The Amateur Division of DanceSport is a competitive division of Ballroom Dancing. An amateur is a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science in a non-professional or unpaid manner. Therefore, an amateur dancer is one who is not financially remunerated for the time they spend dancing or training, even though now in modern times, price rewards are in check at many competitions and championships. As a result, the term "amateur" is more of an upheld ideal.
All Russian Federation of DanceSport and Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll (FDSARR) - is the official national governing body for DanceSport (the competitive version of ballroom dancing) in the Russia. Member of World DanceSport Federation (WDSF), President - Nadezhda Erastova.
AIDA Dance Shoes is originally a Russian Dance Shoe Company specializing in DanceSport. Today, countries all over the world sell these shoes as they are considered one of the major brands in all of DanceSport in large part due to many sponsored Champions that wear their signature models.
An adjudicator is a person certified by a Professional DanceSport Organization to evaluate a DanceSport couple's performance based on given criteria.
"Technique of Latin Dancing" (also known as "The Laird Technique of Latin Dancing") is an educational book written by the Ballroom Dancing legend, Walter Laird, first published in the year 1961.
The World Dance Council (WDC), is a registered limited company, and the legal successor to the International Council of Ballroom Dancing, and was established at a meeting organised by Phillip J. S. Richardson on 22 September 1950 in Edinburgh. For a period from 1996 to 2006, the WDC was known as the World Dance & DanceSport Council.
Tatsiana Lahvinovich Galchun is a former Professional Ballroom Dancer, specializing in the International Style Latin division. She is a 4-time Croatian National Amateur Champion, a WDSF European & World Latin Champion in the Amateur and Professional divisions, as well as the winner of almost all possible major DanceSport competitions including the German Open Championships (GOC), The International Championship, UK Open Championships and Blackpool Dance Festival. Tatsiana is currently a WDSF Licensed Adjudicator and the coach of many top couples including WDSF World Champions in Adult 10 Dance & Under 21 Latin. Residing in Ljubljana, Slovenia, she is the co-owner of the Plesna Šola Diamant Dance Studio.
Taliat Tarsinov is a former professional ballroom dancer. The Russian National Latin and ten dance Champion, The Soviet Union National Standard and Latin Show Dance Champion.
