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The United States national professional ballroom dance champions are crowned at the United States Dance Championships (formerly USDSC, and USBC), as recognized by the National Dance Council of America (NDCA) and the World Dance & DanceSport Council (WD&DSC). The 9-dance division consists of American-style smooth waltz, tango, foxtrot, Viennese ...
Anna Demidova (Russian: Анна Демидова) (born April 23, 1988) is a Russian-American professional ballroom dancer, actress and model.She is the winner of the professional dancer competition of Dancing with the Stars, Season 8, which guaranteed her a spot as a professional dancer in Season 9 and has been featured in many popular magazines worldwide.
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 . World Championships of a sort have been held in ballroom dancing since 1909 when Camille de Rhynal held annual championships in Paris.
The United States national professional ballroom dance champions are crowned at the United States Dance Championships (formerly United States DanceSport Championships, USDSC, and United States Ballroom Championships, USBC), as recognized by the National Dance Council of America (NDCA) and the World Dance & DanceSport Council (WD&DSC).
Dancesport is competitive ballroom dancing, [1] as contrasted to social or exhibition dancing. In the case of Para dancesport, [ 2 ] at least one of the dancers is in a wheelchair . Dancesport events are sanctioned and regulated by dancesport organizations at the national and international level, such as the World DanceSport Federation .
Ballroom dance may refer, at its widest definition, to almost any recreational dance with a partner. However, with the emergence of dance competition (now known as Dancesport ), two principal schools have emerged and the term is used more narrowly to refer to the dances recognized by those schools.
The dances that make up the list of DanceSport dances are performed competitively at amateur and professional levels throughout the world. 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.
PARIS — When Noah Lyles put his spike into Stade de France’s purple track for his first stride Sunday night of the Paris Olympics 100-meter final, he was already behind.