Pasha and Anastasiya have just recorded their best results historically at a Blackpool Dance Festival by placing 17th (out of 346) in the Rising Star Amateur Latin at the 2013 Blackpool Dance Festival. Representing America as the 2013 USA Dance Amateur Latin National Champions, Pasha and Anastasiya showed how their hard work and dedication on the dance floor translates to their recent amazing results. They also placed an impressive 69th (out of 266) in the Amateur Latin competition, and we wish them a continued, steady improvement.
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Good Luck to All BDSC Couples Competing at the 2013 Blackpool Dance Festival in Blackpool, England
Starting today, BDSC is having a number of couples competing at this year’s Blackpool Dance Festival and we wish them the best of luck. From our two national Amateur Latin Champions, Pasha Stepanchuk/Anastasiya Danilova and Denys Drozdyuk/Antonina Skobina, to our Professional Standard coaches, Marat Gimaev and Alina Basyuk, these couples have been training hard for this moment and are ready for the year’s most prestigious competition. With all the hours put in by these couples on the practice floor, these couples are going to have amazing performances.
Congratulations to all BDSC Competitors who Competed at the 2013 American Star Ball in Atlantic CIty, New Jersey
The American Star Ball is an annual competition hosted by Ilya and Amanda in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the Golden Nugget. This year, we had a number of couples competing at the event and all our couples had fantastic results.
Briana Isakow and Pasha Stepanchuk
Pre-Teen I Closed Bronze Samba: 1st
Pre-Teen I Closed Bronze Cha-Cha/Rumba/Jive: 1st
Isabella Priven and Pasha Stepanchuk
Junior II Open Gold Latin: 2nd
Junior I Open Gold Cha-Cha: 2nd
Junior I Open Gold Samba/Rumba/Jive: 1st
Michael Grandel and Adelina Ishkayeva
Junior II Scholarship Latin: 6th
Christian Yeung and Samanta Filip
Youth Scholarship Latin: 3rd
Youth Scholarship Standard: 3rd
Daniel Ostrom and Ekaterina Kuleshova
Junior II Scholarship Standard: 3rd
Youth Pre-Champ Latin: 2nd
Junior II Scholarship Latin: 5th
Ariel Milshteyn and Dasha Ryndych
Youth Scholarship Latin: 6th
Junior II Scholarship Latin: 3rd
Lennox Ksido and Lauren Ksido
Junior I Closed Silver Cha-Cha/Samba: 5th
Junior I Closed Silver Rumba: 6th
Junior I Closed Silver Jive: 4th
Junior I Open Silver Cha-Cha/Samba: 5th
Junior I Open Silver Rumba: 3rd
Junior I Open Silver Jive: 2nd
Guy Platt and Freda Chan
Amateur Latin Championships: 2nd
Stanislav Pavlov and Jessica Karpishin
Youth Scholarship Latin: 2nd
Youth Scholarship Standard: 4th
Julian Sklyut and Sabrina Isakow
Junior II Pre-Champ Latin: 1st
Junior II Scholarship Latin: 7th
Mark Irgang and Anna Cernova
Youth Pre-Champ Latin: 1st
James Raykis and Sarrah Livson
Junior I Open Silver Cha-Cha: 3rd
Junior I Open Silver Samba: 4th
Junior I Open Silver Rumba/Jive: 5th
Junior I Closed Gold Cha-Cha: 4th
Junior I Closed Gold Samba: 6th
Junior I Open Gold Latin: 2nd
Stanislav Savich and Annie He Xiao
Professional Rising-Star Latin: 1st
Professional Latin Championships: 3rd
BDSC’s Two 2013 Amateur Latin United States National Champions featured on “Dance Beat”
This year, BDSC had 2 Amateur Latin National Champions with Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina becoming the 2013 United States Amateur Latin Champions and Pasha Stepanchuk and Anastasiya Danilova becoming the 2013 USA Dance Amateur Latin Champions. These two couples encompass what hard-work, dedication and perseverance can achieve. Both of these couple was featured on the Front Page of Dance Beat. We are proud of these couples and wish them further success defending their National titles.
Pasha Stepanchuk and Anastasia Danilova’s Rumba at 2013 Brooklyn DanceSport Club Anniversary
Sometimes the music dancers perform to is so beautiful that dancers never able to capture it. The guitar solo makes your soul weep, this is a special song and a mesmerizing performance by Pasha and Anastasia to match! This couple always dances from the heart and that is exactly why our hearts instinctively respond to their dancing.
