Dancesport - Introduction
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DanceSport an Olympic Sport
Not many people know that the DanceSport is a sport that's official recognised by the International Olympic Committee IOC!
On the 8th of September, 1997, The International Olympic Committee announced that it had recognised the International Dance Sport Federation (IDSF) as a recognized federation and full member of the IOC.
Full membership in the IOC, means, a final acceptance of DanceSport as a sport. This acceptance as a recognised sport does not mean that DanceSport competitors can already compete in the next Olympic Games. The aim of the IDSF is to make DanceSport part of the 2008 Olympic Games, but there is still a long way to go.
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More about Olympics, read our special Olympics page
More about DanceSport read our DanceSport Press-kit
The Train to Olympia is no Expresstrain!
About the IDSF
The International DanceSport Federation (IDSF) is the worldwide federation of National DanceSport Associations and is the only body responsible in relation to the Amateur DanceSport. It represents several million registrated DanceSport athletes and organises competitions around the globe
Rudolf Baumann
President IDSF
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IDSF today has 74 national member Federations on five continents, with the World Rock'n Roll Confederation WRRC, as afiliate Member.
IDSF is a Member of the following International Sports Federations:
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- GAISF - General Association of International Sports Federation
- IWGA - International World Games Association
- ARISF - Association of the IOC Recognised Sports Federations
- Recognition of the IOC - International Olympic Committee
Who is IMG and TWI
IMG:
IMG was founded in 1960 and is the only global company of its kind in the world, bringing sport and business together in rewarding new relationships.
The company was responsible for the commercial development of - among other sports - golf, tennis and ice skating and owns, manages or represents almost 1000 events on the global sports and cultural calendar. IMG has more than 2000 employees in 78 offices in 32 countries.
Head of the International Managing Group IMG, the Mark McCormack Group of Companies is the American Mark McCormack of Cleveland/Ohio.
TWI:
TWI is IMG´s television subsidiary and is acknowledged as the largest independent producer of sports and lifestyle programming. Annually more than 1 200 hours of original programmes are produced and distributed in more than 130 countries.
The flagship programme is the weekly magazine Trans World Sport, shown around the world and by several airlines in-flight, which this month celebrates its tenth anniversary. The weekly soccer magazine programme "Football mundial" is also distributed globally.
TWI also provides television coverage of cricket from the West Indies and the Indian sub-continent; more than thirty European Golf Tour events each year; snooker tournaments from around the world and several tennis tournaments.
TWI is headed by IMG Group Vice-President Eric Drossart
DanceSport Disciplines
More about DanceSport read our DanceSport Press-kit
Competitive ballroom dancing, as distinct from the leisure
activity, has recently been renamed throughout the world as "dancesport"
"The sport of competition dancing".
Competitions are divided into amateur and professional
categories. Amateur dancers are divided up as Juvenile (under 13 years),
Junior (13 and under 16), Adult (16 year and over) and Senior (over 35).
Eligibility is determined generally by the age of the older partner, and
it is not uncommon to have further special age divisions such as under
11, for the tiny tots, and youth categories of 16 to 19 years.
DanceSport Championships are held in four different disciplines:
Ten Dance
Ten Dance section: covering all the above dances in one competition.
Formation
Formation section: teams of eight couples dancing Standard or Latin dances and judged on their use of technique, patterns, smooth transitions, floor coverage and musical interpretation. More information about formation dancing can be found on the Moving Action, Waalwijk The Netherlands formation team Internet site.
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World Championships
The IDSF organises yearly World and European Championships in which each IDSF member country is allowed send their local Champion and runners up couple. During the competition the couples are judged on their technique, musical interpretation, dynamics, floor craft, body lines and sportive, art including show performance. A championship final consists out of 6 couples dancing each dance for a time of approx. 2 minutes. The judges rank each couple form place 1 to 6 by a closed or open judging system, the overall winner is defined according the scating system
The IDSF organises also around the globe IDSF World Ranking competitions in which the couples can collect points for their position into this IDSF World Ranking List. An other famous competition is The Open British at Blackpool, on this open competition all World leading couples compete in several competitions sceduled over a whole week.
Dancesport on the Internet
The number of information centres on the Internet about DanceSport is growing daily!
Interresting pages on this site are:
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