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The World Dance Council Ltd (WDC), is a registered limited company, the legal successor to the International Council of Ballroom Dancing, and was established at a meeting organized by Phillip J. S. Richardson on 22 September 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland. From 1996 to 2006 the WDC was known as the World Dance & Dance Sport Council Ltd (WD&DSC). [1]
This page lists the official World Champions – Professional Ballroom of the World Dance Council (WDC), and its historical predecessors. The championships are authorized and organized under the auspices of the WDC. The designation Ballroom replaces the previously used Modern or Standard in WDC terminology; it does not include the latin dances.
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 ...
October 11–13: WC Standard Senior II & Ten Dance Senior I in Rotterdam; October 27: WC Ten Dance Senior II in Vagos; November 1–2: WC Ten Dance Senior U-21 & Latin Senior III in Platja d'Aro; November 9: WC Latin Senior I in Dresden; November 9: WC Ten Dance Youth in Vila Nova de Famalicão; November 16: WC Latin U-21 in Salaspils
The fan-favorite NBC News personalities got up on their feet during the Third Hour of the Today show on Monday, Oct. 16, where they got to participate in a live dance session with Kristen Sudeikis.
The WDC represents all the major professional DanceSport countries. Unofficial world championships were held, usually in Paris, by several organisers pre- World War II . Some of these events included one or two Latin dances in the same competition as ballroom dances.
The World Dance Council (WDC) is a registered limited company, and the legal successor to the International Council of Ballroom Dancing (ICBD), which was formed in 1950 in Edinburgh. [8] The WDC operates through a general council and two committees: The World Dance Sport Committee regulates professional dancesport at the international level.
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.