The WDSF World DanceSport Games refer to an event hosted by the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) that features top-level competition alongside cultural programs, galas and celebrations, uniting the different forms and styles of dance in a multi-disciplinary event. The WDSF World DanceSport Games were first held in Kaohsiung, TPE, from the 16th to the 20th of September 2013.
Contradanza is a 19th-century Cuban salon and popular dance and music genre often mistaken abroad as habanera, but which denotes Havana-style contradanza in addition to an earlier style of contradanza: namely, a Spanish line dance popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries thought to come from an older English "country dance" (thus the Spanish corruption of the name). It was Franco-Haitian slaves seeking refuge in Oriente in the 1790s, however, not the Spanish, who introduced the genre to island, in the form of the French contredanse.
Although rhythmically tame by contemporary Afro-Cuban standards, the contradanza was scandalously syncopated for its time because it represented one of the earliest obvious entrances of African rhythm into Cuban music salons which had until then been a venue for strictly European forms like waltzes, quadrilles and schottisches. Previously, European instruments, melodies and harmonies had worked their way into the musical practices of Cuban slaves, but no such reversal of musical influence had been so strong until the appearance of the contradanza.
While the Cuban contradanza was well-established by the turn of the 19th century, the earliest surviving example is "San Pascual Bailón," which dates from 1803.
West Coast Swing as a synonym for "Western swing" appears in a 1961 dance book, and was used in an advertisement by Skippy Blair in 1962 but wasn't incorporated into mainstream swing circles until the late 1960s. Blair credits Jim Bannister, editor of the Herald American newspaper in Downey, California, for suggesting the name "West Coast Swing".
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The City DanceSport Challenge is an annual NDCA sanctioned DanceSport competition held at the Altman Building in New York City since 2011, organized by Paul Holmes and Jamie Nyemchek.
Wheelchair DanceSport is a partner dance competition and Dancesport where at least one of the dancers is in a wheelchair.
Christine McDonald is a former Professional ballroom dancer, specializing in International Style Standard. With husband Brian McDonald, she is a former 3-time Scottish National Amateur Champion, a 3-time European Professional Standard finalist, a European Professional Standard runner-up, as well as a 4-time United States National Professional Standard Champion. Christine has also been one of the organizers of the Embassy Ballroom Championships (Embassy Ball) since 1980 and has been inducted into the Millennium DanceSport Championships Hall of Fame in 2012.
This list of key WikiDanceSport guidelines is a summary of the most important guidelines that are currently in use.
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified. It is the act of designing dance.
The World Dance Council Education Department (WDCED) is an educational organization arranged under the World Dance Council to inspire, stimulate and promote excellence in education in DanceSport educators, coaches, adjudicators and dancers through instruction, development of knowledge, and understanding of the history of past Ballroom legends and endeavors.
The Cha Cha Cha originated in Cuba in the early 1950s and refers to a style of ballroom dancing included in DanceSport categories of competition. The Cha Cha Cha can be danced in either the International Latin Style or the American Rhythm Style. In addition, this dance style is derived from the Rumba and the Mambo.
