The week’s “Photo of the Week” features Pasha and Anastasiya dancing at the 2012 Manhattan DanceSport Championships. This was a fantastic competition for them and Brooklyn DanceSport Club as a whole. Pasha and Anastasiya have been on a roll, making the finals in many major competitions in the past 2 months and we wish them continued success. Pasha and Anastasiya are going to be preparing for the 2012 Latin World Championships in Vienna, Austria and we wish them much luck on this journey.
The Manhattan DanceSport Championships is an annual competition held on the 4th of July weekend at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriot in Brooklyn, NY and is organized by Gary and Diana McDonald. The competition features events for Amateur (from Pre-teen to Adult), Professional, and Pro-Am competitors and has continuously grown in popularity in the past decade! This year’s competition featured World Champions, Blackpool Dance Festival Finalists. Some of best competitors the competition has ever hosted!
Marat Gimaev and Alina Basyuk
Professional Standard Championship: 2nd
Andrei Kazlouski and Asta Sigvaldadottir
Professional Latin Championship: 3rd
Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina
Amateur Latin Championship: 4th
Pasha Stepanchuk and Anastasiya Danilova
Amateur Latin Championship: 6th
Stanislav Savich and Annie He Xiao
Rising-Star Professional Latin Championship: 1st
Professional Latin Championship: 13th
Dmitry Nikishkin and Olena Shvets
Amateur Latin Championship: 13th
Roma Lerner and Vera Iakovleva
Professional Rising-Star Latin Championship: 6th
Professional Latin Championship: 17th
Patryk Ploszaj and Anna Kaczmarski
Youth Championship Latin: 2nd
Youth Championship Standard: 2nd
Haley Yegorov and Milana Kogan
Junior I Silver Cha-Cha: 2nd
Junior I Gold Cha-Cha/Jive: 4th
Junior I Gold Samba: 5th
Timofey Rybolovlev and Daniella Pevzner
Junior II Novice Latin: 4th
Levy Agaronnik and Danielle Malpa
Junior I Novice Latin: 1st
Junior I Pre-Champ Latin: 2nd
Junior I Gold Standard: 2nd
Mark Stein and Bridget Frenkel
Junior I Silver Rumba/Jive: 6th
Junior I Silver Cha-Cha: 5th
Junior I Gold Rumba: 3rd
Daniel Ostrom and Ekaterina Kuleshova
Junior II Novice Latin: 1st
Junior II Pre-Championship Latin: 2nd
Junior II Novice Standard: 1st
Junior II Pre-Championship Standard: 3rd
Daniel Pechalov and Kristina Pidvirny
Junior I Silver Jive: 3rd
Junior I Silver Samba: 5th
Junior I Silver Rumba: 4th
Junior I Gold Rumba: 6th
Junior I Gold Jive: 5th
Mark Irgang and Sasha Pevtsov
Junior II Novice Latin: 3rd
Junior II Silver Ballroom: 1st
Michael Grandel and Adelina Ishkayeva
Junior I Pre-Champ Latin: 1st
Junior I Championship Latin: 1st
Jonathan Zaika and Hanna Sverdlov
Junior II Championship Latin: 3rd
Ryan Raffloer and Shelby Joy Cole
Youth Championship Latin: 7th
Ariel Milshteyn and Elizabeth Zeldin
Junior II Championship Latin: 6th
As the competition grows stiffer at the Manhattan DanceSport Championships, our couples seem to be always up for the challenge. With hours spent training on daily training, it is no wonder why 6 of our couples made 4 major finals.
Thursday evening was highlighted for BDSC by Stanislav Savich and Annie He winning the Rising Star Professional Latin as their first competition together as professionals! Stas and Annie truly looked like natural professionals on the dance floor together. Roman Lerner and Vera Iakovleva were fifth in the final!
With couples such as Riccardo Cocchi and Yuliya Zagoruychenko dancing in the Professional Latin on Friday evening, Andrei Kazlouski and Asta Sigvaldadottir were able to place third. Andrei and Asta keep improving and building on their amazing Blackpool Dance Festival result.
Saturday evening featured two major finals for BDSC couples. The Amateur Latin competition was the strongest it has ever been with 5 couples in the top 24 of the Amateur Latin in Blackpool. BDSC had two couples in the final, with Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina placing 4th and Pasha Stepanchuk and Anastasiya Danilova placing 6th.
On the eve of Marat’s birthday, Marat Gimaev and Alina Basyuk were runners-up at the Professional Standard only losing to World Champions, Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova. Marat and Alina showed an inspired form of dancing and displayed a rare form.
Today the younger generation of BDSC couples are performing and hopefully they will follow suit in their coaches’ footsteps!
Stanislav Savich and Annie He recorded their first win in the Professional Rising Star Latin at the Manhattan DanceSport Championships as they danced as Professionals for the first time together. This is an amazing result and their hard-work and dedication on the dance floor really is paying off. Stas and Annie also made the Quarter-Final of the Professional Latin, a result they can truly be proud of as well. It won’t be too long until they’ll be in the final!
As summer vacation is in full swing and the temperatures outside reach 100 degrees, couples continue to come to the dance studio to practice hard and do some really good dancing. With important competitions such as Manhattan DanceSport Championships and the Empire State DanceSport Championships just around the corner, BDSC couples keep dancing through their summer vacation. This week over 20 couples came to to our popular practice rounds !
This is the sort of dedication we at BDSC are truly proud of and the kind of work ethic that inspires everyone. It is not just the older couples practicing hard through this heat, but couples as young as 8 spend many hours taking private lessons, group classes, and most importantly practicing!
This inspirational image of our younger dancers bodes well for the future generation of ballroom dancing. It is not a surprise when some of our couples improve the most the summer! If you would like to come in and join the fun, give us a call or contact us. We look forward to seeing you soon!
