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The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival is the world's first and most famous annual ballroom dance competition of international significance, held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England, since 1920. It is also the largest ballroom competition: in 2013, 2953 couples from 60 countries took part in the festival.
The British Sequence Championships for children takes place as part of the Blackpool Junior Dance Festival, running since 1947. [8] They start on Easter Monday each year and run for a week. Until 2010, when increasing numbers prompted a move to the Empress Ballroom, they had been held at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool Tower. The events ...
It also hosts numerous dance competitions, such as the British Sequence Championships and the Blackpool Dance Festival, an annual ballroom dance competition, since its inception in 1920. [8] On 1 March 1974, the ballroom was the venue for the opening concert of Queen's first ever headlining tour of the UK. [9] [10] [11]
Titles refer to themes and music that the routines were based around. Blackpool refers to competitions run as part of Blackpool Dance Festival (previously referred to British Open and British Closed). Blackpool acts as the national selection competition as only two English teams can be sent to the World Championships.
Blackpool Dance Festival; British Sequence Championships; I. Inter Varsity Dance Competition; International Dance Organization; N. New Zealand Open Dance Championship; U.
Barbara Joanne McColl Stopford BEM (née McColl) is a Scottish professional ballroom dancer, teacher, and adjudicator.She specializes in International Latin. With Sammy Stopford, she won in the professional Latin category four times at the Blackpool Dance Festival and three times at the UK Open.
Michael Malitowski is a ballroom dancer, a former World Latin Dance Champion [1] with his partner Joanna Leunis. Michael (christened Michał ) was born 28 May 1980, in Zielona Góra , Poland . His partnership with Leunis has, since 2002, resulted in a string of victories: in 2008 and 2009 they won the World Professional Latin title, and in 2012 ...
As dance partners, their best result was winning Professional Latin at Blackpool Dance Festival in 1983. [5] In 1985, she married American ballroom dancer Corky Ballas. [1] Together their best results were winning Professional Latin at Blackpool Dance Festival in 1995 [6] and 1996 [7] The pair moved to Houston, Texas to compete in the US