Ten Years After
Almost all of the WDSF PD World Champions in Standard were in attendance in Prague, CZE, to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of professional dancing within the structures of this federation. It all...
View ArticleDanceSport in the 2017 AIMAG
2017 marks the second time that the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games are held under this inclusive brand. It was launched with the 2013 edition in Incheon, KOR. Prior to that, the Asian Indoor Games...
View ArticleTrivium Value System
After it had done so for Latin and Standard over the past ten years, the World DanceSport Federation collaborated once more with experts and software engineers to develop a judging system for top-tier...
View ArticleBOTY Central Europe
B-Boy Spin, GBR, won the final against B-Boy Dosu, USA, at the Battle of the Year (BOTY) Central Europe, which was held as a BOTY qualifier in Zurich on 23 September. This made it Spin's second...
View Article2017 Ashgabat
With every single dance contested as a separate medal event and with Salsa thrown in for good measure, gold, silver and bronze were under inflationary pressure at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts...
View Article2017 Ashgabat
Overall, 110 athletes representing 18 National Olympic Committees danced in eleven medal events at the 2017 Ashgabat Indoor and Martial Art Games (AIMAG). One third of all participants left...
View ArticleWDSF E-Card
WDSF goes digital and takes its identity card system to a new level. Ever since 2012, the registration for sanctioned competitions and the publication of their results benefitted from the introduction...
View ArticleNew e-Card II
E-ID stands for the latest concept that WDSF embraces to serve the community. To start with, the e-Card is simply a digital replacement for the plastic Athlete's ID Card that all dancers within the...
View ArticleBoogie and Bug
The World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) has been producing coverage on the premier DanceSport events held under its auspices - and that of its Associate Members - for the past eight years. It started...
View ArticleBoogie Woogie Formation
In contrast to the "storytelling" clips of 60 seconds duration, "The Final Reel" is the 30-minute multi-camera account of the 2017 WRRC Boogie Woogie Formation final danced on 7 October at the Palais...
View ArticleComing Up: YOG Qualifier
Sunday 22 October 2017 will see the second of three WDSF Continental Qualifiers take place in the Gruga Hall in Essen, GER. The day following the "Battle of the Year," quite possible the biggest and...
View ArticlePress Release: Braeking for Gold in Essen
In just under 12 months, 12 b-boys and 12-b-girls will be “BREAKING for GOLD” at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) for the first time in history. Next Sunday, 22 October, around 150 breakers from Europe...
View ArticlePress Release: Breaking for Gold in Essen
In just under 12 months, 12 b-boys and 12-b-girls will be “BREAKING for GOLD” at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) for the first time in history. Next Sunday, 22 October, around 150 breakers from Europe...
View ArticleWorld Ten Dance | Vimeo on Demand
It was the 42nd edition of a World Championship in DanceSport's decathlon that was contested in Marseille FRA, on 8 October. 36 couples entered and six made it to the final: Dumitru Doga - Sarah...
View ArticleThe Short Story
On an event that the WDSF Communications team covers with clips on indiviual couples in preliminary rounds going up on YouTube, the website and elsewhere, and with the comprehensive television and...
View ArticleIt's NADB Too!
WDSF President Lukas Hinder is on his way to the Nethlerlands to personally deliver the congratulatory message of the World DanceSport Federation to the Dutch Member Body NADB on the occasion of the...
View Article2017 PD World Latin
Who will be the successors to the legendary WDSF PD World Champions Andrey Zaytsev and Anna Kuzminskaya, RUS, who danced their last championship in Moscow, RUS, in December 2016?Two names come to mind:...
View ArticleFrom The Battleground
WDSF figured that some 150 b-boys and b-girls, who had qualified on the basis of the video they had submitted in Stage One of BREAKING for GOLD, would make their way to Essen, GER.As had happened in...
View ArticleFollow It Everywhere!
32 b-boys and 16 b-girls have made it past the Preselection Phase and are battling in the Round Robin shortly. Get their names in the respective photographs posted on the BREAKING for GOLD social...
View ArticleB-Girl Matina and B-Boy Bumblebee
That Russia would send strong contenders to Essen, GER, was clear from the moment that the BREAKING for GOLD judges selected five b-boys and five b-girls on the basis of the videos that they had...
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