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unusual facts about ballroom dancing



Caren Marsh Doll

Once a month on the first Monday, Marsh volunteers as a dance therapy instructor at the Palm Springs Stroke Activity Center where the styles taught range from themes like ballroom dancing, country, Hawaiian, and belly dancing.

Chih Ree Sun

After retired from physics field, he became author of Chinese poetry whose love for ballroom dancing took him across Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Cruise ship dance host

They are almost exclusively gentlemen, typically between the ages of 40 and 70, who excel in social ballroom dancing.

Harry Croxton

One of his daughters, Clara, won the Staffordshire ballroom dancing championship in 1937 with her partner, Basset Riseley, whose father was Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent.

Liana Churilova

Originally from Perm, Russia she began ballroom dancing at the early age of 6 and then at 11 years moved to Saint-Petersburg, Russia.


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Jonathan Wilkins

He holds many titles in Professional Ballroom Dancing including being 10 times Professional Ballroom Champion, 1997 - 2007 ( in a partnership with Katusha Demidova which lasted eleven years, and brought considerable success).

Kevin Hagen

For a time he taught ballroom dancing, the specialty of his parents, for the Arthur Murray Company.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers) who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing.

Will Upson

The Will Upson Big Band provided music at the opening ceremony of the 1980 World Professional Ballroom Dancing Championships, held in the Perth Entertainment Centre.