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Site last updated: 20 Mar 2003

General News

UK RESULTS
UK Open Dance Championships are now available.

DANCE WEAR FASHION SHOW
There will be a fashion show oraginised by M.A.I. Enterprise Limited held in The Grand Theatre (2/F Western Market, 323 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong)on the 31st December 2002. There will be sneak preview of the Chrisanne 2003 ladies dancewear line.

JONATHAN CROSSLEY & KYLIE JONES SPLIT
Unexpected news from London dance scene: Jonathan Crossley and Kylie Jones, former undefeated Amateur World Champions have split. There are no information about Jonathan's or Kylie's future plans.

BLACKPOOL DETAIL RESULTS
For those of you who are interested in details... We now have the Blackpool detail results on our site.

BLACKPOOL RESULTS
The Blackpool results our now up on our site and we have picked out the results of the Greater China couples that might be of interest to our visitors.

INNOVATION IN VIENNESE WALTZ
IDSF Recommends The Introduction Of Additional Figures In The Viennese Waltz Realizing that it is time to update the more than a century old Viennese Waltz, the Presidium of the International DanceSport Federation, IDSF, decided to recommend the introduction of additional figures in the Viennese Waltz. Read more about this in the forum.

WORLD TEN DANCE - MODERN SECTION FINALISTS
The Finalists of the World Professionl Ten Dance Championships held in Hong Kong could be found in our Dancers' Corner. The semi-finalists could be found in our results section.

YIN & LONG IN ROYAL ALBERT HALL
Congratulations to David Yin Wei Dong & Angel Long Wei Min, being the first couple representing China to make it into the Royal Albert Hall for the International Championships in England. For the rest of the results on the championships please visit our results page. People who would like to congratulate David and Angel personally can write personal messages under the thread "Congratulation to David and Angel" in our Dancers' Corner.

GERMAN OPEN
The results for the German Open Championships 2001 are starting to come in. Keep an eye on our results page for the lastest up to date information.

WORLD GAMES RESULTS
The DanceSport competition, an official Medal Sport at the Games, was held on Saturday, August 25th and Sunday, August 26th in the Municipal Gymnasium in Akita. The results are now available at our results page. Here's a brief recap of the results:

Greater China Couples:

STANDARD			LATIN
17 - 18	Wei Wei / Guo Yage	China	19.- 20	Kevin Lin / Betty Liao	Chinese Taipei
20	Peter Chen / Tiffany Lee	Chinese Taipei
22.- 24	So Chin-Hong / Cheng Kong-Hung	Hong Kong

DISCUSSIONS HEATING UP
There are a couple of interesting topics that our forum members have started in the Dancers' corner. Come on in and have a look at some controversial dicussions and join in the fun!

AUGUST RECAP
As our regular visitors would have noticed our website have not been updated for quite a while since the beginning of August. This is due to problems with our service provider. Everything should be back to normal now and we are trying to update all the information we have onto the site as soon as possible. Some areas that will have a lot of updates will be results and second hand costumes page.

BABY HILTON
Congratulations to Marcus and Karen Hilton MBE, former British Open and World Professional Standard champions for the birth of their baby son, Henry James, on 12 July 2001. Both mother and baby are well.

AUGUSTO'S NEW PARTNER
Augusto Schiavo, current Professional Modern World and UK Open Champion, and Lyn Marriner have formally announced the birth of their new partnership and that they will soon be competiting on the floor. Great anticipation will undoubtedly be expected of this new beginning of Augusto following the break up of his previous partnership of 25 years which allegedly was the longest partnership in the recent history of professional competitions.

Previous news can be found in our news archive.

Hong Kong News

2001 HONG KONG RANKING WINNERS
The 2001 Hong Kong Ranking Ballroom Dancing Council Limited Ranking List is finalised. In the Professional Latin section, David Sin & Katherine Chak came in first. In the Professional Modern section, Jimmy Chan & Betty Wan also maintained their leading position in the first place winning the title 5 times in a row. The Hong Kong Amateur DanceSport Federation ranking for the year of 2001 is also closed. Unfortunately there was no winner in the amateur Latin ranking list. According to our sources, apparently since all of the Latin comeptitors did not dance the required amount of competitions (80% of the registered competitions held in Hong Kong) nobody was qualified for the title. In the amateur Modern section, the winners are 蘇志恒 / 楊淑儀. All the couples accepted their awards as the 2001 champions on 3rd November at the 2001 Hong Kong International Ballroom Dancing Championships.

