Wang Fengyi - Zou Xiaomin, CHN, dance the first round Tango at the WDSF GrandSlam Standard in Beijing, on September the 8th.
Valentin Lusin, Renata Busheeva, GER, dance the first round Viennese Waltz at the WDSF GrandSlam Standard in Beijing, on September the 8th.
Michal Drha - Klara Zamecnikova, CZE dance the first round Viennese Waltz at the WDSF GrandSlam Standard in Beijing, on September the 8th.
Oreste Alitto - Federica Bosco, ITA, dance the first round Waltz at the WDSF GrandSlam Standard in Beijing, on September the 8th.
Giuseppe Longarini - Katarzyna Kapral, POL, dance the first round Waltz at the WDSF GrandSlam Standard in Beijing, on September the 8th.
Pasquale Farina - Sofie Koborg, DEN, dance the first round Waltz at the WDSF GrandSlam Standard in Beijing, on September the 8th.
Interview with the winners of the 2013 WDSF World DanceSport GrandSlam Latin in Beijing, CHN, Armen Tsaturyan - Svetlana Gudyno, RUS.
Interview with the winners of the 2013 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Showdance in Beijing, CHN, Simone Segatori and Anette Sudol, GER.
Lukas Bartunek - Katerina Hrstkova, CZE, dance the third round Paso Doble at the WDSF GrandSlam Latin in Beijing, on September the 17th.
We are still hard pressrd to upload a few of the remaining videos from yesterday's GrandSlam Latin. One by one the get to Spain from where they are then uploaded to the WDSF YouTube channel DanceSport Total by our production assistant Lena Hilfiker.
All performances of today's World Showdance will obviously get recorded (as will the GrandSlam Standard) and we hope to be able to upload the clips with a blisteringly fast optical fibre line in Kaohsiung on Tuesday.
Please be advised that we will also not be able to keep blogging from about 11:00 UTC/GMT as the entire WDSF Communications team will again be involved in the production of the international signal that gets broadcast live on Eurosport from 12:30 UTC/GMT.
Those who have danced the three GrandSlams to date know where they stand, whether they would qualify at this time. Sometimes dancing in the fourth is adding a margin of safety: a better placing than in the previous ones could already ensure participation after Beijing. For others it’s simply continuing the quest towards perfection and more ranking points in general. And let’s not forget the purse for a select few ...
In any case, the starting list proves that the couples are eager to dance here in Beijing: 15 out of the top 24 couples of the World Ranking list have entered and started dancing at around 2 p.m. local time.
The top 12 couples in the current GrandSlam Series ranking were seeded and didn’t have to dance the first round that started three hours earlier.
As yesterday, Chinese participation in this GrandSlam is exceptionally high: 46 out of the 89 couples are from China. That’s more than in Latin. Why? As in other parts of Asia, Standard is the discipline preferred by a majority. Where else do they get to share the floor with the world # 1, 2 and 3 ...
Sergei Konovaltsev and Olga Konovaltseva, RUS, who finished fourth in Stuttgart, did not have this Grand Slam on their calendar. They had a very busy summer already: The World Games in Cali, COL, in July, Stuttgart in August and they will soon travel to the WDSF World DanceSport Games in Kaohsiung. They take place from 16 to 20 September in the Taiwanese port city and feature all the different dance styles and disciplines: 14 altogether.
Some of the couples dancing in Beijing will go straight to Kaohsiung on Monday or Tuesday.
Ilya Kirshak - Natalia Tikhonova, RUS, dance the third round Jive at the WDSF GrandSlam Latin in Beijing, on September the 17th.
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