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Skype The Prez | The Pilot
In a video that was recorded after the European Standard in Wroclaw, POL, Ashli Williamson, the chair of the WDSF Athletes' Commission, asks President Lukas Hinder about his career as a dancer, his...
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On The Summit Of America
"Dancing on the Summit of America" was the tagline for the inaugural edition of the Bolivia Open that was danced two weeks ago in the capital La Paz.Nearly 200 dancers from Brazil, Chile, Mexico,...
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2016 GrandSlam Hong Kong
The GrandSlam Hong Kong takes place over the upcoming weekend, with the Latin scheduled on Saturday 4 and the Standard on Sunday 5 June.As they do every year in the lead-up to the event, the organisers...
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M Mark Event
For the third consecutive time the Hong Kong DanceSport Association has been able to qualify the GrandSlam as one of the select "M" mark events.The Hong Kong Government considers a limited number of...
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Live from Hong Kong
To merely say that this GrandSlam Latin Hong Kong is well attended would be an understatement. Some 70 couples have entered the third leg of the 2016 Series as of 31 May. Among them is each and every...
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Live from Hong Kong II
Even if overall participation is slightly lower than for the GrandSlam Latin, the GrandSlam Standard Hong Kong matches the latter when it comes to the density of top-ranked couples. Only three out of...
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Harri Syväsalmi Joins Task Force
Six weeks ago, WDSF President Lukas Hinder made his intention to create a Presidential Task Force to combat competition manipulation in DanceSport known. He did so in a letter to his colleagues on the...
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Vimeo on Demand
With four consecutive wins in GrandSlam competition and with a World Champion title to one’s credit, it should get easier to get the motivation up to train day after day. When we talked to Gabriele...
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Team Building
Behind the veil of secrecy and unbeknownst to anybody other than the parties involved, the German National Teams in football and in DanceSport (Standard Formation) met on a dance floor in...
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The Menu
First Vice-President Jim Fraser presented the delegates to this year's General Meeting in Rome, ITA, with the new WDSF Sustainability Policy during the Open Forum.The policy comes in form of a quality...
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Italian People Love DanceSport
An official address by the Secretary General of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) provides a welcome interlude to the many items on the agenda of the 2016 WDSF General Meeting in Rome,...
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Discourse by Leena Liusvaara
The delegates to the 2016 General Meeting unanimously approved the work carried out by the WDSF Presidium during the 12 months since the 2015 General Meeting held in Granada, ESP. They did so following...
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New Standards In Publishing
In a landmark decision, the delegates to the 2016 General Meeting approved a motion presented by the 2020 VISION Working Group to adopt two documents that will forthwith govern WDSF publishing.After...
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With Overwhelming Majorities
The delegates to the 2016 General Meeting elected Lukas Hinder, Jim Fraser and Tommy Shaughnessy to the positions of President, First Vice-President and Presidium Member, respectively.The elections to...
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Trinidad and Tobago
In a moving address to the 2016 General Meeting in Rome, ITA, Declan Hive, the current delegate from Trinidad and Tobago, remembered his predecessor, Carl Edwards, who had passed away recently.Hive...
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WDSF Letter to RDSU
In a letter dated 13 June 2016 and sent by e-mail to the attention of the President of the Russian DanceSport Union (RDSU), the WDSF General Secretary reminds the colleagues at RDSU of the General...
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CEO Jean-Laurent Bourquin
After the 2016 General Meeting had approved the budgetary allocations to establish new headquarters in the Olympic capital Lausanne, the WDSF Presidium defined a new management structure by creating...
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Democracy At Work
The 2016 General Meeting (AGM) as well as the other meetings associated with it produced the outcomes that were anticipated and that will make DanceSport better.We are all here for this one reason: the...
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Russian Dancers Don’t Worry!
Ashli Williamson, the Chair of the WDSF Athletes' Commission, issued a statement immediately after the 2016 General Meeting had passed the motion to expel the Member Body for Russia. Her statement has...
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2016 GrandSlam Standard Hong Kong
It was one of the most emotionally charged competitions in recent times: the 2016 GrandSlam Standard Hong Kong that was danced on 5 June at the MacPherson Stadium in Kowloon, HKG. The 90-minute Vimeo...
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