The Junior Athletes DanceSport Association (JADA) - was created to represent Junior & Youth DanceSport competitors in the United Sates. JADA is a group that is intended to provide a place where parents and others can ask questions, share experiences, and at times frustrations with this addicting and exciting world of ballroom dance. They are not only have parents in their group, but dancers, studio representatives, teachers, adjudicators and competition organizers.
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.
The Jive originated in the United States in the 1930s and refers to a style of ballroom dancing included in DanceSport categories of competition. African Americans began performing a series of steps to Swing and Rock & Roll music and therefore created what we know today as the Jive.
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 Islanders Dancesport Challenge is a Dancesport one-day competition hosted annually in Staten Island, NY (USA) since 2014, orgonized by Renata Shvarts around the months of January. Now an Independently run, by Junior Athlete Dance Association (JADA).
The dances that make up the list of DanceSport dances are performed competitively at amateur and professional levels throughout the world. Ten international style ballroom dances—five Standard and five Latin —are defined by the World Dance Council (WDC), which has world-wide membership of all countries taking part in ballroom competitions.
The Paragon Open DanceSport Championships is a DanceSport competition hosted annually in the New Jersey/New York area since the year 2011 by 3-time USA National Professional Latin Champions Andrei Gavriline and Elena Kryuchkova.
The Paso Doble (meaning "double-step" in Spanish) refers to a style of ballroom dancing included in DanceSport categories of competition that began in the 16th century in the country of France. This dance became popular in Spain because it became based on the sound, drama, and movement of the Spanish and Portuguese bullfights.
The Pavane (pavan, paven, pavin, pavian, pavine, or pavyn) is a slow, majestic, processional dance that originated in Italy around 1508, common in Europe aristocracies during the 16th and 17th centuries (Renaissance).
The Peabody, which took its name in America, was known as the Quickstep in England. It is a Ballroom Dance that evolved from the fast Foxtrot of the ragtime era of the 1910s and 1920s.
