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News (May 2013)

Blackpool 2013 - Under21 Latin

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The finals of the Under21 Latin were finished and results were announced at around midnight. All the seven finalist couples looked and danced very well. It was a convincing victory for Ilya Sizov and Yulia Koshkina from Russia. They were placed 1st in all the dances. The second place went to the Danish couple Petar Daskalov and Christine Hojm...

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Blackpool 2012 - Team Match

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The Professional Team Match of 4 teams was held this evening: USA, Great Britain, Europe and Australasia. The USA team won, Europe came second, followed by Great Britain and Australasia. It was a very convincing victory for USA this year - they defended their title from last year. There was a fight between Europe and Great Britain for the se...

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Sonny Jin Zhang and Cher Wen Qingluo retire from competitions

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After a long career which lasted more that 13 years Sonny Jin Zhang & Cher Wen Qingluo decided to retire from competitive dancing. They have announced their decision today, right after dancing the Team Match representing Australasia at the Blackpool Dance Festival. For the last 10 years they were the top Chinese Professional Latin c...

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Blackpool 2013 - Friday finals

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Senior Ballroom The first final of this year's Blackpool Dance Festival was Senior Ballroom. The winners were Pierre Payen and Isabelle Reyjal from France. They were the strongest couple overall, they won the Waltz and the Tango and were 3rd in the other dances. Second place went to David Wright and Liva Wright from USA. David and Liv...

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Ruslan and Olena Golovashchenko retire from competitive dancing

Posted on Friday, 24 May 2013, 20:57 by admin | 0 comment/s
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After 17 years of dancing together Ruslan Golovashchenko and Olena Golovashchenko decided to retire from competitive dancing. They were six time Ukrainian Professional Ballroom champions and 4th at the World Professional Ballroom (IPDSC division). Ruslan and Olena were placed 3rd in World and 2nd in European Classic Showdance. They were in the ...

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Andrea de Angelis & Frederikke Flyvbjerg Nørgaard split

Posted on Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 22:41 by admin | 0 comment/s
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We are sorry to inform that one of Denmark's top Latin couples Andrea de Angelis & Frederikke Flyvbjerg Nørgaard has decided to terminate their successful partnership. The decision was taken due to personal differences between Andrea and Frederikke but both wish to continue on the highest level and are both available for try o...

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Chrisanne and Swarovski Elements shine bright at the Blackpool Dance Festival 2013

Posted on Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 13:09 by admin | 0 comment/s
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Date 09/05/13 Prepare to be dazzled at this year’s Blackpool Dance Festival as CHRISANNE and SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS join forces to create a spectacular customer experience celebrating over 25 years of collaboration in dance sport. CHRISANNE will be unveiling a spectacular new stand which will incorporate a stylish SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS inspir...

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Rudiger Homm and Viktorjia Triscuka split

Posted on Monday, 20 May 2013, 10:49 by admin | 1 comment/s
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We have receive news from Rudiger Homm and Viktorjia Triscuka that they decided to split up. They represented Germany in Professional Ballroom. They were German Professional Ballroom vice-champions. They represented their country at the World and European championships organised by the WDC federation. See their results and photos. Rudiger wr...

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Dancesportinfo subject to hackers attack which resulted in competition data loss

Posted on Saturday, 18 May 2013, 22:46 by admin | 1 comment/s
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As you probably noticed, for the first time in over 11 years, our site was down for 3 days. The problem looked simple at first. It seemed one of many of our data servers had a hardware issue and crashed. These things happen occasionally and we were prepared for such occasion. The estimated downtime was 1 hour. This was last Wednesday, at 4pm. Af...

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Live broadcast from Blackpool Dance Festival 2013

Posted on Sunday, 05 May 2013, 20:45 by admin | 0 comment/s
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Blackpool Dance Festival starts in just under three weeks. Many people are unable to come to Blackpool to watch the festival but there is a next best thing now - DSI will provide a live broadcast from the Blackpool Dance Festival live this year. You be able to watch the Amateur and Professional Ballroom and Latin competitions as they happen....

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