MIT 2008 Show Couple Announced

Just a quick plug for the MIT Open Ballroom Competition 2008. First, a bit of catch up news. The Professional Blackpool Latin finalist couple of Maxim Kozhevnikov and Yulia Zagoryuchenko have split. Yulia has announced her new partnership with Ricarrdo Cocchi.

As a follow up to this news, the MIT competition has announced through email(web to be updated soon) that Ricarrdo and Yulia will be doing the show for the MIT 2008 competition. The competition will be held on April 19th and 20th on the MIT campus. Check the website http://ballroom.mit.edu/comp for updates.

2007 USA Nationals - Youth Latin Finals videos

Videos of the Youth Champ Latin finals. Dance-ons included.

Placements:

1) 141 Armen Petrosyan & Nicole Pyatetskaya - NY
2) 244 Tal Livshitz & Kate Kapshandy - NJ
3) 215 Kiki Nyemchek & Nesya Serebro - NJ
4) 394 Max Belozerov & Kristine Avsjukevich - NY
5) 302 Stan Faynerman & Patrycja Golak - NY
6) 420 Leonid Juashkovsky & Danielle Karagach - NY
7) 406 Peter Gelzhinsky & Mila Burdan - MA

2007 USA Nationals - Champ Latin Finals

Videos from Champ Latin finals are up, includes 6 dance ons. Placements were:
1) 127 Eugene Katsevman & Maria Manusova - NY
2) 243 Valentin Chmerkovskiy & Valeriya Kozharinova - NJ
3) 311 Grigori Sedrakyan & Lilit Avagyan - CA
4) 232 Pasha Pashkov & Inna Brayer - NY
5) 214 Sergey Onik & Niicole Volynets - NJ
6) 381 Aleksey Zaika & Sharen Pyatetskaya - NY




I will put up youth latin, and other rounds of champ latin soon. Also, you can find all results at http://www.o2cm.com and click on results.

2007 USA Amateur Nationals - Champ standard videos

We just got back from Louisville, KY. Results are as follows:
1) 230 Andrea Faraci & Erica A. Ridgeway - CA
2) 451 Andrey Klinchik & Yuliya Klinchik - NY
3) 232 Pasha Pashkov & Inna Brayer - NY
4) 265 Russ Wilder & Katusha Wilder - NJ
5) 128 Andrzej Bator & Angelika Orent - NY
6) 193 Mechyslav Pavlyuk & Margaret Midura - NJ
7) 144 Kamil Nieroda & Karina Kalisz - nj

Congratulations to all!




I'm working on adding more videos in the next few days.

Eugene and Maria farewell rumba

Eugene and Maria won their 11st nationals, and announced that it will be their last.  Their honorary rumba video is below.

EDIT: added them receiving their applauses and goodbyes from other competitors:

Photos from Yankee Classic on Dancesportinfo

I'm finally done with the photos from Yankee Classic. They are in my Dancesportinfo gallery. I still have one more set to go (from Manhattan) and Nationals are coming up.

On this photo, Andre Strinadko and Olga Kinnard, a professional couple from Boston. Cool dress, though she changed for the final.

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Manhattan Dancesport

I'm going to try to update the blog more frequently. Just a quick note, good luck to those going to Manhattan Dancesport this weekend. We may have a photographer going there.

Some photos from Yankee Classic

Just a quick update. I'm still working on the pictures from the Yankee Classic, and I have a lot of them. So stay tuned. Here are some for your entertainment meanwhile. The first one is of Jose Decamps and Joanna Zacharewicz. Wow! These people know how to make audience excited. The second picture is of Max and Yulia, the show couple.

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Yankee Classic. Friday

Yankee classic is on the way. I didn’t notice any couples from outside of the US-Canada area on Friday evening. Here are the winners of pro standard and rising star latin.