Dance Matters

Valentine Chmerkovskiy ends competitive career. This is quite sad news and Valentine expresses his reasons as follows : I have decided to end my competitive dance career. It truly has been an amazing journey for me. I have been so very blessed with the incredible partners that I had the pleasure of growing and competing with. To them I say thank you from the bottom of my heart. Endless gratitude to the coaches that have given me so much, I am forever in debt. The knowledge that was shared with me, throughout the years, is worth more than any trophy I have ever won. The experience I gained from the countless hours of practice and performances, the character I built from the disappointments and failure, alongside with the love I gained for movement, music, and self-expression is something that has shap

Many people have questioned the Public Letters of Support for Ferrucio Galvagno and that he remains on the World DancesportFederation  (WDSF) Presidium even when expelled for life from the Italian WDSF member. Now a special news paper has been produced which sets out very many salient features that bring into question the integrity of the WDSF.  Recently we have seen WDSF publicise Letters from Rogge of the IOC and the Asian Olympic Council and now the question must be asked do the IOC condone such acts?  If not what action are they taking? It is quite disgraceful how Freitag again supports Galvano and Tondon and evades his responsibilities and says WDSF are not getting involved.    http://www.worlddancesport.org/doc/press/2011/Letter%20to%20all%20WDSF%20Members%20regarding%20FIDS%20situation%20110802.pdf http://www.informadanza.it/DSI_Special_edition.pd Is this the world in which the Banner

Below is an extract from a letter received in London from a member of Dancesport Australia. In case you have not heard the WDSF via Shawn Tay has refused to accept the entry of Arkady Bakenov & Rosa Filipello  and Jeremy Basile & Megan Wragg as the Australian Reps in their Worlds Latin event in Singaporebe cause they received a complaint from Denmark (we think) regarding these two couples dancing in Richard Gleave’s “Freedom to Dance “ event in London. S.T. has asked DSA to nominate two more couples which they are refusing to do It would be useless any way as couples ranked 3 & 4 and 5 & 6 alsodanced in the Freedom to Dance event. As you can imagine this is causing a fair amount of consternation here in Australia, especially for President Craig Wilson and those like him who totally support the WDSF. The newly formed Australian DanceSport Competitors Assoc., led by Matthew Rooke have entered the fray