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PARIS 2011. THE WDC AL OPEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP & DISNEY CUP PROFESSIONAL LATIN AND BALLROOM
As the dates 3rd  to 5th December draw
nearer Paris becomes the focus for attention of dancers around the world. One can sense the excitement building. If you have not yet entered do so now dancers and share this fabulous 3 days.

The WDC AL Open World Championships will once again take place at the New York Hotel, Disneyland, Paris and yet again new records will be established in its growth and success .  Entries are coming in from all over the world with dancers wanting to be Free and part of a celebration of the best in competitive dancing. Many are returning competitors wanting to once again enjoy the Paris experience whilst for others this will be their first Open World.

In addition to the Open World Championships there are the Disneyland Resort competitions in all age groups so couples have the chance to dance more than one event.  Full details are available at
http://www.danceworldseries.com/

Competitors can rest assured that they will have adjudication panels made up of some of the greatest dancers ever to grace the competition floor. Past World Champions, Continental Champions, National Champions with deep knowledge and experience will be working in panels and couples can dance secure in the confidence of the qualifications of their judges and their impartiality.  This will be backed up with the best organisation, great music, comperes who will inform and entertain, a team of first class helpers working for you, and an audience who will be enthusiastic and appreciative.

In addition 2011 will give dancers the chance to participate in a Free Congress presented by Dr Professor Ruud Vermeij the Head of the WDCV & AL Education Department


Special Workshop Saturday 3rd of December 2011
Grand Ballroom
10.00 - 12.15 hours
All dancers, teachers coaches and adjudicators.
Program:
10.00 - 10.30 Tone Nyhagen
10.30 - 11.00 Anne Gleave
11.00 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 11.45 Prof.Dr. Ruud Vermeij
11.45 - 12.15 Massimo Giorgiani

Two highlights which will provide the audience with the opportunity to enjoy the performances of the very top dancers in the world will be the World Super Series Professional Ranking competitions. The Disneyland Resort Professional Latin on Sunday 4th  and Ballroom on Monday 5th December 2011.

See you in Paris

CZĘŚĆ PIERWSZA


5TH December?3rd and the last day of the wonderful event?

?.The mood is excellent and spirits are high?.on this early Monday morning..
Over the 3 days, this event saw around 1800 couples from 41 countries?WDC Amateur League is growing and growing fast?the reason for it is quite obvious, - WDC events are the best events and the best condition for competitors in the World.
?on behalf of all adjudicators and competitors, - A HUGE THANK YOU goes to Sammy Stopford, Donnie Burns MBE, Heidi Burns, Fred Bijster and Barbara Mccoll?.
?Barbara would like to say thank you to everyone for their support and making this event once again very successful and she hopes that next year they come again and bring their friends?.
?Heidi would like say that we are so appreciative of the support from many countries around the world who have helped to make this event such a huge success in the terms of the quality of the dancing and the thousands who have participated. ?

Monday Morning results:

Disneyland Resort Paris Youth under 19 Latin championships:
1st Austin Joson and Gabriella Sabler, USA
2nd Kai Widdrington and Natalia Jeved, England
3rd Ivan Khudoly and Oleksandra Burakova, Ukraine
4th Aleksandr Dunaev and Anzhelika Prilutskaya, USA
5th Oleksandr Frantsen and Nikita Vlasenko, Ukraine
6th Paul Postolachi and Galina Voitenco, Moldova

Disneyland Resort Paris Youth under 19 Ballroom championships:

1st Oleksiy Rotar and Kateryna Shylo, Ukraine
2nd Mikhail Zakharov and Elizaveta Yuzhakova, Russia
3rd Matthew Dean and Sophie Webb,
4th Rusu Jurie and Ceban Anna-Maria, Moldova
5th Bouauolta Giauluca and Oleva Kovalenko, Italy
6th Vasyl and Sofiya Schudlyk, Ukraine

Open World Junior under 14 Ballroom championships:

1st Yan Stepanenko and Polina Ryabovil, Ukraine
2nd Lloyd Perry and Rebecca Scott, England
3rd Ignatiy Malkov and Anastasia Sidorova, Russia
4th Mikhailo Kalistov and Diana Miroshnichenko, Ukraine
5th Yevgeniy Patrushev and Ielyzaveta Chudakova, Ukraine
6th Pavel Potemkin and Etel Kobrina, Russia

Open World Amateur Salsa Championships:
1st Jakub Mazuch and Michaela Gatekova, Czech Republic
2nd Surdo Alesandro and Maraschino Antonella, Italy
3rd Andrea Ibba and Veronica Arrais, Italy
4th Alex Robinson and Kirsty Sahota, England

