Stas Portanenko & Nataliya Koliada
Stas Portanenko & Nataliya Koliada started dancing together in 2008 (August) as Amateur for Ukraine. Currently they are registered as a couple in Ukraine and they dance in Professional.
Their first competition was in Byelorussia - Gomel on 2008 (September). So far their best mark is placing 1st in the Professional Open Standard (Singapore Open Championships 2018 in Singapore - Singapore on Saturday, 20 October 2018).
Watch them dance HERE >
Eldar Dzhafarov & Anna Sazina
Eldar Dzhafarov & Anna Sazina started dancing together in 2004 (January) as Youth for Azerbaijan. Currently they are registered as a couple in Azerbaijan and they dance in Professional Ballroom.
Their first competition together was in England - Frimley Green on 2004 (January). So far their best mark is placing 1st in the Pro Standard (Milano Grand Ball 2018 in Italy - Milan on Saturday, 20 January 2018).
Andres & Veronika End
Andres End & Veronika End started dancing together in 2009 (January) as Youth for Estonia. Currently they are registered as a couple in USA. They dance in Professional .
Their first competition that was in England - Bournemouth on 2009 (January). So far their best mark is 1st place in the U.S. National Amateur Ballroom Champ (W,T,VW,F,Q) (US National Amateur Dancesport Championships in USA - Provo (UT) on Wednesday, 08 March 2017).
Read more about them in our blog HERE >
Watch them dance on YouTube HERE >
Steven Grinbergs & Rachelle Plaass
Steven Grinbergs & Rachelle Plaass started dancing together in 2003 (July) as Junior. Currently they are registered as a couple in Australia. They dance in Professional.
Their first competition was in Australia - Carlisle on 2003 (July). So far their best mark is 1st in the Professional Standard (ADS Premiere Dancesport Championship in Australia - Melbourne on Sunday, 16 September 2018).
Recent Achievements:
Undefeated Australian Professional Ballroom Champions for the past 3 years
Previous Blackpool Professional Rising Star Finalists
Previous Blackpool Professional Quarter Finalists
Represented Australia at the Blackpool Team Match dancing for Team Australasia
Watch them dance HERE
Salvatore Sinardi & Viktoriya Kharchenko
Salvatore Sinardi & Viktoriya Kharchenko started dancing together in 2014 (August) as Amateur. Currently they are registered as a couple in Italy. They dance in Amateur .
So far their best result is 1st in the WDC World Cup Amateur Latin (CTC Cup Championship 2018 in Taiwan - Taipei on Saturday, 07 July 2018, finalists in the International 2016-2017, UK Open 2018 and Blackpool 2017-2018. 3rd place in World Championship in Paris 2017, 4th place in the World Championship Paris 2016.
Watch them dance HERE
Alieksandr Lavrov and Vilhelmina Lavrov
Alieksandr Lavrov and Vilhelmina Lavrov started dancing together in January 2018 in Youth. They are competing for Sweden. They are Swedish vice champions in WDC and WDSF and currently ranked as nr 1 couple in both federations. So far their best result is getting into 1st place in the Fred Astaire Cup Under 21 Ballroom (WDC AL Open World Championships 2018 in France - Paris on Thursday, 06 December 2018). They got married 8th of July 2018.
They have achieved:
Milano Grand Ball under 21 finalists | Best couple from the Nordic Countries in UK Amateur Rising Stars | Best Scandinavian couple 2018 in Amateur WDC AL | Winners of the Fred Astaire Cup under 21 | Fred Astaire Cup Amateur semifinalists | Dutch Open Youth Under 21 semifinalists | 2nd place Helsingborg Trophy Adult | Imperial Championships U21 semi finalists | Nordic Championship Adult Finalists Elite Dance Autumn Adult 2nd place | 2x Swedish Amateur Vice-Champions Quick&Quick Trophy Adult 2nd place | Riga Dance Festival Amateur 1st place, Premiere Amateur 2nd place
Read more about them HERE >
Diego Arias Prado and Ekaterina Ermolina
Diego & Katya started dancing together in 2009 (August) as Amateur. Currently they are registered as a couple in Spain. They now dance in Professional.
They are doing really well together and so far their best mark is 1st in the Professional Rising Star Ballroom (Blackpool Dance Festival 2018 in England - Blackpool on Thursday, 24 May 2018). Winners of RS Professional Ballroom in Blackpool and top 15 Blackpool and International.
Watch them dance HERE
Alex Gunnarsson & Ekaterina Bond
Alex Gunnarsson & Ekaterina Bond started dancing together in 2017 (November) as Amateur. Currently they are registered as a couple in Iceland.
