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Patricia Goh is a professional ballroom dancer specialize in International Style Standard, Latin and 10 Dance. Patricia is former Canadian Ontario Amateur Standard and Ontario Adult Ten Dance Champions, North American Professional Rising Star Standard Vice Champions. Patricia is National Adjudicator, the Chairperson of Adjudicators at recent WDSF World Under 21 Standard and World Cup Ten Dance Championships.
Patrick Johnson is a former Ballroom dancer, holding such titles as United Kingdom and European Amateur Latin Champion. He is currently a world class adjudicator, owner of Dancing on the Suncoast and the co-organizer of the Sapphire Ball as well as the Gator Classic Championships.
Paul Holmes is a former Professional Ballroom dancer specializing in International Standard. Renowned dance professional and adjudicator, Paul holds such titles as British National Champion, UK National Champion & World Cup Champion in the Standard division.
Paul Killick is a former British Professional Ballroom Dancer, specializing in International Style Latin. A 4-time British National Professional Latin Champion, Paul is the organizer of The Killick Klassik DanceSport Event in Palm Beach, Florida and The Killick Royale Championships in London, England.
The Pavane (pavan, paven, pavin, pavian, pavine, or pavyn) is a slow, majestic, processional dance that originated in Italy around 1508, common in Europe aristocracies during the 16th and 17th centuries (Renaissance).
The Peabody, which took its name in America, was known as the Quickstep in England. It is a Ballroom Dance that evolved from the fast Foxtrot of the ragtime era of the 1910s and 1920s.
Peter Maxwell, former World Amateur and Professional Latin American Champion, is a renowned principal coach to some of the most successful couples in the history of dancing. He is the only coach who has ever had direct input with World Champions in Standard and Latin simultaneously. Honorary Life President of DanceSport England and the WDSF Professional Division, Peter has served as the Chairman of Judges for the Blackpool Dance Festival as well as the WDSF GrandSlam Series.
Petr Horáček is the current President of the Slovak DanceSport Federation. A former Champion of the World Cup and German Open Championships (GOC) in Argentine Tango, as well as a World Cup Salsa Champion, Petr is also a world-renowned choreographer. He has choreographed over 300 compositions presented in 11 regions of the world and has won more than 50 Slovak and 21 Czech Republic Choreography Champion Titles in Creative Formation & Seque/Freestyle.
Phillip Stephens is a former ballroom dancer, was the 1989 Eastern United States American Smooth Champion. Organizer of the "Transplant Games of America Ballroom" Dance Competition.
Pierre Allaire is a former professional ballroom dancer specialize in 10 dance, International Standard and Latin. 12 times Canadian Professional Ten-Dance Champion. Co-organizer of Danse Sport Montréal.
Polina Pilipenchuk, originally from Belarus, is a former Professional Ballroom Dancer who specializes in the 10-Dance, Standard and Latin divisions. She is a 2-time U.S. National Professional 10-Dance Champion, organizer of the Atlantic DanceSport Challenge, as well as the director of her own dance studio, Atlantic Ballroom.
The Polka is a Central European dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.
The Polonaise is a dance of Polish origin danced in 3/4 time. Its name is French for "Polish."
The Prague Open Dance Festival is a sanctioned 2-day Czech Dance Sport Federation (CDSF) competition hosted annually in Prague, Czech Republic. Recognized by the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF), the competition is held at the middle of September, at the beginning of the DanceSport season - a good jump start for couples, judges, and coaches alike.
The Professional Division of DanceSport is a competitive division of Ballroom Dancing. A Professional is a member of a profession or is any person who earns their living from a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.
The Quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies. Performed by four couples in a rectangular formation dance, it is related to American square dancing.
The Quickstep is one of the five International Style Standard Ballroom Dances. The movement of the dance is fast and powerfully flowing, sprinkled with syncopation. The upbeat melodies that Quickstep is danced to make it suitable for both formal and informal events.
Ray Rivers's dancing career has spanned over 60 years as an Amateur and Professional competitor, instructor, adjudicator and dance promoter. A protégé of Walter Laird, Ray was a recipient of the J. Sandy Award of Australia, a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Pursuit of Excellence in Ballroom Dancing.
