Following a comprehensive proposal by the WDSF Sports Commission, a decision has been made to adopt a new allocation of base points for each participating couple in WDSF World Ranking Tournaments.
06/05/2024 read more ...As the final notes faded away and the applause subsided, the young dancers stood proud, knowing that they had given their all and left everything on the dancefloor.
05/05/2024 read more ...This webinar is a must-attend for athletes, coaches, and anyone involved in sports who aims to uphold the highest standards of fairness and integrity in competitions.
30/04/2024 read more ...By providing a transparent framework for qualification and participation, this policy aims to motivate couples to strive for excellence in the WDSF World and Continental Championships.
26/04/2024 read more ...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 ...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?