From Russia With Love
The 400 dancers who represented the Russian DanceSport Union during the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Sochi, RUS, can take pride in having been part of a memorable and very favourably commented...
View ArticleRDSU Shares Top Billing
The ceremony showcased Russian ballet, with performances by Diana Vishneva, the star soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet, by Svetlana Zakharova, a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet; and by Ivan...
View ArticleVISION Continues
What stands for clearsightedness in optometry has become programme for the World DanceSport Federation.2020 VISION is the new strategic planning process that pursues as its ovverriding aim to bring...
View ArticleArtistic Sports
That performances in DanceSport are assessed by a panel of judges lies in the nature of things. That many of the skiing and snowboarding events on the Olympic Programme are also judged - and not timed,...
View ArticleDanceSport in Southern Africa
The Italian trainer Giovanni Chiapperini travelled to Botswana in the beginning of January to work with a number of countries in the region on developing DanceSport further.Representatives of...
View Article2014 GrandSlam Tallinn, EST
Tallinn will be the first stop of this tour around the world that is the WDSF GrandSlam Series 2014.The hosts and organisers in the Estonian capital are confident that they will successfully launch the...
View ArticleShowdonw in Shanghai
The first leg of the WDSF GrandSlam Series 2014 in Tallinn, EST, is exactly one week away. On Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 January you will see the world's top couples in Latin and Standard return to the...
View ArticleStandard Showdown in Shanghai
To gear up for this year's GrandSlam action coming at you from Tallinn, EST, watch the 2013 GrandSlam Standard Finalissima from Shanghai, CHN!Below is the 52-minute television highlight covering the...
View ArticleIce Dancing in 2014 Sochi
Ice Dance has been on the Olympic Programme since 1976, the year it premiered at the Winter Games in Innsbuck, AUT.In its current format, the competition is divided into the Short Dance and the Free...
View ArticleAdjudicators Anonymous
After result fixing in ice dance was exposed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Like City, USA, the International Skating Union (ISU) set out to reform its judging.Prior to Torino 2006 it adopted a...
View Article2013 World Ten Dance | The TV Highlight
2013 World Ten Dance | The TV HighlightWorld DanceSport FederationSUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/J1Q1WyThe 52-minute highlights programme of the 2013 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Ten Dance in Vienna -...
View ArticleLive from Tallinn, EST
The "Live from Tallinn, EST" blog is up and running, bringing you coverage of the GrandSlam Standard on 22 Fevruary and the GrandSlam Latin on 23 February in the nearly real-time fashion that you have...
View Article#JoinUs
The Press Coordinator of the EUROVISION Song Contest approached WDSF with the following proposal.Do you like to dance?Do you want to be part of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014?Go to joinus.dk on your...
View ArticleTwo Premieres in Tallinn
WDSF Sports Director Marco Sietas and software developer Olav Groehn used the two months between the GrandSlam finals in Shanghai and the first leg in Tallinn to refine the WDSF Judging System 2.0...
View ArticleDanceSport in Sochi 2014
After hundreds of dancers casted by the Russian DanceSport Union (RUDSU) were involved in the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics already, many of them got to repeat in the closing...
View Article2014 GS Latin Tallinn | The Semi-Final Reel
In addition to two one-hour television programmes that will soon be broadcast in a number of countries, our editor completed the first Semi-Final Reel too.Here is the entire semi-final of the 2014...
View ArticleThe Tallinn Standard Semi-Final
Here is the entire semi-final of the 2014 GrandSlam Latin Tallinn on 23 February. The production is courtesy of the Tallinn TV and the Estonian DanceSport Association.WDSF Communications team member...
View ArticleDWTS: Keep Dancing
"Dancing With The Stars" (DWTS) is a hugely successful television property in many countries around the world. Originally created by the BBC, it is currently licensed to approximately 50 countries and...
View ArticleCancellations in Ukraine
In a message to the WDSF Sports Director, Boris Deich, the President of the All-Ukrainian DanceSport Federation, asked for the upcoming European DanceSport Championship in Uzhgorod to be cancelled.For...
View ArticleCambrils, ESP, for European Ten Dance
Spanish organiser Antonio Mas saved the day. After the 2014 European Ten Dance had to be cancelled in Uzhgorod, UKR, due to the tensions in that country, Mas stepped up and offered to host the...
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