BLACKPOOL 2010:

Blackpool dance festival has begun and its just as wonderful as always. A dance lovers delight! The ballroom is fabulous, the music amazing,lots of outstanding dancing and it is only a few days in!
Entries are only down 11.38% -not much at all and the ballroom is as busy as ever!

The Worlds best Ballroom-The Worlds best dance Orchestra-The Worlds best Dancers-what more could any dance fan ask for!?

Quote from Dancebeat:
'Well here are the numbers!  Total printed entries this year are down 11.38% from 2009.  Certainly not the catastrophe that many were predicting.  Entries in all divisions except 1 were down but only the Rising Star Amateur Latin showed a really significant drop of 82 couples.  The total drop in entries over the whole week was 367 couples.  The only division to show an increase was the Professional Latin +5.'

SENIOR BALLROOM:

Congratulations to Senior Ballroom TeAm couples:
Cor & Hannie Zeeman who danced great in their first ever Blackpool and made the 96.
Ronny & Anne Romijn who made the 24- a round further than last year and Rene & Ymke who, despite Rene's knee operation only a few weeks ago, still managed to make the semi final!

SENIOR BALLROOM:

1     Slawomir Lukawczyk & Edna Klein Belgium   
2     Tassilo Lax & Sabine Lax Germany    
3     Vladimir Scherbakov & Natalia Ovcharenko Russia   
4     Eric Voorn & Charlotte Voorn Netherlands   
5     Pierre Payen & Isabelle Reyjal France  
6     Xingmin Lu & Katerina Lu  USA 

PROFESSIONAL RISING STAR LATIN:

1     Evgeni Smagin & Polina Kazatchenko Russia   
2     Joshua Keefe & Sara Magnanelli Italy   
3     Denis Podolski & Yuliya Kushnirenko USA   
4     Andrei Prosvirnin & Yulia Rogozina Russia  
5     Dmitry Zhukov & Maria Bopkova Russia   
6     Yegor Novikov & Ekaterina Zakharoff USA  
 

TEAM MATCH:
Congratulations to Alexander & Irina who danced their first ever Team Match for 'Asia' and did a fantastic job!
The whole Team Match was a fabulous event with the concentration being on dancing and the dancers-wonderful to see.

UNDER 21 LATIN:

1     Vjaceslavs Visnakovs & Tereza Kizlo Latvia   
2     Evgen Golichenko & Darya Byelikova Ukraine   
3     Dario Scuderi & Maria Mangione Germany  
4    Vladimir Litvinov & Aleksandra Akimova Russia  
5     Artur Tarnavskiy & Mariya Dyment Ukraine   
6     Zhivko Ivanov & Milla Lykke Denmark

 

AMATEUR RISING STAR BALLROOM:
Well done Yvo & Sze Ar for making the 96-two rounds further than last year!
Also Congratulations to Sebastian & Ciara for making the semi final (last year they were in the 48!) and a very happy Charles and Sarah from China (Chong He & Jing Shan) were SECOND!! Fabulous-you have worked very hard and you fully deserve it!

AMATEUR RISING STAR BALLROOM:

1     Lukasz Tomczak & Aleksandra Jurczak Poland 
2     Chong He & Jing Shan China
3     Stanislav Portanenko & Nataliya Kolyada Ukraine   
4     Ivo Lodesani & Monika Pedersen Denmark   
5     Jack Beale & Karolina Szmit England 
6     Steffen Zoglauer & Sandra Koperski Germany 

AMATEUR RISING STAR LATIN:

1     Sarunas Greblikas & Viktoria Horeva Latvia  
2     Damir Haluzan & Anna Mashchyts Slovenia   
3     Sergiy Chyslov & Darya Kadenkova Ukraine  
4     Anton Avramenko & Anna Kapliy Ukraine   
5     Stefano Oradei & Veera Kinnunen Sweden 
6     Pavel Pashkov & Daniella Karagach USA     
7     Carlos Custodio & Elena Plescenco Portugal

PROFESSIONAL RISING STAR BALLROOM:
Congratulations to Kristian and Anri who made the fabulous semi final of the Professional Rising star competition and danced out of their skins. A really strong event with seven rounds and a lot of great dancing.
Well done also to Andrew & Anna-Jing Wang & Yuan Yuan Hao and Qi Dang & Sun Yajie from China and Jun & Cellina from Korea for all making the 24 and of course well done to all our other couples who made the 48.

