“Runner-Up” bachelorette Melissa Rycroft shows that she is as graceful dancing as she is handling what must have been a most difficult rejection on ABC’s “The Bachelor” by dancing a lovely waltz on the debut episode of season eight of

Toronto Dance instructor Valentin Mirosh trained Oakville teenager Joana Cardoso at Viva Dance for the MTV reality series “Made”, a show about making dreams come true. In just four weeks Joana Cardoso was “Made” into a ballroom dancer. During past

The most prestigious ballroom dance competition in the world, the Blackpool Dance Festival began in 1920 in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England. In 2008 there were 68 countries represented and a total number of 1,863

Every summer in the last week of May, all manner of ballroom dancers flock to the seaside town of Blackpool, England, to partake in the world’s most prestigious dancesport competition.  The eight-day Blackpool Dance Festival is the world’s first and

Dancesport instructors Andrei and Natale Paramonov, Amateur Latin champions Kamil Studenny and Katya Trubina, and Junior 10-dance champions Winson Tam and Anna Kus, all from Toronto, participated in the recently televised American’s Ballroom Challenge 2007. Andrei and Natale placed an astounding third place out of hundreds of couples in both the

A new film portraying the life of Pierre Dulane, a true-to-life dance teacher who takes a class of young Hip Hop dancers in New York and transforms them through ballroom dancing, is currently filming in Toronto. Anna Dorosh from Viva Dance is

  Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School to be released in theatres soon! Right now the film is releasing in about 54 cities with more to come! You and your friends will love the movie- an inspiring tale, with

TLC gives viewers an inside look into ballroom dancing  and the sweat, rigor and personal determination necessary for success in BALLROOM BOOTCAMP, premiering Friday, October 7, 2005 at 10 PM (ET/PT). In this series, filmed at Danceland Studio in Hollywood, California,