The 2010 United Kingdom Ballroom & Latin American Championships

UK Championships 2010 - Latin Competition

UK Championships 2010 - Ballroom Competition

Wating to Dance

General Dancing

What a great championships once again. On the Wednesday the previous World Champion Mirko Gozzoli trying to reclaim his crown with his new partner Edita Daniute, terrific support from the audience, new champions in the Amateur Latin Championships, fabulous dancing and great entertainment.

In all there were around 43 countries represented by dancers in the Ballroom & Latin Amateur & Professional ‘Rising Stars’, and the ‘Open Amateur & Professional Ballroom & Latin Championships’.

We had dancers from:

Ukraine – Australia – Austria – Japan – Finland – Portugal – Canada – England – Russia – Latvia – Germany – Italy – Netherlands – USA - France – Ireland – Hungary – China – Denmark – Poland – Iceland - Slovakia – Romania – Greece – Korea – Lithuania – Spain – Czech Republic – Moldova – Bulgaris – Estonia – South Africa – Sweden – Isreal – Holland – Norway – Slovenia - Iceland – Croatia – Taiwan – Belarus – Azerbaijan – Hong Kong.

All in Bournemouth in sunny UK?

Result were:

United Kingdom Open Amateur Latin Championship

1. Zoran Plohl & Tatsiana Lahvinovich – Croatia

2. Jurij Batagelj & Jagoda Strukelj – Slovenia

3. Neil Jones & Ekaterina Sokolova – England

4. Martino Zanibellato & Michelle Abildtrup – Denmark

5. Valentin Cherkovskiy & Daria Chesnovoka – USA

6. Dorin Frecautanu & Roselina Doneva – Moldova

United Kingdom Open Professional Ballroom Championship

 1. Aruns Bizokas & Katusha Demidova – USA

2. Mirko Gozzoli & Edita Damiute – Italy

3. Victor Fung & Anastasia Muravyeve – USA

4. Roberto Villa & Morena Colagreco – Italy

5. Domenico Soale & Gioia Cerasoli – Italy

6. Paulo Bosco & Silvia Pitton – Italy

United Kingdom Open Amateur Ballroom Champtionship

1. Andrea Ghigiarelli & Sara Andracchio – Italy

2. Emanuel Valeri & Tania Kehlet – Denmark

3. Simone Segatori & Annette Sudol – Germany

4. Frederico Di Tori & Genny Favero – Italy

5. Marat Gimaev & Alina Basyuk – Russia

6. Yang Chao & Tan Yi Ling – China

United Kingdom Open Professional Latin Championship

1. Michael Malitowski & Joanna Leunis – Poland

2. Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagoruychenko – USA

3. Franco Formica & Oxana Lebedew – Germany

4. Sergey Surkov & Melia – Russia

5. Slavik Kryklyvyy & Anna Melnokova – Russia

6. Andrej Skufca & Melinda – Slovenia

Dancing On Wheels

BBC to air new dance contest show – Commences on Thursday the 11th of February 2010 on BBC3

The celebrities and their partners will be trained by a professional dancer Actress Michelle Gayle and singer Heather Small are among the celebrities who have signed up to take part in a new BBC dancing competition. Dancing On Wheels is dancing as you have never seen before.Amazing is the word that springs to mind. BBC Three has set a first in the television dance world. It’s new six part show, starting in 2010, has celebrities dancing with wheelchair users in a bid to find the couple to represent Great Britain in the European Wheelchair Dance Sport Championships in Isreal. None of the wheelchair dancers has ever danced in his or her chair before, let alone ballroom and latin, and the celebrities have never danced with a partner in a wheelchair. So it’s a very different set up to strictly where at least one is a professional dancer. The celebrities, which include Mark Foster, Heather Small, Martin Offiah, Kevin Sacre, Caroline Flack and Michelle Gayle give their all in something very new in Great Britain, although the discipline is performed as a new paralympic recognised sport in over 23 countries around the world. There are the usual joy, tears and the odd tantrum in rehearsals, and the disapointments and the acheivements in the performances as well as looking into the lives of the wheelchair contestants. Judges are Strictly Come Dancing’s James and Ola Jordan and paralympian Ade Adeptian

Dance Partners

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