DICKY/RUTHANA BIRTHDAY PARTY
Dicky Chan & Ruthana Chan's Birthday Party organised by Fai's Dance Studio held at Whampoa on the 18th October 2001. On that day was the Birthday for Ruthana. Many friends came and supported them including top champions from China 居曉風 , Hong Kong's Anthony Tang, Billy Wong & Mo Hau. They did a demonstration waltz on the day which pleased the audiences to no end. A new partnership, Rolex Lo & Joe Lo also performed a Basic Rumba to celebrate the event. The party was an immense sucess and sell-out event.

TOP PROFESSIONAL LATIN COUPLE SPLIT
It was annouced today (16 Oct 2001) that Rolex Lo and Linda Luk will no longer be dancing together. They will no longer be performing in the party on the 18th October 2001. Linda has also left Fai's Dance Studio.

DOUBLE SHOW
John Byrnes & Jane Lyttleton (British Latin Champions) and John & Jennifer Shih (16 times Modern Champion in Taiwan) will be performing in Studio Danciana's 2nd Anniversay Dinner Party. It will be held at Holiday Inn Golden Mile, Hong Kong on the 27 October. For more details please contact Sam Chow or Michelle Wong.

Previous news can be found in our news archive.

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Taiwan News

IDSF ASIAN PACIFIC & SOUTH PACIFIC RESULTS
Both couples Peter Chen & Tiffany and Jimmy Chan manage to get into the finals for both the IDSF Asian Pacific Championships and the South Pacific

BLACKPOOL SUM-UP
The 2001 Blackpool Dance Festival has been successfully concluded. Here is a brief recap of the results for some of the outstanding Chinese Taipei couples:

• Alex Hou & Melody Hou qualified in the third round of the Professional Rising Star Modern category (last 102 couples), Professional Modern category (last 104 couples) and Professional Latin category (last 104 couples) . They also qualified in the fourth round for the Professional Rising Star Latin category (last 48 couples) .
• Denny Wang & Dana Shen qualified in the third round of the Professional Rising Star Modern category and in the fourth round for the Professional Rising Star Latin category.
• Kevin Lin & Betty Liao qualified in the second qualifing round in Amateur Latin.
• Mark Chen & Irene Cheng qualified into the second round of Senior Modern.
  

For results of the other Chinese Taipei couples please refer to our Blackpool pages.

TOKYO 2001 IDSF INTERNATIONAL OPEN
Congratulations to Jimmy Chen & Kimberly Hsu who qualified in the semi-finals of the Tokyo 2001 IDSF International Open Latin Championships. To see how the rest of the Chinese Taipei competitors did in the competition please refer to our results page.

TAIWAN LATIN COUPLE IN TOP 96 OF UK CHAMPIONSHIP
Denny Wang & Dana Shen came in the best 96 in the United Kingdom Championships 2001 Professional Latin Catergory. More more UK results please check our results page.

SINGAPORE 2000 IDSF INTERNATIONAL OPEN
At the Singapore 2000 IDSF International Open held in Singapore on 1 April 2000, the Taiwanese team achieved very good results despite facing world-ranking opponents. In the Standard section, couples Peter Chen and Tiffany Lee, and Wang Chia-Ching and Huang Ching Hua made the semi-final. Kevin Lin and Batty Liao also made the quarter-final in the Latin section. For more results, please visit our Results section.

