Trivium Premiere

The judging system that will be used at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games to decide the outcome of the battles is field-tested today at the BOTY Central Europe breaking event in Zurich, SUI. The Trivium Value System ...

23/09/2017 read more ...

Dancing Is About To Start

Dancing is about to start in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, where the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games are currently in full swing. The eleven (!) medal events in DanceSport will be held on 25 and 26 September.

21/09/2017 read more ...

Ten Years of Professional Dancing in WDSF

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 ...

PD World Champions Standard

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 ...

Don't Miss This!

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 ...

Double The Honours

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 ...

#Sochi2014 05/02/2014

126th IOC Session © IOC While the big story for DanceSport is still two days away, when it will feature in the Olympic Opening Ceremony on Friday 7 February (16:00 UTC/GMT), today's news coming out of Sochi were very positive already.

The 126th IOC Session kicked off today in Sochi with the full IOC membership involved in lively discussions on ideas that will eventually form a strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement, the so-called Olympic Agenda 2020.

What is most positive for DanceSport as well as other sports aspiring to be part of future Games is a line of text about IOC's intention to "introduce flexibility in the Olympic programme to balance tradition and modernity while containing costs." We suggest you look at slide # 19 of the IOC PowerPoint presentation "Olympic Agenda 2020" ...