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The ballroom was red hot on Tuesday night’s semifinals of Dancing With the Stars as the five remaining couples delivered two standout performances: a ballroom routine and a technical Latin dance ...
In general, steps are kept compact and the dance is danced generally without any rise and fall; this is the modern ballroom technique of cha-cha-cha (and other Latin dances). For international ballroom competitions, the World Dance Council requires the cha-cha-cha music to be played at a tempo of 30 bars per minute, [12] the World DanceSport ...
Ten international style ballroom dances—five Standard and five Latin—are defined by the World Dance Council (WDC), which has world-wide membership of all countries taking part in ballroom competitions. The WDC incorporates various groupings and former titles, such as the World Dance and DanceSport Council (former title). The WDC is the ...
Latin dance is a general label, and a term in partner dance competition jargon. It refers to types of ballroom dance and folk dance that mainly originated in Latin America, though a few styles originated elsewhere. The category of Latin dances in the international dancesport competitions consists of the Cha-cha-cha, Rumba, Samba, Paso Doble ...
The International Latin American Dance Championships were created after the Second World War in England by Elsa Wells, and are now organised by Dance News special events. The current full title is the Elsa Wells International Dance Championships , and includes all categories in Standard and Latin American ballroom dance.
Intermediate level international style Latin dancing at the 2006 MIT ballroom dance competition. A judge stands in the foreground. In competitive ballroom, dancers are judged by diverse criteria such as poise, the hold or frame, posture, musicality and expression, timing, body alignment and shape, floor craft, foot and leg action, and presentation.
U.S. National Professional Latin. Ballroom Dance / Dancesport Champions [1] [2] 1964-1969 Larry Silvers & Betty Silvers Maryland 1971 Bob Medeiros & Sheryn Hawkins Massachusetts 1972-1973 Vernon Brock & Beverly Donahue New Jersey 1974 Frank Regan & Victoria Regan Canada 1975-1978 Vernon Brock & Linda Dean Texas 1979-1985 Ron Montez & Elizabeth ...
The Ballroom Technique, (numerous reprints and editions since 1948) originally based on a work of the same name by Alex Moore. The Revised Technique of Latin-American Dancing, (reprints and editions since 1971) Popular Variations in Latin-American Dancing, (1982) Guy Howard, Technique of Ballroom Dancing; Walter Laird: Technique of Latin Dancing