SINGAPORE 2000 IDSF INTERNATIONAL OPEN ATTENDANCE LIST
The competitors that will be attending the Singapore 2000 IDSF International Open DanceSport Tournament has been confirmed. This is one of the IDSF world ranking tournaments, these competitors will be dancing against the top seeds:
Dmitriy Timokhin & Anna Bezikova from Russia (No. 4 IDSF Latin), Arunas Bizokas & Edita Daniute from Lithuania (No. 3 Standard), Jussi Vaananen & Katja Koukkula from Finland (No. 10 Latin), Serguei Belikov and Irina Lapteva from Russia (No. 10 Standard) and Nikolay Kuznetsov & Petra Tomasovicova from Slovakia (No. 23 Standard).
(The rankings listed are the current rankings in the IDSF World Ranking list as of Februray 2000)

STANDARD	Peter Chen & Tiffany Lee
	Wang Chia-Ching & Huang Ching Hua
	Chao Chun-Lun & Lai Wei-Lin
LATIN	Kevin Lin & Batty Liao
	Jack Wu & Audrey Huang

Previous news can be found in our news archive.

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China News

BLACKPOOL SUM-UP
The 2001 Blackpool Dance Festival has been successfully concluded. Here is a brief recap of the results for some of the outstanding China couples:

• Michael Jun Ma & Shirley Rui Huang qualified in the fourth round of the Professional Rising Star Latin category (last 48 couples) and third round of the Professional Latin category (last 104 couples).
• Green Li Zhao Lin & Rose Li Xiao Yuan qualified in the quarter final of the Professional Rising Star Modern category (last 25 couples) and fourth round of the Professional Modern category (last 50 couples).
• Allen Wen Liang Fu & Anne Sun Rong qualified in the fourth round of the Professional Rising Star Modern category (last 49 couples) and third round of the Professional Modern category (last 102 couples).
• Zhang Jin & Luo Wenqing qualified into the second round of Under 21 Latin. (last 79 couples)
• Wang Lai Pu & Liang Xia Xiang qualified into the first round of Amateur Modern.
• Luo Jinsong & Chen Feng and Hu Yao & Jiang Ye qualified in the second qualifing round in Amateur Latin.

For results of the other China couples please refer to our Blackpool pages.

ANOTHER TWO CHINA COUPLES IN TOP 96
Both Yin Wei Dong & Long Wei Min and Michael Jun Ma & Shirley Rui Huang came in the best 96 of the Professional Latin Section of the UK Championship.

TWO CHINA COUPLES IN TOP 96 OF UK CHAMPIONSHIP
Green Zhao-Lin Li & Rosa Xiao-Yuan Li continue to get good results in the Professional Modern category and came within the best 48 couples. Allen Wen and Sun Rong came in the best 96.

BEST OF 24 IN UK CHAMPIONSHIP
Green Zhao-Lin & Li Rosa Xiao-Yuan Li came in the best 24 in the United Kingdom Championships 2001 Professional Rising Star Modern Catergory. More more UK results please check our results page.

14th CHINA PROFESSIONAL BALLROOM DANCING CHAMPIONSHIPS AND 3rd CHINA PROFESSIONAL BALLROOM DANCING "SHOW DANCE AWARD" RESULTS
The results for the aforementioned championships are now available at our results page.

BENNY TOLMEYER CUP
Michael Gao & Cathy Lin had great results in the Benny Tolmeyer Cup held on the 3rd December 2000 in Taiwan. They came 3rd in the Professional Latin category and came within the top eight couples in the Professional Modern category. An Amateur couple, Wilson Lee & Jenny Chen also went along and also got very good results. They came 3rd in the Amateur Latin beating Hong Kong's Andy Yau & Cat Ng and Ringo Chan and Elaine Chu. In the Amateur Modern Category they came sixrh.

TSINGTAO RESULTS
The results for the 13th China Ballroom Dancing Championship 2000 & 2000 Tsing Tao China "World Cup" Ballroom Dancing Championship orgainised by the China Culture & Art Union and China Ballroom Dancing Society are now available at our results page.

YOUTH & JUNIOR BALLROOM DANCING CHAMPIONSHIP
The 3rd China Youth & Junior Ballroom Dancing Championship 2000 will be held in Guangzhou in July, there will also be a Guangzhou Dance & DanceSport Championship held in the same event. Further details will be available soon.

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