Open World Youth under 21 Ballroom Championships:
1st Oskar Wojciechowski & Karoline Holody (U.S.A.)
2nd Andrey Volkov & Anastasia Kravchenko (Russia)
3rd Sidney Chong & Sofiya Aksenchyk (England)
4th Angelo Gaetano & Clarissa Morelli (Italy)
5th Ruslan Kalyuznyy & Valeriya Kalishchuk (Ukraine)
6th Aj Pritchard & Chloe Hewitt (England)

Open World Senior Over 35 Ballroom Championships:
1st Eric & Charlotte Voorn (Holland)
2nd Andreas Meijer & Jody Frease Meijer (U.S.A.)
3rd Dan Baxter & Janine Desai (England)
4th Mikhail Kotsar & Olga Melnik (Russia)
5th Patrick Cado & Carla Samogin (Italy)
6th Piero Stillitano & Caroline Malkinson (England)

Open World Junior under 16 Latin Championships:
1st Yan Stepanenko & Polina Ryabovil (Ukraine)
2nd Ilya KashIrkin & Anna Mayorova (Russia)
3rd Luke Miller & Hanna Creswell (England)
4th Olexey Fedorov & Yelizaveta Kruk (Ukraine)
5th Puttipong Sahaifa & Sutatip Bunwilai (Thailand)
6th Oleksandr Kalenyuk & Oleksandra Troshyna (Ukraine)

Open Disneyland Resort Professional Ballroom Championships:
The crowed was ecstatic and so the dancing too; all the couples performed at their very best and it was just amazing to watch. Thank you?.

1st Mirko Gozzoli & Edita Daniute (Italy)
2nd Valerio Colantoni & Yulia Spesivtseva (Russia)
3rd Warren & Kristi Boyce (England)
4th Eldar Dzhafarov & Anna Sazhina (Azerbadzjan)
5th Wiktor Kiszka & Agnes Kazmierczak (U.S.A.)
6th Alessio Potenziani & Veronika Vlasova (Russia

Open World Amateur Latin Championships?
The level was extremely high from the first round?and when it got down to the top 12, it was simply too difficult to choose who to watch; every one of these 12 best couples were amazing?
In the final some couples were so magical, it felt as if you were part of their dance story?

Winners: Neil Jones & Ekaterina Sokolova (England)
2nd Mirco Risi & Maria Ermachkova (Italy)
3rd Kirill Belorukov & Elvira Skrylnikova (Russia)
4th Ferdinando Iannaccone & Yulia Muskhina (Italy)
5th Morten Lowe & Roselina Doneva (Bulgaria)
6th Dorin Frecautanu & Svetlana Borisova (Moldova)

Thank you for being here, thank you for reading and thank you for being interested in us, the WDC Amateur League events. We wish Merry Christmas and a very prosperous New Year and hope to see here, at Disneyland resort Paris World Championships in 2012!!!!!

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Pozdrawiam
Marek

CZĘŚĆ DRUGA

WDC AL OPEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS ? DAY 2
What a day and WHAT A NIGHT!

What a truly fantastic and memorable day all those fortunate enough to be present shared. It was early Sunday morning at breakfast that the ?Buzz? already started. Two topics were paramount. First how great Day 1 had been and second what Day 2 might bring and there was much anticipation. We were not to be disappointed..

There was a 9.00 a.m. start in both Times Square Ballroom and the Grand Ballroom and even at that early hour there was tremendous ambience and great attendance to support and encourage our dancers and this included many of the top names in the Who's Who of Dance.

Again there were to be superb adjudicating panels made up of 9 or 11 Adjudicators. The afternoon and evening session there were 2 panels each of 17 adjudicators. The Latin Panel included holders of 59 World and British Open titles and the Ballroom Panel 58 World and British Open titles. No dancer could ask for more qualified and experienced persons assessing them. These were people who had devoted their lives to dance including its development and advance and the protection of values rather than attending a short ?training course? every 2 years which unfortunately is the case in some activities and poor substitute for deep knowledge.

In the programme of Day 2 we were to have 10 Disneyland Resort Championships and 20 Open World Championships. A heavy schedule and run totally on time which is the sign of great organisation.

During the morning and afternoon there were many highlights but special mention must be made of the Under 10 and Under 12 Restricted Syllabus Championships. Here we witnessed young dancers, our future, being trained in technique and the qualities on which competitive dance must be based. It was especially pleasing to see a ?new? country like Kazakhstan having finalists amongst the ?traditional? dancing nations. These young children showed us the beauty of dancing, the qualities, such as culture, discipline, good conduct, our beautiful competitive dance can provide. Later in the day as we enjoyed Over 45 and Over 55 events we saw the benefits and how WDC is the natural home for dancers from the cradle to the grave.

As the evening neared one could sense the anticipation, the building of excitement and expectation and at 18.45 there was the Evening Opening Ceremony with special lighting effects and and an introduction followed by superb competitions with a fantastic and even standard.