PROFESSIONAL RISING STAR BALLROOM:

1    Valerio Colantoni & Yulia Spesivtseva Italy 
2     Wiktor Kiszka & Malgorzata Garlicka Poland 
3     Eldar Dzhafarov & Anna Sazina Azerbaijan 
4     Alessio Potenziani & Veronika Vlasova Russia
5     Anton Lebedev & Anna Borshch Canada   
6     Denis Donskoy & Mariya Galtseva Russia 

SENIOR LATIN:
1     Petri Jarvinen & Ulla Jarvinen Finland   
2     Andreas Hoffmann & Isabel Krüger Germany  
3     Roberto Hernandez & Beatriz Perez Spain    
4     Vadim Kardash & Elena Skvortsova Russia 
5     Jouko Karppinen & Helena Merta Finland      
6     Slawomir Lukawczyk & Edna Klein Belgium 

UNDER 21 BALLROOM:

A big CONGRATULATIONS to Charles and Sarah for winning the Under 21 Youth Championship. Having already taken second place in the Amateur Rising Star competition they have had a fantastic week and once again danced a great comp. We are very proud of you both, see you soon in Hong Kong!

UNDER 21 BALLROOM:

1. Chong He & Jing Shan - China
2. Vladimir Rudko & Mariya Ivanova - Russia
3. Kyle Taylor & Liis End - England
4. Vasiliy Kirin & Ekaterina Prozorova - Russia
5. Mateusz Papuzynski & Katarzyna Czyzyk - Poland
6. Szymon Kulis & Margarita Zvonova - Estonia

AMATEUR LATIN:

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 Chmerkovskiy & Dariya Chesnokova - Usa
6. Dorin Frecautanu & Roselina Doneva - Moldova

PROFESSIONAL LATIN:

1     MichaEl Malitowski & Joanna Leunis Poland   
2     Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagorouitchenko USA   
3     Franco Formica & Oxana Lebedew Germany 
4     Sergey Sourkov & Agnieszka Melnicka Russia
5     Slavik Kryklyvyy & Anna Melnikova Russia   
6     Andrej Skufca & Melinda Torokgyorgy

AMATEUR BALLROOM:

Congratulations to Hansen and Carolina for their 6th place in the final. Also well done to Sebastian & Ciara who have had a great week and made the last 24 for the first time. (They didn't even make the 48 last year!!)
Our Dutch couples also had some good results with three TeAm couples making the evening session-Dennis & Samantha, Paul & Cynthia and Oscar and Pauline-Well done!
To all the other couples and TeAmies-well done for a great effort-you did the best you could so just learn from the experience.

AMATEUR BALLROOM:

1.Andrea Ghigiarelli & Sara Andracchio - Italy
2.Emanuel Valeri & Tania Kehlet - Denmark
3.Simone Segatori & Annette Sudol - Germany
4.Marat Gimaev & Alina Basiouk - Russia
5.Marek Kosaty & Paulina Glazik - Poland
6.Chao Yang & Yiling Tan - China

 

 

PROFESSIONAL BALLROOM:

What another fabulous night! We are very proud of all our couples they did their very best and had some wonderful results. Alex & Irina made all dances in the Semi Final and ended in 9th place, an amazing achievement for only their second ever Blackpool together!
Kristian & Anri made the 24 in their first Blackpool as Professional and also danced a great comp-well done.
Congratulations also to Jun & Cellina, Wang Jing & Hao Yuan-Andrew & Anna and Sergey & Tatiana who all made the 48 and of course to all our other hard working and talented couples. We are proud of you all.