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The 2012 GrandSlam Finals

Reserved As Well 08/12/2012

Best Seat You will also be ensured front-row seating for the 2012 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Formation Latin in Bremen, GER.

The host broadcaster Radio Bremen will stream the semi-final round live and worldwide from the ÖVB Arena. The webcast is scheduled to start at 19:25 UTC/GMT. A link to the stream will be posted here.

A live broadcast of the final (which is not available as stream) will start at 22:15 UTC/GMT on NDR/RB, a channel which you can tune into on ASTRA 19.2 E. 

From The Best Seat In The House 08/12/2012

Luwan Stadium © www.cdsf.org.cn The WDSF GrandSlam Final Latin gets underway at 12:00 h UTC/GMT with the first round and 13 couples vying for the 9 places in the semi-final that is scheduled to start at 12:50 h UTC/GMT. The finalist couples will then be called to the floor one by one from 13:45 h UTC/GMT. 105 seconds are allocated for each solo dance and the final should be completed in just under 50 minutes.

The WDSF Communications team offers you a front row seat to follow the three rounds right here, but with the individual video clips getting uploaded after what is a rather time-consuming process. YouTube cannot be accessed from China and the clips will need to be transferred to another country for the actual uploading. That will more than double the turnaround time for them to get posted here (after an upload/download/upload). So while the seat is perfect - as it is for the VIP taking up the first row of seats around the floor - timeliness of the reporting is bound to suffer considerably on this occasion! 

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2012 GrandSlam Finals | Press Conference 08/12/2012

The press conference prior to the 2012 WDSF GrandSlam Finals in Shanghai, CHN.


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Go On Red! 07/12/2012

The couples are arriving at the press conference prior to the 2012 WDSF GrandSlam Finals in Shanghai, CHN.

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Aniello Langella - Khrystyna Moshenska, ITA 07/12/2012

Prof Helmut Roland interviews Aniello Langella - Khrystyna Moshenska, ITA, ahead of the GrandSlam Final Standard in Shanghai, CHN. 2012 did turn out to be their year!


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Martino Zanibellato - Michelle Abildtrup | ITV in Shanghai, CHN 07/12/2012

Prof Helmut Roland interviews Martino Zanibellato - Michelle Abildtrup, DEN, ahead of the GrandSlam Final Standard in Shanghai, CHN. 

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You Just Had To Be There ... 07/12/2012

Shanghai, China | 7 December 2012 © Roland The press conference and the welcoming party that preceded the 2012 GrandSlam Finals in Shanghai, CHN, will go down in history. There might have been red carpets rolled out on other occasions for the couples to take a stroll in style, but never was the lane for multiple photo opportunities quite as long as this one.

And speaking of photographs: if there ever was a DanceSport event that was able to rally up as much public and media interest at one day out - remember, nobody dances until tomorrow - you tell us which one. WDSF Communications team member Dr Roland tried to capture the magnitude of the moment. We let you vote on who were the best dressed dancers tonight.

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Marius Andrei Balan - Nina Bezzubova, GER 07/12/2012

Prof Helmut Roland interviews Marius Andrei Balan - Nina Bezzubova, GER, ahead of the GrandSlam Final Standard in Shanghai, CHN. The couple's 2012 breakthrough!

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Dmitry Zharkov - Olga Kulikova, RUS | ITV in Shanghai, CHN 07/12/2012

Prof Helmut Roland interviews Dmitry Zharkov - Olga Kulikova, RUS, ahead of the GrandSlam Final Standard in Shanghai, CHN. And after the couple walked down the red carpet!

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Shanghai Red Carpet Treatment 07/12/2012

Shanghai Walk of Fame

Walk of Fame Would you see a similar line-up of photgraphers waiting in front of the Kodak Theatre in Holywood, Los Angeles, USA, you would automatically assume that it's Academy Awards night there.

In Shanghai, CHN, it's merely the "Walk of Fame" that leads the world's best 24 couples in the Latin and Standard dances to the pre-GrandSlam Finals press conference that informed the media about the weekend's DanceSport extravaganza just a few hours ago.

Every couple had to walk down the red carpet - and that one by one - just to get to the premises where the conference took place.

What happened there we will show you shortly! Stay tuned.



Latin And Latin Formation 07/12/2012

Gruen-Gold Bremen © Radio Bremen The time difference between Shanghai, CHN, and Bremen, GER, is 7 hours right now.

The GrandSlam Final Latin will be over by 11 p.m. Shanghai time (3 p.m. UTC/GMT). That should allow to make two appointments tomorrow.

The first with the GrandSlam Final Latin in Shanghai and the second with the World Formation Latin in Bremen!

Why? Because the host broadcaster Radio Bremen TV will stream the semi-final of the World Formation Latin live and worldwide from the ÖVB Arena. The stream is scheduled for 8:25 p.m. (7:25 p.m. UTC/GMT). A link to the stream will be published on this blog.

Radio Bremen TV The final of the World Formation will then be live on Radio Bremen TV - and definitely not as a stream - in Germany from 11:15 p.m. for 60 minutes. Radio Bremen TV's footprint covers much of Europe through ASTRA. WDSF Communications will provide you with the satellite frequencies.

 
 

Setting The Stage 07/12/2012

Luwan Stadium The GrandSlam Final organisers are working hard to get the venue, the Luwan Stadium, ready for tomorrow's Latin competition. From the designer's artistic drawing evolved the actual field of play with stage, including screen, columns plus other orante shapes) and VIP seating arranged around it.

The flags of the participating nations - not only of the GrandSlam finalists, but of adudicators and couples dancing the International Opens too - still need to be hoisted.

 
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