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A Bright Orange!
Orange County Dancesport 2015
Report by Didio Barrera
Photos by Charles Ryder Photography
The Orange County Dancesport Challenge, shone brightly this year with terrific competition for everyone. It was also the last stop before the finale of the Professional Star Ballroom Tour and so there was excitement for everyone participating, including the audience.
Chicago Harvest Moon On The Rise!
Report by Keith Todd
Photos by Alliance Consulting
This year the Chicago Harvest Moon Ball, organized by Peter Minkov & Yulia Kornilova showed quite an upswing in entries, pulling in over 5,000. It was also at a new venue, the Westin Hotel, close to O’Hare Airport.
The Time I Got Leid at a Competition!!
Hawai’i Star Ball 2015
Report by Chantal Leclerc
Photography by Park West
Now that I have your attention let me tell you how it happened. There were a lot of us as well, adjudicators, professional dancers, and pro/am students, all getting leid by David Alvarez, the competition organizer, as we entered the luau on the lush grounds of the Sheraton Waikiki Beach. As a traditional welcome to Hawaii, beautiful orchid leis were distributed to everybody.
Autumn in San Francisco!
The Autumn Dance Classic 2015
Report by Keith Todd
Photos by DanceSport Photography
This was the fourth year that Jonathan Wilkins and Olga Foroponova have been at the helm of the San Francisco Autumn Dance Classic, one of California’s venerable and older events. This was also its fourth year at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Airport. The event was held Oct 16 to Oct 18.
US Open Pro-Am Scholarships
Report by Keith Todd
Photographs done by Mary Tweeddale
A1 Ballroom
All the A1 finals in the Open to the World Championship Scholarships were danced at night. The winner in this A1 Ballroom was Natalie Rezai w/ Sergey Kiselev 1,1,1,1,3. This lady has been one of the most successful competitors in this division over the last year. I found her dancing very powerful today.
2015 United States National Professional International Ballroom Championship
Report by Kristiina Ilo
Photography by Mary Tweeddale
It has been a privilege to be part of this wonderful competitonfor so many years -‐ as a competitorand as well as an adjudicator. Congratulationsto Mr. Wayne Eng andthe American Ballroom Company for organizing yet another NationalChampionship which excels not just with the amount of entries and competitors,from kids to Pro-am and Open Professional events, but also with the quality of dancing that has been getting so much stronger every year.
Open to the World Cabaret
Report by Brad Stein
Photography by Mary Tweeddale
It was a great honor to be a Guest Judge at this years World Cabaret Championships. Having won the United States and World Championships in 2003 myself, I took great pride in Judging this Event. In my opinion there should have been a semi-final in the afternoon as it started out with 14 couples and 11 couples actually danced. Only the top 7 couples actually should have been dancing in a World Event on the Saturday Night at The Official United States Dancesport Championships in a World Class final. It would take a lot of guts and wishful thinking on the 4 couples who did decide they were worthy.
US National Professional Smooth Championship
Report by Jonathan Roberts
Photography by Mary Tweeddale
Huge congratulations to Wayne, Martin and ABC for organizing another fantastic USDC.