The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival, also known as the British Open Championships, is the world's first and most famous annual Ballroom Dance competition of international significance, held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens of Blackpool, England since 1920. It is also the largest ever Ballroom competition: in 2013, 2953 couples from 60 countries took part in the festival.
The BDF Star Championships (originally known as The Star Championships) is a competition hosted in England, currently organized by the Ballroom Dancers' Federation. It used to be one of the most prestigious events of its time, supported by the Star Newspaper from 1925 to 1931. In 1938, the event was resumed. However, it never reached its former level of prestige again.
The Baltic Grand Prix is a sanctioned 3-day Latvian Dance Sport Federation competition, recognized by the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF). Hosted in Riga, Latvia, organized by Aigars Svars.. The 2017 Baltic Grand Prix includes various WDSF sanctioned events such as the WDSF World Open, WDSF International Open, as well as WDSF World Championships.
The Mid-Atlantic Championships is a sanctioned USA Dance three-days competition hosted annually in Maryland (USA), around the months of February. The Mid-Atlantic Championships is a qualifying competition for the USA Dance National DanceSport Championships in Baltimore, MD.
The METU Open is a sanctioned 2-day Turkish DanceSport Federation (TDSF) competition, recognized by the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) since 2009. A WDSF World Ranking Tournament, the METU Open is hosted in Ankara, Turkey by the Middle East Technical University (METU) DanceSport Club, where the head of the competition's organization committee is Arif Göktuğ Karacalıoğlu.
The American Star Ball Championships is a sanctioned by National Dance Council of America tree days competition, hosted annually in Atlantic City (USA), around the middle of May. Organized by 4-time World American Rhythm Finalist Ilya and Amanda Reyzin and Igor Litvinov.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
