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 and Blackpool Dance Festival Champions; some of best competitors the competition has ever hosted!
Marat Gimaev and Alina Basyuk
Professional Standard Championships: 2nd
Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina
Amateur Latin Championships: 4th
Pasha Stepanchuk and Anastasiya Danilova
Amateur Latin Championships: 8th
Dmitry Nikishkin and Olena Shvets
Professional Latin Rising-Star Championships: 3rd
Professional Latin Championships: 11th
Stanislav Savich and Annie He Xiao
Professional Latin Championships: 12th
Patryk Ploszaj and Anna Kaczmarski
Under-21 Standard Championships: 3rd
Youth Standard Championships: 1st
Levy Agaronnik and Simona Vigodner
Youth Pre-Champ Latin: 4th
Junior 2 Latin Championships: 9th
Benjamin Swiatkowski and Anna Bartnicki
Junior II Pre-Champ Ballroom: 1st
Junior II Pre-Champ Latin: 7th
Daniel Pechalov and Kristina Pidvirny
Junior II Novice Latin: 4th
Junior II Open Gold Cha-Cha/Samba/Jive: 1st
Junior II Open Gold Rumba: 2nd
Mark Stein and Bridget Frenkel
Junior I Gold Cha-Cha/Samba/Rumba: 1st
Junior I Gold Jive: 5th
Junior II Gold Rumba/Jive: 1st
Junior II Gold Cha-Cha/Samba: 2nd
Daniel Ostrom and Ekaterina Kuleshova
Youth Pre-Champ Latin: 3rd
Junior II Standard Championships: 5th
Haley Yegorov and Elizabeth Tsidulko
Junior I Gold Cha-Cha: 5th
Junior I Open Gold Latin: 4th
Junior II Gold Cha-Cha/Samba: 1st
Junior II Gold Rumba: 2nd
Junior II Gold Jive: 3rd
Haley Yegorov and Shelli Gorokhovsky
Junior I Gold Standard: 1st
Junior I Silver Standard: 1st
Leor Ratner and Jessica Ratner
Junior I Open Novice Latin: 5th
Junior I Open Gold Cha-Cha: 1st
Junior I Open Gold Samba/Rumba/Jive: 2nd
Timofey Rybovlev and Sasha Davydova
Junior II Open Novice Latin: 3rd
James Raykis and Sarrah Livson
Junior I Open Gold Samba/Rumba/Jive: 5th
Junior I Open Gold Cha-Cha: 6th
Junior I Gold Samba: 7th
Jonathan Zaika and Hanna Sverdlov
Junior II Latin Championships: 4th
Youth Latin Championships: 7th
Andrey Solovyev and Rebecca Korol
Pre-Teen I Pre-Bronze Latin: 3rd
Pre-Teen I Pre-Bronze Tango: 2nd
Pre-Teen I Pre-Bronze Waltz/Quickstep: 1st
Eric Frenkel and Bridget Frenkel
Singles P1 International Bronze Latin: 2nd
Christine Florio and Pasha Stepanchuk
Amateur International Gold Latin: 1st
Emily Chervinsky and Pasha Stepanchuk
Singles P1 International Bronze Latin: 1st
Emily Eppel and Pasha Stepanchuk
Singles P1 Gold Latin: 1st