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2013 World Youth Latin

In Full Swing 12/07/2013

Chengdu DanceSport Festival The DanceSport Festival has been in full swing at the the Shuangliu Sports Centre in Chengdu, CHN, over the past few days already. Young couples have competed in the National DanceSport Championships for age groups Juvenile, Junior and Youth.

One just needs to look at the number of entries the championships had to appreciate the immense popularity the sport enjoys in China among those aged from 10 to 18.


Starting from tomorrow, 13 July, the Chengdu DanceSport Festival will turn into an international event with the 2013 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Youth Latin and a World Open Standard scheduled for the day. A World Open Latin follows on Sunday, 14 July.

The WDSF Communications team member Ferran Castañer is on its way from Kaohsiung - where he participated in the meetings between WDSF and the Organising Committee for the World DanceSport Games - to Chengdu. He is expected here later today and will start reporting from the moment he arrives.

Who has already made the journey from Kaohsiung is WDSF President Carlos Freitag. He attended the competitions last night and is shown below together with the winner of a beauty pageant that is part of this year's festival.

Carlos Freitag Chengdu DanceSport Festival Chengdu DanceSport Festival  

comment By WDSF Communications on 12 July 2013 10:18

The Home of The Giant Panda 11/07/2013

Chengdu The 2013 Chengdu International DanceSport Festival brings dancers from around the world back to the "Home of the Giant Panda," a label the city takes pride in carrying. But with the festival going into its third edition, Chengdu has also established itself as China's "DanceSport Capital." We reported about the festival's ambitious format in last year's blog on the Chengdu GrandSlam Latin (here).

This year, youth will be the overriding theme, with the World Youth Latin as well as National Championships both Standard and Latin in Juvenile, Junior and Youth age groups. Once more, well over 2,000 participants will be involved in the competitions staged over the next days at the he Shuangliu Sports Centre. Two WDSF World Opens are also scheduled: Standard on 13 and Latin on 14 July!

The WDSF Communications team will put its focus on the World Youth Latin on 13 July and report from the championship venue as close to real-time as the conditions there will allow for. One factor that will need to be considered: YouTube is blocked in mainland China and videos will need to get relayed through another country to get posted there. 

Here is a look at the festival's opening ceremony in 2012!

IsHWl5oNyzg|2012 GrandSlam Chengdu | Opening Ceremony

comment By WDSF Communications on 11 July 2013 11:54

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