With the approach of the Professional Latin and the rounds of quarter final onwards for Amateur Ballroom we switched to Carnival time and the Maracas and Tambourines were distributed to the entire audience. How popular and loved this has become. No one is better able to present a Family Celebration of the good in Dance than the WDC and there was some great fun ?line? dancing during which the entire Adjudicating panel joined in and contributed delighting so many young children. For the first timers the party atmosphere was infectious but to see how our idols and heroes are human was special.

Once the serious side commenced we had 2 fabulous fantastic competitions which had huge support from the audience, inspiring the dancers to even better performances and creating unfortunate decision making tasks for the judges when the standard is so high and so even. The applause was at times deafening and our great dancers did not disappoint which only encouraged the audience to greater support!

It is indeed a privilege to be a part of the WDC ?Family? and enjoy these special moments.

At the conclusion of the days programmes it was announced that during the evening of Day 3, which already promises so much, we will be treated to a fabulous show by Ruccardo/Yulia and Sergey/Melia.

Oh Yes Paris 2011 there is certainly a ?Buzz?. Day 3 will be superb.

Full Results : http://www.scrutelle.info/results/estelle/2011/111203_disney/index.htm
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CZĘŚĆ TRZECIA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=PL&v=nzPF2DoBDhw
Neil Jones & Ekaterina Sokolova - Honor Dance. 2011  -
International Championships 2011, Amateur Latin, Winner's Dance, Jive



WDC AL OPEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2011
Day 3 was ?Magic? and unforgettable.

It was shortly after midnight Monday 5th that this spectacular 2011 festival came to a conclusion and we have lifetime memories from 3 fabulous days. The ?baby? of 4 years ago has matured and grown and is now a major part of the calendar for dance lovers and those who reject intimidation and threats. Their number increases daily.

During, early morning breakfast all the chatter was about how brilliant it had been the previous day and what lay ahead on Monday. The mouth watering prospect of a show by Sergey & Melia with Riccardo & Yulia was catching the interest and imagination of all and that this would be included with some important championships was a bonus.

The 3rd morning began in a slightly quieter mood than the previous days even though we were to witness 9 Disneyland Resort and 19 World Open Championships. This was not surprising given the ambience during the previous days. Batteries need recharging!

However when an exciting Under 19 Latin competition set the ball rolling it gathered momentum with a hugely enjoyable and high class Under 16 Latin and Under 21 Ballroom. We were on track.

The judging panels for these competitions included great dancers of today, such as Riccardo, Yulia, Sergey, Melia, Alessia, Mirko all providing fresh impetus,and this must be a mouth watering prospect for a young dancer. How exciting to be receiving a 1st place from these great dancers! Only the , WDC - the World Dance Champions can offer this.

With all this going on around us we were getting ?in the mood? for sure and were not to be disappointed by later events. At this stage one must give every dancer congratulations for the spectacular costuming we had enjoyed every day and always with good taste.

After the evening session Opening Ceremony we were introduced to the 2 judging panels each comprising 17 dance lovers, holders of many major titles during their competitive dancing lives and today hugely valued coaches and trainers of Champions. Their knowledge and integrity is why they are so respected. The evening programme comprised the Professional Ballroom Super Series Ranking Disneyland Resort Championship plus 2 Open World Championships. There was the Amateur Latin plus the Over 35 Ballroom as the WDC respects and values our Senior dancers.

After just 2 of the 4 heats (and no info) for the Amateur Latin it was obvious this was a to be heart breaking night for many dancers. The standard was so high and with so many talented and good performances the judges could not mark all. The last 24 and 12 one could have made a case for every couple to go on.

It was an innovative move to dance the quarter final of the Amateur Latin Championship in 3 heats of only 8 couples thus giving greater time for assessment.

With the distribution of the maracas and tambourines the carnival mood was set and how everyone loves to participate in the ?fun?, including the adjudicators. This encouragement of audience participation and involvement in all events and proceedings is so important as they an integral part of our world.

All 3 Championships were so enjoyable and with a wealth of talent on display. One had to sympathise with those who on this night did not get a recall. On the positive side one must congratulate the dancers for the spectacular but tasteful costumes we witnessed every day, without exception.

After the conclusion of 3 superb competitions we cam to the show. We were honoured to witness truly outstanding dancing. Sergey & Melia gave us a cha cha and rumba whilst Riccardo & Yulia gave a rumba and paso. The emotion, the art of dance, the beauty of dance were so uppermost in everyone's minds. The future these great champions want for dance is clear.

All too soon we witnessed the final fun dance, competition and prize giving and the journey home beckoned. No one an take away the fantastic shared experiences and feeling of being part of a ?family? 2012 can only be better. The dates are 7th, 8th, 9th December. 2012.