The undefeated couple over the past year, Alexey Glukhov – Anastasia Glazunova (MDA) conquers the 2024 WDSF European Championship Standard title in Chisinau, Moldova.
16/04/2024 read more ...This long-standing collaboration, launched in 2015, has seen Casa musica play an integral role in enhancing the musical backdrop of WDSF competitions.
28/03/2024 read more ...Beyond a conventional sponsorship, the partnership embodies a shared vision of nurturing the DanceSport community and providing dancers with optimal footwear for outstanding performances.
21/03/2024 read more ...This year, the GrandSlam circuit promises to be more exhilarating than ever, with a total of five electrifying events spanning across the globe.
05/03/2024 read more ...The World DanceSport Federation is honoured to unveil the definitive list of athletes who have successfully qualified and have been confirmed by their NMBs for the prestigious Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS).
21/02/2024 read more ...Discover how the WDSF Education Programme empowers National Member Bodies with high-level educational resources, fostering growth and excellence in DanceSport. Learn more!
20/02/2024 read more ...For a number of years, DanceSport BC has been organising weekly open-air DanceSport lessons at the Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, CAN, throughout the summer.
The event usually draws hundreds of dancers. We reported about the initiative a few years ago (here).
Last Thursday evening, however, Pokémon Go players far outnumbered the dancers. From a distance it looked like a street festival. There was music, there were balloons and there were hundreds of people either dancing or mingling shoulder to shoulder. Most of them had their sight locked in on the screen of their smartphones.
To play Pokémon, you fire up the game and then start trekking to prominent local landmarks — represented in the game as “Pokestops” — where you can gather supplies such as Pokeballs. Those are what you fling at online “pocket monsters,” or Pokémon, to capture them for training. At other locations called “gyms” — which may or may not be actual gyms in the real world — Pokémon battle one another for supremacy. Players can also use lures to attract wild Pokemon. In big groups, like the lure party on Robson, hundreds of lures can be set which means hundreds of Pokémon can be captured. In this way, the game encourages social interaction. Like dancing?