSF Communications team has uploaded another 20 videos that were recorded last weekend in Aarhus, DEN, to the blog on the 2014 European.One of these videos is of Martino Zanibellato - Michelle...
View ArticleOlga Konovaltseva
Olga Konovaltseva danced together with Sergey Konovaltsev, her brother and the only partner of her career, for 22 years. Olga recently announced her retirement from competition after excelling in...
View ArticleStrictly Ballroom
The movie that made for Hollywood taking a blockbuster look at the world of DanceSport in the early 1990s, Strictly Ballroom, has been adapted to the theatrical stage by its director, Australian Baz...
View ArticleThe World Games
The International World Games Association (IWGA) held its General Meeting concurrently with the SportAccord Convention last week in Belek, TUR.worlddancesport.org reported on the outcome of the...
View ArticleLive from Cambrils
After last year's European Champions in Youth Standard were crowned in Cambrils, ESP, it is the turn of 57 couples competing in Youth Latin to determine their champions here too.The 2014 European Youth...
View ArticleEconomically Sound
Cambrils is at the heart of one of the most touristic areas in all of Spain. Together with Taragona, Salou and other resort towns it provides the infrastructure to the stretch of Mediterranean...
View ArticleVideos Restored
The videos that were produced to promote the Technique Books are back up on the WDSF DanceSport Academy's YouTube channel.Quite a few dancers have asked over the past weeks whether and when the videos...
View ArticleNews From The Island
Two World Championships are staged as part of the traditional Mallorca DanceSport Challenge this year. One is the 2014 World Senior IV Standard, the other is the 2014 World U-21 Latin.Nearly 200...
View ArticleTwo Live Webcasts
The organisers of Magic Dance 2014 in Riga, LAT, opt for the extroverted approach in staging their events on 1 and 2 May. For two International Opens and two Junior II Opens they have lined up Latvian...
View Article2014 World Latin on 5 October
It is only by one day, but the change of date for the 2014 World DanceSport Championship Latin in Ostrava, CZE, should be duly noted.WDSF Sports Director Marco Sietas informed all National Member...
View ArticleDanceSport ... Baile Deportivo ... Танцевального ...
Since 2007, the WDSF television partner IEC in Sports distrubutes every year a 5-part series on World and European Championships to broadcasters around the world. It was decided last year to upgrade...
View ArticleCourtesy of Magic Dance 2014
Latvian broadcaster BEST 4 SPORT TV produces a live webcast of the International Open Standard and two other competitions that are held as part of Magic Dance 2014 in Riga, LAT.Today from 16:00...
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