Panels of Adjudicators Made Public
The Presidential Task Force to Combat Competition Manipulation (CCM TF) in DanceSport met in Vienna, AUT, on Sunday 20 November. In their second meeting since the task force was created earlier this...
View ArticleCoefficients Maintained
The pilots of the German airline Lufthansa are on the third day of a strike and more than 800 flights are grounded. This has an impact on DanceSport too. Adjudicators and couples are unable to get to...
View ArticleFarewell to World Champions
They are all here - for a change - and ready to do battle! Well, that is what everybody had thought until the day of the championship. In the end it didn't happen. But the 2016 WDSF PD World DanceSport...
View ArticleBy Reinhard Egli
Reinhard Egli, a Swiss dancer, photographer and editor of dance!, the Swiss DanceSport Magazine, wrote extensively on the topic of competition manipulation in his online publication.With his...
View ArticleManipulation In DanceSport
This second instalment of "Kampf gegen Manipulation" (Fight Against Manipulation) is also a translation of the author's original text. One passage has been omitted, however, as it makes reference to a...
View ArticlePart III
We hope that the three-part editorial by Reinhard Egli, a photographer (picture on the left), publisher and - as he emphasises - a "former" dancer who stopped 15 years ago, has triggered some...
View ArticlePeter Maxwell | Honorary Advisor
The Presidium of the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) has voted unanimously to appoint Mr Peter Maxwell as Honorary Advisor to the WDSF Adjudicators' Commission.In this capacity, Peter will able to...
View ArticleVimeo For Free | PD World Showdance
The race for first in the 2016 PD World Showdance Latin was between two "Refugees" and the duo "Super Mario and Princess Peach. But there were several other couples presenting great stories through...
View Article2016 World Ten Dance
Here it is: a 6-camera production in High Definition covering the decisive stages of the 2016 World Ten Dance!The programme is made up of six parts: the full-length semi-finals, interviews with the...
View ArticleFrom Moscow And From Pec
A live stream covering the 2016 WDSF PD World DanceSport Championship Latin in Moscow, RUS, should become available soon. We're waiting for the embedding code to be sent to us. Round one is scheduled...
View ArticleAndrey Zaytsev and Anna Kuzminskaya, RUS
It had all the traits of a déjà-vu! Here were two 2016 PD World Champions, still in the prime of their sporting lives, who had just been honoured with gold medals, flowers and a standing ovation that...
View ArticleMore Soon!
13 formation teams representing nine nations entered the 2016 World DanceSport Championship Formation Standard that was held on 4 December in Pecs, HUN. Maybe a few teams and countries less than in...
View ArticleTo The Rhythm of Time
The worldwide DanceSport community’s dream of providing some of its young top athletes with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete in the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is about to turn reality....
View ArticleWhat A Day!
It cannot be emphasised enough: that the announcement of DanceSport's inclusion into the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games and the formal opening of the governing body's new headquarters in...
View ArticleWashington Post
The news on Breakdance making it to the next edition of the Youth Olympics - which are held in Buenos Aires in October 2018 - spread rapidly far and wide.The information in media releases circulated by...
View ArticleReporting From Shanghai, CHN
We have barely had the time to celebrate all the positive developments in Lausanne, SUI, before we had to move on to Shanghai, CHN, for the next milestone events.Scheduled over this weekend are the two...
View ArticleThis Time With Ballots
The Italian DanceSport Federation (FIDS) has elected a new President in a second Extraordinary Assembly held in Rome in less than two months. On 15 December, Michele Barbone defeated Giovanni...
View Article2016 World Youth Latin Live
A live stream from the Baltic Grand Prix in the Latvian capital Riga will be available through this website on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 December. A player is embedded below. The highlight scheduled on...
View ArticleLive From Riga
Several hours of coverage from the Baltic Grand Prix in Riga, LAT, were broadcast yesterday. The atmosphere at the Kipsala International Exhibition Centre was excellent throughout all events, but the...
View ArticleAfter You Have Burned The Floor
It was a very good year for DanceSport, but like all good things, it has come to an end, with the last competitions concluded over the past weekend in Italy, Russia and Latvia. The last World Champions...
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