On the occasion of the 2017 PD World Standard in Prague, CZE, the community took a look back at the first ten years of WDSF PD and its predecessor organisation, celebrating together with some of the biggest names in dance.
17/09/2017 read more ...Benedetto Ferruggia and Claudia Koehler, GER, won their second world title as professionals. First and second runners-up were Donatas Vezelis - Lina Chatkeviciute, LTU, and Bjorn Bisch - Ashli Williamson, DEN, respectively.
17/09/2017 read more ...History was made at the 2017 World Standard in Chengdu, CHN. Russians Dmitry Zharkov and Olga Kulikova equalled the three titles of four legendary couples. Germans Simone Segatori and Annette Sudol moved on to the PD.
15/09/2017 read more ...Four years ago, Vice-President James "Jim" Fraser was awarded the "Caring Canadian" in recognition of his services to non-profit organisations tied to DanceSport. Now he is honoured with the "Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers."
15/09/2017 read more ...Eva Bartunkova and Petr Bartunek report on another visit to Lesotho which served to promote DanceSport on the "Dark Continent." Couples from Estonia, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland danced in the first WDSF Lesotho Open.
08/09/2017 read more ...Live streams will be available on the 2017 European Youth Standard - today, 8 September - and the 2017 World Junior II Standard - tomorrow, 9 September. Both are held in Brtaislava as part of the Slovak Open Championship. Enjoy!
08/09/2017 read more ...The IDSF Presidium awarded the rights to host the IDSF World Cup Standard to the city of Chengdu, China, last year with the aim to engage a new city in China to promote IDSF competitions.
With the support of our member in China, the CDSF, and the Chendu Sports Administration, the 2010 World Cup Standard together with the IDSF Open Latin took place at the Shuang Liu Sports Stadium on 7 August 2010, followed by the IDSF Open Standard on 8 July. The venue was packed with an enthusiastic audience. Most of them have never seen such high-level performances in DanceSport as exhibited by top IDSF athletes from 25 IDSF Member countries. Despite of the heat in the stadium, the energy and adrenalin of the athletes were soaring with Sergey and Olga Konovaltsev (Russia) winning the World Cup Standard while Martino Zanibellato and Michelle Abildtrup, DEN, and Marco Cavallaro and Joanne Clifton winning the IDSF Open Latin and Standard respectively.
The organiser fulfilled their responsibilities well and overwhelmed the officials and athletes with their warm and generous hospitality. IDSF officials and athletes were treated to 5-star hotel accommodation, welcome and farewell parties and transportation that ferried the athletes to and from the hotel in between events. Those who arrived earlier were treated to a day city tour, around the “Home of the Panda”.
At the end of the event, the officials from the Chengdu Sports Administration, the CDSF and the IDSF made an agreement to run an official IDSF event annually in this very important city in China.
Joining the city of Shanghai, Chengdu will now be the second Chinese city to host an annual event for IDSF from 2010.
Next year Chengdu will be the host city for the IDSF Grand Slam Latin in July.
Photos and report by IDSF Secretary General Shawn Tay.
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