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.
Ton Greten is a former Professional Ballroom dancer, specializing in the International Style Latin and ShowDance. Ton is a five times World ShowDance Championship Finalist, Bronze Medalist at the World & European Cup and multiple time Finalist at the French Open, Dutch Open, German Open, Italian Open and U.S. Open in Professional Latin. Till 2017 he was licensed Adjudicator with WDSF. Currently Ton is one of the Best Choreographer in the World, many of his students are World ShowDance Champions in Standard, Latin and Formation Dance.
Stephan Krauel is a former United States Professional Latin Finalist and a 5-time representative to the World Professional 10 Dance and Showdance Championships. He is a co-organizer of the San Francisco Open Championships and the organizer of the Portland Open DanceSport Competition.
Ruslan Wilder is a current Professional Ballroom Dancer who specializes in 10 Dance, International Standard, and International Latin and has represented the United States multiple times in the World Championships.
Roberto Albanese is a former Professional Ballroom Dancer, specializing in the International Style Latin division. He is the head coach of the Grün-Gold-Club Bremen Latin "A" Formation Team, whom he has lead to become 4-time World Champions, 3-time European Champions, and 10-time German National Champions. Roberto is a former head coach of the Deutscher Tanzsportverband e.V. (DTV) as well as of the Youth Latin League, and was named the "2017 Bremen Coach of the Year" in March of 2018. Currently, he is a German National Adjudicator for the Deutscher Tanzsportverband e.V., as well as an adjudicator for the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF). He is the organizer of one of the largest annual DanceSport training camps, the Dancing Superstars Festival in Bremen, Germany, which coincides with a competition of the same name.
Rita Gekhman-Algarra is a Professional Ballroom dancer, coach, and world-class adjudicator. Currently instructing at Paragon Ballroom in Roselle Park, New Jersey, Rita is also one of the organizers of the Kings Ball DanceSport Competition. She is also the proud new organizer of the International Grand Ball together with husband Maurice Algarra, to be hosted in San Francisco on July 27-29, 2018.
Salvatore Todaro is a former Ballroom dancer specializing in International Style Standard. He is a 11-time Bulgarian National Amateur Standard Champion, a WDSF World Standard Championship Finalist, a 2-time IWGA World Games Finalist, and a WDSF Amateur Standard World Cup Champion. Currently, Salvatore is a dance Instructor, choreographer, as well as a Licensed Adjudicator for the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) and a National Adjudicator for the Bulgarian Dance Sport Federation.
Overview Mircea Gavrila World Renowned Adjudicator Aside from being a National Adjudicator for the All Russian Federation of DanceSport and Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll (FDSARR), Mircea Gavrila has been an adjudicator for the World DanceSport...
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.
