How the mambo became the cha-cha-cha By Patsy Holden
This article first appeared in the Examiner (www.examiner.com) How the mambo became the cha-cha-cha and the mambo dance craze of the 50s On December 12, 1949 Perez Prado, a Cuban band leader who had...
About the German Professional Dancesport Association
Submitted to DanceArchives by the German Professional Dancesport Association DPV The professional competitive dancers have been organized in Germany since 1948. At that time they were part of the German Dance Teachers Association...
Who was Alex Moore MBE? By Brigitt Mayer-Karakis
Alex Moore possessed talents that made him known as “the Pope of ballroom dancing.” A great communicator with an analytical mind and photographic memory, he used those skills to analyze movement, put his findings on paper and communicate them to the dance-world in his monthly newsletter, Monthly Letter Service (MLS).
Perfect 10: The Viennese waltz By Marianka Swain
“If there exists a form of music that is a direct expression of sensuality, it is the Viennese waltz,” wrote Austrian music scholar Max Graf in 1922.
Perfect 10: The paso doble By Marianka Swain
This article first appeared in a series called Perfect 10 in Dance Today (www.dance-today.co.uk) “Of all the ballroom styles, this is the one that most requires you to be an actor as well...
Perfect 10: The waltz By Zoë Anderson
This article first appeared in a series called Perfect 10 in Dance Today (www.dance-today.co.uk) The waltz is one of the oldest of ballroom dances. Across its long history, this dance has been both...
Results of Russian couples in WDC championships
RDU Couples – prize-winners of WDC official championships 2003 Sergey Ryupin and Elena Khvorova – World Latin Showdance Champions Dmitry Timokhin and Anna Bezikova –World Latin Championship 3d place 2004 Dmitry Timokhin and Anna...
The development of dancing in Russia
Submitted to DanceArchives by Stanislav Popov: 25 years of Russian Dance Union (RDU) 2012 is the year of anniversary for Russian Dance Union. Our organization is 25 years old now. We are happy to...
A clip of a typical Rumba British style from 1963
The Latin dances reached Europe during and after WW II. Excerpt from BALLROOM ICONS: “England, beset with etiquette, tenets and rules of conduct, and the U.S., the land of freedom of expression, each developed...
Blackpool, the dance Mecca. By Leonid Pletnev
By Leonid Pletnev “Dear friend! This time I’m writing to you from Blackpool — the dance Mecca, the sacred place for every dancer…” That was the beginning of my German friend’s letter which...
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