An Unqualified Success
Not even our distributors in the U.S. had expected that airing the World DanceSport GrandSlam Series would end up being the overwhelming success that it was."Six one-hours can be tough for stations to...
View Article2017 Wroclaw, POL
The World Games, the quadrennial multi-sport games featuring over 30 different sports and bringing together more than 4,000 athletes for ten days of top-level competition, will be held in Wroclaw, POL....
View ArticleJaak Vainomaa and Taina Savikurki
Jaak Vainomaa and Taina Savikurki, the winners of the 2016 World Championship Ten Dance in Vienna, AUT, were on the ballot for the Finnish "Sports Personalities of the Year" award when the voting by...
View ArticleWhere Are We Now ...
From 15 February 2017, the 89 National Members Bodies will be called upon to provide extensive information on the DanceSport activities in their countries as well as on their governance of them.The...
View ArticleMore Work Is Waiting
Lukas Hinder, the WDSF President, welcomed his fellow members of the executive to the first of three days of meetings held in Barcelona, ESP, with insipring words on the most recent developments in...
View ArticleFive Things
Three new sports - DanceSport, karate and sport climbing - were added to the 28 already on the programme of the third edition of the Youth Olympic Games in early December 2016. Of the three, climbing...
View ArticleFinding Its Place
Two years after DanceSport Europe (DSE) was founded in Stuttgart, GER, to promote the European perspective on the sport, a small delegation made up of the DSE President and Vice-President, Luis Vaño...
View ArticleResignation: Marco Sietas
Following the conclusion of the WDSF Presidium Meetings held at Barcelona, Spain on January 21-22, 2017, WDSF President Lukas Hinder announced today that WDSF has entered into an agreement under which...
View ArticleTommy Shaughnessy
During its regular Winter Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, on January 21-22, 2017, the WDSF Presidium voted to appoint Tommy Shaughnessy, 58, of Dublin, Ireland to a newly-created employment position in...
View ArticleMichael Eichert
His fellow members on the WDSF Presidium voted Second Vice-President Michael Eichert unanimously to assume the chair of the Sports Commission that was left vacant after the resignation of former...
View ArticleIOC in 2017 Wroclaw
The start of The World Games 2017 Wroclaw is only 6 months away. In a press release dated 23 January 2017, the International World Games Association (IWGA) announces that IOC President Thomas Bach will...
View ArticleAshgabat 2017
Together with 20 other sports, DanceSport is also on the programme of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games (AIMAG) that will be held from 17 to 27 September in Ashgabat, TKM.These games are held...
View ArticleFarewell To Champions I
On 4 December in Moscow, RUS, Andrey Zaytsev and Anna Kuzminskay, the newly crowned 2016 PD World Champions Latin, stepped down from the podium and announced their immediate retirement from DanceSport...
View Article2017 Tyumen Open Live
No, this time it's not Formation DanceSport that is brought to you live from the cold of Siberia. Two WDSF Opens are scheduled on Saturday (Standard) and Sunday (Latin) in Tyumen, RUS.The Tyumen Time...
View ArticleUNDISPUTED From Prague
The Undisputed World B-Boy Series is a combined effort of different events, which for many years have all produced their own accredited champions.Since 2014 the solo B-Boy champions of these events...
View ArticleLive from Tyumen
A live stream is also available today from the WDSF Open Latin and several other competitions taking place in Tyumen, RUS. The Tyumen Time offers you this live webcast with coverage of all the action...
View ArticleB-Boy Thesis | Undisputed Champion
WDSF Communications was present at the Undisputed Masters in Prague, CZE, to soak up the atmosphere around the Cypher and to watch the battles for the supreme title. By the time the final came around,...
View ArticleEmanuel Valeri - Tania Kehlet, DEN
The farewell from competition of Emanuel Valeri and Tania Kehlet turned into a highly emotional affair at the Ceres Arena in Aarhus, DEN. Above all for the two fabulous dancers who concluded their...
View Article2016 Team of the Year
Again, it was not meant to be: after Jefferson Benjumea - Adriana Avila, COL, Aniello Langella - Khrystyna Moshenska, ITA, and Dmitry Zharkov - Olga Kulikova, RUS, the DanceSport representatives in the...
View ArticleCarnivalistic DanceSport
Everybody knows that dance is one of the principal ingredients of the Carnival in Brazil. Above all in the Sambadrome of Rio de Janeiro, members of the samba schools parade by the hundreds of...
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