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competition
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Raising questions about “Amateurs” in competitive ballroom dance
By Denys Drozdyuk
The term Amateur as it is used in today's competitive ballroom dancing is misleading, mismatched, and somewhat harmful to the dancers themselves. The way that the word "Amateur" is perceived by the dancesport industry is not the way that it is perceived by the outside world. This mismatch in perception raises problems, questions, and concerns
Good design and Ballroom dancing
By Sasha Pust Every year, couples from all over the world come to the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool…
Ethics and Adjudication
By Anna Malitowska An ethicist’s view Contrary to the erroneous but popular opinion it is not an ethicist’s…
The homogeneous nature of competitive ballroom & latin dancing
By Gregg Rosen I believe there are three factors today in the homogeneous nature (of a similar kind)…
Authenticity versus commercialism
Comments by Barbara Nagode Ambroz I welcome your courage to address certain areas of competitive Ballroom and Latin-American…
Authenticity versus commercialism
Comments by Fred Bijster’s Where is the Magic in our minds? The words bored, tired, disappointed as mentioned…
Authenticity versus commercialism Part I
By Ekaterina Lapaeva Recently, attending the UK Open Championships in my newly formed role of non participant, I…
Results of Russian couples in WDC championships
RDU Couples – prize-winners of WDC official championships 2003 Sergey Ryupin and Elena Khvorova – World Latin Showdance…
Changing the system of judging
In dancing judges have the final word and the main focus lies on the comparison of assessment and application of skills of the competitors on the day. Declaring the winner by use of the skating system (in principle a majority decision). The judges will place the dancers in order of merit, not assess the individual quality, but the order. What better way to do this than by seeing all these couples at the same time, under the same conditions?
The Sense and Nonsense of Doping
The use of drugs in some sports is very easy to understand: sports where speed, power, endurance are prominent are good examples (athletics, biking, etc) to create positive effects on the results.