Simply Dancing Blog

Noches de Tango – An Argentine Tango Show

Those of you who were at our dance last year when Flavio de Britto and his dancers gave an excellent Argentine Tango show, should be interested in his latest show – ‘Noches de Tango’.

The show is performed by Escuela de Tango Argentino and featuring Los Mareados Tango Band for further details go to www.tangowithflavio.co.uk

There are 4 dates around the area

2012 Tour Dates are as follows:

19th May at the Alexandra Theatre, Regis Centre, Belmont St. Bognor Regis PO21 1BL
£14, Concessions £12 – Box Office 01243 861010 or www.regiscentre.co.uk

9th June at the Pavilion Dance Centre, Westover Road, Bournemouth BH1 2BU
£12 – Box Office 01202 203630 or www.pavilliondance.com

23rd June at Camberley Theatre, Knoll Road, Camberley GU15 3SY
£15.50, Concessions £14.50 – Box Office 01276 707600 or www.camberleytheatre.biz

24th July at the Kings Theatre, Albert Road, Southsea PO5 2QJ£15, Concessions £13 – Box Office 023 92828282 or www.kings-southsea.com

All performances start at 7.30 pm

United Kingdom Championships 2012 at the BIC Bournemouth

Last week the United Kingdom Championships took place at the BIC in Bournemouth, There were 3 days of competitions during which there were 1241 entries from amateur and professional Ballroom and Latin American dancers from 45 countries across the world.

Countries represented were:

Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Chech Republic, China, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan. Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macau, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Wales.

As usual the organisation of this event was exemplary, fabulous music from Paul (time he replaced the tired, same old Ross Mitchell Orchestra – in my opinion) enjoyed by Amateur and professional dancers from around the world dancing to compete for these prestigious tiltles.

I was particularly impressed with the amateur dancers this year, the standard was very high. Good to see some readable choreography, particularly from the latin amateurs, sliding doors, checks (New Yorks to you and I), walks, underarm turns, fan, hockey stick etc.

If you haven’t been to this event before well worth the money.

Results of the UK Championships as follows:

Prefessional Latin
1. Michael Malitowski & Joanna Leunis – England
2. Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagoruychenko – USA
3. Sergey Surkov & Melia – Russia
4. Andrej Skufca & Melinda – Slovenia
5. Maurizio Vescovo & Andra Vaidilaitte – Canada
5. Anton Karpov & Ekaterina Lapaeva – Russia

Professional Ballroom
1. Arunas Bizokas & Katusha Demidova – USA
2. Mirko Gozzoli & Edita Daniute – Italy
3. Victor Fung & Anastasia Muravyeva – OSA
4. Andrea Ghigiarelli & Sara Andracchio – England
5. Domen Krapez & Monica Nigro – Slovenia
6. Valerio Colantoni & Spesivtseva – Russia

Amateur Latin
1. Neil Jones & Ekerterina Sokolova – England
2. Kirill Belorukov & Elvira Skrylnikova – Russia
3. Troels Bager & Ina Jeliazkova – Denmark
4. Ferdinando Iannaccone & Yulia Musikhina – Italy
5. Mirco Risi & Ermachkova – Italy
Nikita Brovko & Anastasia Melnikova – Russia

Amateur Ballroom
1. Chao Yang & Yi Ling Tan – China
2. Marek Kosaty & Paulina Glazik – Poland
3. Chong He & Jing – China
4. Lukasz Tomczak & Aleksandra Jurczak – Poland
5. Stanislav Portanenko & Nataliya Koliada – Ukraine
6. Sergiu Rusu & Dorotota Makar – Poland

Congratulations to China, I believe that this is their first UK Championship title since the Championships began in 1959?

New Beginners Ballroom & Latin American Dance Class in Worthing

We are pleased to announce that we will be starting a new Beginners dance class from the 27th of January 2012, an opportunity to learn the popular dances of Waltz, Cha Cha, Quickstep, Rumba, Tango, Jive etc.

Classes are a great way to learn to dance along with other like minded couples, who want to test themselves against the rhythms of the Latin dance music, the sophistification of the romantic Waltz, the lively quickstep and jive rhythms and the aggresive Tango music.

Classes are very informal and we try to move at a pace to suit everybody and we try to make the learning process a fun experience.

Ballroom dancing is two people dancing together, so you will need a partner, unfortunately we are not able to provide partners for you.

If you want more details contact us through the contacts page on the web site or call us, alternatively just turn up on the day and give it a try!

Classes commence of Friday the 27th of January 2012 at 6.45 pm until 07.40 – £6.00 per person, at Heene Community Centre, Heene Road, Worthing BN11 4PL (car park and entrance round the corner in Winchester Road).