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Another Outstanding Production
The final of the 2016 GrandSlam Standard Hong Kong will be talked about for some time to come. As suspenseful as a round can get, it produced a total of four 10s going up as component scores for the...
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Adjudicators' Congress in Taipei, TPE
The WDSF DanceSport Academy under its chairman Shawn Tay held a three-day Adjudicators' Congress at the headquarters of the National Olympic Committee in Taipei, TPE. Close to 100 participants attended...
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Looking Forward To 2017 Wroclaw
Evaldas Sodeika and Ieva Zukauskaite, LTU, are the first DanceSport athletes to be featured in the "Looking Forward to The World Games 2017" campaign of the International World Games Association.The...
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Raising Awareness
Botswana DanceSport Association (BODANSA) public relations officer Ishmael Mhotsha said the dance competition targeted the youth including children from the age of five years.The dancers paricipated in...
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All The Happiness
After they won the 2015 World Championship Ten Dance in Chengdu, CHN, and their second consecutive world title, Miha Vodicar and Nadiya Bychkova, SLO, sort of faded away, without making an official...
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Russia Mourns
The entire Russian DanceSport community mourns the passing of Yury Simonov. Together with his partner Olga Mikhailovna he formed one of the first couples representing the USSR that excelled in...
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Back in Competition
As most of you already know, Nadiya became a mother this month. That is also the reason why we couldn't continue our dancing partnership. As for me, I decided to continue with my competing career. I...
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Star Couples
397 couples have entered the 2016 World DanceSport Championship Senior III Standard, making it the biggest ever.Scheduling for a championship with that many participants is not easy, but dancing it...
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From Wuppertal, GER
This year it was the 13th edition of the DanceComp in the historical town hall in Wuppertal. It is meanwhile tradition that beside the WDSF World Open STD and LAT many national competitions of all...
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Latin Rhythms in Rimini
It comes unseasonally late, but it comes at long last: the 2016 European Latin. It was supposed to happen in Paris this spring, now it has been moved to summer and the Adriatic Riviera.As a consequence...
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Vimeo on Demand
Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus, MDA, won their first European title in a spectacular final. Runners-up were Marius-Andrei Balan - Khrystyna Moshenska, GER, who left last year's European Champions,...
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2016 Sportdance Continued
While the 2016 European Latin and the World Senior III Standard were in progress in the "Tricolore" pavilion, the athletes of the World Rock 'n' Roll Confederation (WRRC) competed in adjacent pavilion...
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One Year Away
Dmitry Zharkov and Olga Kulikova, RUS, are one of the Standard couples looking forward to The World Games 2017 that will be held from 20 to 30 July in Wroclaw, POL. DanceSport (Latin, Rock 'n' Roll,...
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DanceSport Meets Pokemon
For a number of years, DanceSport BC has been organising weekly open-air DanceSport lessons at the Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, CAN, throughout the summer. The event usually draws hundreds of...
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Seven Years Ago
The World Games 2009 Kaohsiung were an important milestone for DanceSport and WDSF - which was still conducting business as IDSF at the time. They were also a highly memorable event for all of...
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New Medical Commission Members
In a vote taken electronically on 25 July, the members of the WDSF Presidium unanimously approved the addition of two new members to the Medical Commission. Dr Thomas Quinton, AUT, and Helena...
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Cali Did It Again!
The 2016 Pan American DanceSport Championships and the "To The Rhythm of the Sky" Opens were held concurrently on 30 and 31 Juli in the Colombian city of Cali. Between the two events, dancers from 17...
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New USA Dance President
Peter Pover, who had assumed the presidency of USA Dance for a third time after the resignation of previous office holder Yang Chen in the later part of 2015, stepped down on 31 July 2016. He...
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There Is Still Time!
The organisers of the German Open Championship have extended the period for couples to enter the nearly 40 competitions scheduled between 9 and 13 August at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart.Online...
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An Open Letter
Dear Athletes,I refer you to a news item that our Communications team has published on worlddancesport.org yesterday. According to “There Is Still Time,” the deadline to register for the upcoming...
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