Congratulations to all the BDSC Competitors at the Royal DanceSport Challenge in Stamford, Connecticut
The Royal DanceSport Challenge is an annual one-day competition hosted by Jonathan Wilkins and Esther Don in Stamford, Connecticut. This year, we had two Amateur couples and four Junior couples competing at the event. They did a fantastic job and we want to congratulate them on their well earned results.
Pasha Stepanchuk and Anastasia Danilova
Amateur Latin 1st
Guy Platt and Freda Chan
Amateur Latin 3rd
Leor Ratner and Jessica Ratner
Junior I Open Gold Cha 2nd
Junior I Open Gold Samba 2nd
Junior I Open Gold Rumba 1st
Junior II Open Gold Cha 2nd
Junior II Open Gold Samba 1st
Junior II Open Gold Rumba 2nd
Junior II Open Gold Jive 1st
Haley Yegorov and Elizabeth Tsidulko
Junior I Open Silver Cha Sa Ru Ji 2nd
Junior I Open Gold Cha 2nd
Junior I Open Gold Sa Ru Ji 1st
Daniel Pechalov and Kristina Pidvirny
Junior II Open Gold Cha Sa Ji 2nd
Junior II Open Gold Ru 3rd
Youth Open Gold Cha Sa Ru Ji 2nd
Mark Stein and Bridget Frenkel
Junior II Gold Cha Sa Ru Ji 1st
Junior I Gold Cha 1st
Junior I Gold Sa Ru Ji 2nd
Congratulations to Pasha Stepanchuk and Anastasiya Danilova for Winning and Guy Platt and Freda Chan for Placing 3rd in the Amateur Latin at the 2013 Royal DanceSport Challenge
The Royal DanceSport Challenge is an annual event that is organized by Jonathan Wilkins and Esther Don and BDSC had 2 couples place in the Top 3 of the Amateur Latin at the competition. Pasha and Anastasiya continued their strong results after becoming the 2013 USA Dance Amateur Latin National Champions by decisively winning the event while Guy and Freda are continuing to show consistent improvement in their results and dancing as a new couple, placing 3rd in the event. BDSC would like to thank these two couples for proudly representing us and we wish them much continued success.
Congratulations to Pasha Stepanchuk and Anastasiya Danilova for Placing 3rd in the Amateur Latin at the 2013 Crystal Leaf DanceSport Championships
At their first competition as the 2013 USA Dance Amateur Latin DanceSport National Champions, Pasha and Anastasiya placed an impressive 3rd in the Amateur Latin at the 2013 Crystal Leaf Dancesport Championships. Pasha and Anastasiya have been showing the best dancing of their careers and their results have shown that. They have placed in the top 3 in 3 of their last 4 competitions (winning 2 of those competitions) and have made the final of their last 6 competitions. Simply amazing dancing and results by this couple, and we wish them much continued success as the 2013 USA Dance National Champions.
“Photo of the Week” – All Our National Champions at the 2013 USA Dance National DanceSport Championships
This week’s “Photo of the Week” features all our US National Champions from this year’s USA Dance Nationals:
- Pasha Stepanchuk and Anastasiya Danilova – Amateur Latin Champions
- Evgeny Raev and Gabriella Sabler – Under-21 Latin Champions
- Patryk Ploszaj and Anna Kaczmarski – Youth 10-Dance Champions
- Patryk Ploszaj and Anna Kaczmarski – Youth Standard Champions
- Larry Tokar and Juliana Hoff – Adult Latin Pre-Champ Champions
- Yuriy Markovetskiy and Sara Filip – Junior II Gold Latin Champions
The year that BDSC also had over 2 dozen final appearances and a miraculous 14 of 15 couples making at least one final, it is our National Champions that truly headline this year’s Nationals. All 5 of these couples have trained hard for this opportunity and are now National Champions! It is time to defend these titles next year!
Thank You to the BDSC Coaching Staff for Making BDSC’s Success at the 2013 USA Dance National DanceSport Championships Possible
As hard as our students practice and as much time and effort that they devote to the sport of dance, their success at the 2013 USA Dance Nationals DanceSport Champions and in general would not be possible without the even harder work and dedication that our coaching staff commits to their students, our members and the studio. The level to which our coaches exert themselves is quite remarkable considering that they are up on their feet and active from morning until night. This dedication from our coaches and the atmosphere that they create in the studio is exactly why BDSC has had so much recent success! Thank you to the coaching staff of BDSC, Eugene Katsevman, Maria Manusova, Marat Gimaev, Alina Basyuk, Pasha Stepanchuk, Anastasiya Danilova, Artur Tarnavskyy, Patrycja Golak, Dmitry Nikishkin, Olena Shvets, Andrei Kazlouski, and Asta Sigvaldadottir, for going that extra mile for our members and for the studio.