So far their best mark is getting into 8th place in the Amateur Ballroom (Freedom to Dance 2018 in England - Copthorne on Saturday, 12 May 2018).
Yuji Hiroshima & Arisa Ishiwata
Yuji Hiroshima & Arisa Ishiwata started dancing together in 2016 (June) as Professional for Japan. Currently they are registered as a couple in Japan and dance Professional Ballroom.
Their first competition together was in China - Shanghai on 2016 (August). So far their best mark is placing 6th in the Professional RS Ballroom Open Championship (2016 Blackpool Dance Festival China in China - Shanghai on Friday, 19 August 2016).
Nick Kelly & Cheyenne Russell
Nicholas Kelly & Cheyenne Russell started dancing together in 2011 (March) as Youth Currently they are registered as a couple in England. They dance in Professional.
So far their best mark is getting into 1st place in the UK Closed Amateur 10 Dance (Bournemouth Summer Festival 2017 in England - Bournemouth on Thursday, 27 July 2017).
Watch them dance HERE
Nikita Druzhinin & Anastasyya Slyusar
Nikita Druzhinin & Anastasyya Slyusar started dancing together in 2016 (August) as Youth Currently they are registered as a couple in Ukraine.
Their best mark is place 1st in the Youth II Standard (Parade of Hope 2017 in Ukraine - Kyiv on Saturday, 25 February 2017).
Watch them dance HERE
Yuji Hiroshima & Arisa Ishiwata
Yuji & Arisa have been dancing together since June 2016 and their best mark is placing 6th in the Professional RS Ballroom Open Championships at the Blackpool Dance Festival China in 2016.
Yuki Kageyama & Ena Miyahara
Yuki & Ena started dancing together in April 2016 as Amateur. They are registered as a couple in Japan and so far their best mark is 1st place in the 4th Amateur All-Japan Dance Championships (In Japan - Tokyo on Sunday, 16 October 2016).
Michael Foskett and Nika Foskett
Michael & Nika started dancing together in 2013 (April) as Youth and currently are competing as Amateurs. Their most recent successes includes being British National Amateur Ballroom Finalists, International and British Open Amateur Ballroom Quarterfinalists and European Amateur Ballroom Semi finalists.
This year they have had many successful competitions including making the quarterfinal of the International Championships in October 2018, placing 5th in the British Nationals and so far this year competing at the Star Ball, UK Open and Milano Grand Ball 2019.
Instagram pages: @michael_foskett and @foskett_nika
Facebook page: Michael and Nika.
website: michaelandnika.com.
Watch them dance HERE
Read more about them in our interview with them HERE >
Caroline Privou and Petra Zimmermann
Caroline and Petra started dancing together in 2001 in Cologne. Current German, European and World Champion Female Same Sex Ballroom. So far their best mark is 1 in the Senior 1 NL 5 dance Ballroom (Cacarola Dance Festival in England - Bromley on Sunday, 19 February 2017). They defended their title as German Champions last weekend 06 May 2017.
Watch them dance HERE
Alex Shindila and Jade Main
Alexander Shindila and Jade Main is a relatively new partnership with their Professional debut in July 2015. They are the current World Professional Ten Dance Champions and the current European Professional Ten Dance Champions.
Also recently winning Open to the World Professional Ballroom Grand-Prix in Blackpool, Great Britain.
Watch them dance HERE
Jack Beale & Nataliia Siyanko
Jack & Nataliia Siyanko started dancing together in 2012 (October) as Amateur. Currently they are registered as a couple in England. They dance in Amateur and so far their best mark is 1 in the SNL Amateur Ballroom Champ (West of England Open Championships 2016 in England - Bristol on Sunday, 30 October 2016).
Watch them dance HERE
Anna Pelipenko and Kamil Studenny
Kamil & Anna started dancing together in 2013 (March) as Professional. Currently they are registered as a couple in Canada. They dance in Professional and so far their best mark is 1 in the Open Professional Latin (CC/S/R/PD/J) (Michigan Dance Challenge in USA - Dearborn (MI) on Wednesday, 22 March 2017).
Watch them dance HERE
Ben Taylor and Stefanie Bosson
Ben Taylor & Stefanie Bossen started dancing together in 2008 (April) as Youth Currently they are registered as a couple in England. They dance in Professional and so far their best mark in our is 1st Place in the Amateur Ballroom (Central SL Open Grand Prix 2017 in England - Cheslyn Hay on Sunday, 10 September 2017).
