Denis Tremblay is a former Professional Ballroom dancer, specializing in International Style Standard and Latin. He holds 13 Canadian Professional Championship titles and was a 6-time consecutive British Open Professional Standard Grand Finalist, the only Canadian dancer to have achieved this feat. Currently a National Adjudicator for Canada DanceSport as well as a World Class Adjudicator of the World DanceSport Federation, Denis is sought after all around the world as an instructor, choreographer and lecturer.
Barbara Nagode Ambroz is a renowned specialist in Latin American dancing. With over 40 years of experience through instruction and adjudication, she has trained and raised various champions of the DanceSport industry including WDSF World Amateur & Professional Latin Champions, Zoran Plohl and Tatsiana Lahvinovich Galchun. She is the author of Back to the Roots: The Authentic Cuban Footprint in Competitive Latin American Dancing, which supplements her documentary of the same name that was filmed detailing her music and movement research experiences in Havana, Cuba.
Her latest contribution to Latin competitive dancing is "Authentic Latin Percussion". This course provides a unique insight into the rhythmical structure of Cha Cha Cha, Rumba, Bolero and Samba. Its aim is to help dancers and coaches understand why dance steps and figures have specific rhythms and where exactly they come from, while encouraging them to discover and create their own rhythmical interpretations.
"Authentic Latin Percussion" written by Barbara Nagode Ambroz, music and video by Michael de Miranda on Snapp-Dance (APP).
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Anya Klimova-Preston is a former Professional Ballroom dancer, specializing in the International Style Standard and Latin divisions. Having coached various Russian National Champions that took titles from 2004 to 2006 as well as U.S. National Champions of 2009 to 2011 and 2013, she is an award winning author of various Ballroom Dancing programs including "Dance Fireworks" and the "Six Steps to Ballroom Dance Proficiency". Anya has won numerous awards throughout her career as a dance instructor, including "Dance Teacher of the Year" in Russia in 2003. Now residing in Portland, Oregon, Anya is currently a dance instructor, choreographer, as well as an adjudicator for USA Dance and the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF).
Andrea Zaramella is a professional ballroom dancer, specialize in International Style Standard. Andrea is a 5-Time Italian Ballroom Champion, World Under 21 Ballroom Vice-Champion, Semi-Finalist at the many major competitions in the world of DanceSport. Now Andrea is Instructor, Coach, USA Dance National Adjudicator and competition organizer
