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In The U.S. Press 29/12/2016

Benedetto Ferruggia - Claudia Koehler, GER More than 70% of all public television channels in the USA have carried the 6-part World DanceSport GrandSlam Series. That's quite a promotion for WDSF brand DanceSport and its Member Body USA Dance. We will eventually do a follow-up on the impact that the initiative sponsored between WDSF and  USA Dance has had.

In an unrelated review of media take-up on WDSF DanceSport in the USA we came across the following two articles.

One appeared in The Tech, the newspaper published by one of the most presitgious universities in the USA, the Masachussetts Institute of Technology, and was titled

Art, Sport or DanceSport

An enthusiastic review of the American DanceSport Festival held in October 2016 in Boston.

The second article is in Spanish and written by an EFE press agency staff writer. It is published in HOY, the Spanish-language paper of the Los Angeles Times, under the title

Doing Sport In High Heels