Watch them dance HERE
Eric Voorn and Charlotte Voorn
Eric & Charlotte started dancing together in 1999 (October) as Senior. Currently they are registered as a couple in Netherlands. They are 6 times Blackpool Finalists (and 8x Semi-Finalists); 13 times International Open (Brentwood) Finalists; 3 times World Champions WDC Paris; 2 times Bournemouth Masters Senior Ballroom Champions; 6 times WDC Dutch Champions; 6 times Dutch NADB Champions; 5 times Dutch Open Assen Champions.
Watch them dance HERE
Carlos & Susan Sun
Carlos & Susan Sun started dancing together in 2011 (March) as Youth for China. Currently they are registered as a couple in China and they dance in Amateur Latin.
Their first competition was in England, Blackpool and so far their best mark is getting in 1st place in the under 21 Latin at the WDC World Cup in China.
Zilong Wang & Celine Li Yang
Zilong Wang & Celine Li Yang started dancing together in February 2012 as Professional Latin for China.
Their first competition was in Taiwan - Taipei on 2012 (February). So far their best mark is 1stplace in the Asia Closed Professional CSRPJ Latin (Asia International Dance Championships 2017 in Hong Kong on Tuesday, 04 July 2017).
Yi Long Xu & Lin Yue Shi
Yi Long Xu & Lin Yue Shi started dancing together in 2008 (March) as Youth for China. Currently they are registered as a couple in China. They dance in Professional Latin.
Their first competition was in England - Blackpool on 2008 (May). So far their best mark is getting into 1stplace in the Asia Closed Pro Latin CSRPJ (2017 ADO Asian Tour - Hong Kong Open Championships in Hong Kong - Hong Kong on Sunday, 12 March 2017).
Qiu Yuming (Joe) & Liyang Wei (Sophia)
Qiu Yuming & Liying Wei started dancing together in 2014 (April) as Amateur Ballroom for China.
Their first competition was in Hong Kong in 2014 (May). So far their best mark is placing 1st in the WDSF Asian Pacific Championship Standard (WDSF Shenzhen 2018 in China - Shenzen on Saturday, 01 December 2018).
Mei Lan (Blueberry) & Yi Qu
Mei Lan & Yi Qu started dancing together in 2018 (August) as Amateur Latin for China.
Their first competition that is recorded in our database was in Germany - Stuttgart on 2018 (August). So far their best mark in our database is getting into 9thplace in the WDSF International Open Latin (WDSF Shenzhen 2018 in China - Shenzen on Saturday, 01 December 2018).
Sidney Chong & Tania Long
Sidney Chong & Tania Long started dancing together in 2017 (August) as Amateur for England. Currently they are registered as a couple in England. They dance in Amateur Ballroom.
Their first competition was in England - Brentwood/London on 2018 (October). So far their best mark is getting into 5thplace in the SoT Open Am B'room Challenger (Stoke on Trent Open Dance Festival in England - Stoke-on-Trent on Sunday, 28 October 2018).
Zhang Chi & Yanna Zhang (Joanna)
Zhang Chi & Yanna Zhang started dancing together in 2011 (March) as Youth for China. Currently they are registered as a couple in China. They dance in Professional Ballroom.
Their first competition that is was in England - Frimley Green on 2011 (May). So far their best mark is getting into 2ndplace in the Professional Closed Asia Pacific Standard (Singapore Open Championships 2018 in Singapore - Singapore on Saturday, 20 October 2018).
Ting Zhuang (Nadia) & Yao Hou
Hou Yao & Zhuang Ting started dancing together in 2007 (June) as Youth for China. Currently they are registered as a couple in China. They dance in Professional Latin.
Their first competition was in China - Shenzen on 2007 (July). So far their best mark is getting into 1stplace in the WDSF PD Open Latin (DanceSport Cup 2019 in Spain - Benidorm on Friday, 11 January 2019).
Guo Ying & Xin Yuan Wan
Guo Ying & Xin Yuan Wan started dancing together in 2016 (March) as Professional. Currently they are registered as a couple in England.
So far their best mark is getting 2nd Place in the Asia Closed Professional WTVFQ Ballroom (Asia International Dance Championships 2017 in Hong Kong on Tuesday, 04 July 2017).
Ji Wang & Pan Jianhui
Ji Wang & Pan Jianhui started dancing together in 2010 (July) as Youth. Currently they are registered as a couple in China. They dance in Professional.
So far their best mark is 1st Place in the Asia Professional Latin (WDC Ningxia Dance Festival - Jinxiu Cup in China - Yin Chuan on Sunday, 24 July 2016).