Jurij Batagelj - is a professional ballroom dancer, choreographer, director, screenwriter, teacher and former latin-american competitor. After winning the title of Slovenian National Champions he and his partner Jagoda Batagelj also won the title of World Cup Champions just a few months later and in 2010 they became European Champions.
John Wells was the brother of Elsa Wells, founder of The International Championship held annually at the Royal Albert Hall in England. He was a renowned Ballroom Dancer who was a 6-time World Standard Champion and a 5-time Blackpool Champion.
Joe Trovato excels both in dance and business areas. He is available for sales training, as well as motivational seminars and meetings. Joe’s been Florida’s leading teacher for many years and Top Manager for over five years.
Jagoda Batagelj - is a professional ballroom dancer, choreographer, director, screenwriter, teacher and former latin-american competitor. After winning the title of Slovenian National Champions he and his partner Jurij Batagelj also won the title of World Cup Champions just a few months later and in 2010 they became European Champions.
The term International Style refers to a particular style of Ballroom Dances developed in the Europe that contrasts with the American Style. In a narrower sense, it denotes the group of 10 Dances danced in International Style DanceSport competitions. The group consists of two programs: International Style Standard and International Style Latin.
Hermes Pan (born Hermes Panagiotopolous) was a famous American dancer and choreographer, principally remembered as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on various famous movie musicals of the 1930s starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Having never taken a dance class, he is considered the master of American dance.
Sami Yli-Piipari is a former Professional Ballroom dancer specializing in 10 Dance. He is a former World & European Professional 10 Dance Grand Finalist, a UK Open Professional Rising Star Finalist, and a Blackpool Professional Rising Star Semi-Finalist. Sami is a professor at the University of Georgia and is a licensed WDSF and USA Dance Adjudicator and Chairman.
Shawn Tay started his competitive dancing career in 1982 with his wife, Gladys. In 1984, after winning several DanceSport competitions, they traveled to England to further their dance training. After winning more than 20 prestigious titles around the world, they retired from competitive dancing in 1994 to focus on coaching aspiring dancers.
Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. The film, Luhrmann's feature directorial début, is the first in his The Red Curtain Trilogy of theatre-motif-related films; it was followed by Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge.
Strictly Ballroom is based on a critically acclaimed stage play originally set up in 1984 by Luhrmann and fellow students while he was studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney. An expanded version of the play became a success at the Czechoslovakian Youth Drama Festival in Bratislava in 1986, and, in 1988, it made successful season at Sydney's Wharf Theatre, where it was seen by Australian music executive Ted Albert and his wife Antoinette. They both loved it, and, when Albert soon after set up the film production company M&A Productions with ex-Film Australia producer Tristram Miall, they offered Luhrmann to transform his play into a film. He agreed on the condition that he would also get to direct it.
Vesa Design is one of the top prestigious costume design brands in the world, specializing in making and enhancing the image of dancers by creating the most unique and custom-designed costumes.
