Seriously, most of the athletes have retired to their rooms hours ago, right after the speeches ... By the way, these were held by WDSF President Carlos Freitag and the host and hostess of the 2011 World Latin in Singapore, Shawn and Gladys Tay.
All these photographs have been taken by WDSF Communications photographer Prof Dr Helmut Roland.
After the 2011 European Latin in Marseille, FRA, it appeared that a new order had been established, that the succession of Alexey Silde and Anna Firstova had been settled.
The new European Champions did win on a few occasions against some of the other Marseille finalists: at the International Open in Tallinn, EST, and the Seoul, KOR, International Open for instance. But in the Chengdu, CHN, Grand Slam they came in second to Aniello Langella and Khrystyna Moshenska, ITA, and the last showdown in Stuttgart, GER, they did not enter. The Stuttgart Grand Slam was won by
That should make tomorrow’s clash between all of these couples even more unpredictable. What we can do here is show you the solo Jive in Stuttgart for the three listed above and the solo Jive by Zoran and Tatsiana in Marseille. Just to tie you over until tomorrow …
Everybody at the welcome party? No, the ladies at the registration desk are still working ... Friendliness pairs with efficiency: Singapore style!
90 couples will compete in tomorrow's World Latin in Singapore. Most arrive today and leave on Sunday. Many will have travelled thousands of kilometres ... Martino Zanibellato and Michelle Abildtrup, DEN, should have accrued more frequent flyer miles too. After a long and tiring journey is before another long and ... But tomorrow everyone is wide awake.
Even WDSF President Carlos Freitag (below) is in the flag delivery business these days. He distrubuted some 40 sets during the recent German Open in Stuttgart.
Shawn Tay (below), WDSF Secertary General and World Latin chief organiser, is the man who lets the work to be done by others ... In this case by the friendly volunteers staffing the registration desk.
Travelled for some 16 hours, arrived at the hotel, took a shower ... And then started to record a time-laps sequence of the day to night views from my room at the Conrad (9th floor) ... Went for dinner, met people I know, went back to the room, stopped the recording, went to bed, couldn't sleep ... Here's the time-laps recording ... Maybe part of it is lost in translation! Going to bed again! Good night!
Part of the WDSF Communications crew has arrived safely at the Conrad Centennial after an uneventful but long journey. We summed it all up in our first visual report filed from Singapore ... Enjoy!
It goes without saying: the cab driver obviously respected the speed limit at all times!
WDSF, still IDSF then, Communications was present too and produced live coverage plus The Final Reel below …
Five of the six couples dancing in the 8-minute highlight on the final of the 2011 IDSF European DanceSport Championship will dance the World Latin on Saturday too. Only Vladimir Karpov and Maria Tzaptashvilli, RUS, did not make it to Singapore.
Not to be missed!
Starting on 10 September at 11:00 SGT (UTC + 8 hours)! For reference: right now, in Singapore it is ...
BD Dance, which is also the international brand of the company, promotes its products through their Ambassadors, champions and top athletes excelling in DanceSport. In Singapore, the company will offer a sponsorship of 5000 € to the 2011 WDSF World Champions Latin, provided they choose to become BD Dance Ambassador under agreed conditions.
The 24 couples reaching the quarterfinals will each be given a pair of BD Dance shoes, and all participants receive a dance accessory bag and a 2011 World Latin towel.
In the annals of the Singapore DanceSport Federation we came across a report on the 1992 IDSF World DanceSport Championship Standard.
"Saturday, 4 April 1992, was a very special day for all members of the Amateur DanceSport Association (ADSA). Not only did Singapore become the first country in Asia to host the World DanceSport Championship Standard, we broke three records doing it.
For the first time in the history of any World Championship, a record number of 65 couples took part. It was also the first time that 39 countries were represented, breaking another record. Some 4,000 spectators witnessed the crowning of the World Champions that night, making it the largest number of spectators in any DanceSport event in South-East Asia ...
So, Singapore had her “premiere", and the IDSF was thrilled. ADSA's dream had come true. At the farewell dinner hosted by the IDSF at the world famous Raffles Hotel, IDSF President Detlef Hegemann assured that more World and International Championships would be organised in Asia in future. What wonderful news!"
The pledge made by Detlef Hegemann, the WDSF Honorary President who passed away on 23 August 2011, did indeed bring many more top-level DanceSport events to the city-state. Grand Slams, Grand Slam Finals, World and Continental Championships!
Read up on some of the major championships that were organised by the Singapore DanceSport Federation (previously ADSA) here.
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Natasza .... on 09 September 2011 12:17
Can someone create a Poll ? Please!
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