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You may have noticed it…. I like music as well as dancing and I’ve found this youtube video by the rejected1. It’s his list of top 20 Cha Cha songs as of 2009 and has pretty good songs in it. I recognize a lot of these songs from videos of recent competitions. There are a few that I didn’t know the song titles, so I actually bought some of them.

He (or she?) and I seem to have a similar taste in cha cha songs. He has a rumba version of the video but I like his cha cha songs list better.

Hope you can find some song titles you were looking for.

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Slavik Kryklyvyy and Anna Melnikova are scheduled to do show dances at the Millenium Dancesport Championship in St. Petersburg, Florida in June. (June 22nd – 27th) Also in the lineup for the show dances are: Eugene Katsevman and Maria Manusova, Jose Decamps and Joanna Zacharewicz and Tomas Mielnick and JT Thomas. It’s quite exciting! I am seriously thinking of going there to compete. Even if I decide not to compete, I’ll probably go there to watch the shows.

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According to this post at Dance Forums, this year’s So You Think You Can Dance will start on May 27. They’ve already completed auditions in New York and Miami.

Here are the dates and locations for additional auditions.

Dallas, TX
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
6405 Boaz Lane
Dallas, Texas 75205

Nashville, TN
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Acuff Theatre
2804 Opryland Drive
Nashville, TN 37214

Chicago, IL
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Cadillac Palace Theatre
151 West Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60601

Los Angeles, CA
Friday, March 26, 2010
Orpheum Theatre
842 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90014

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The 2010 UK Open Championship Professional Latin was held in January 21st, so this is not really new but I want to put the results here anyway. Top 2 couples were as expected and a lot of people were speculating/wondering how Slavik Kryklyvy and Anna Melnikova would do. They got the fifth place followed by Andrej Skufca and Melinda Torokgyorgy, another new partnership. Another new partnership, Stefano Di Fillipo and Olga Urumova didn’t make it to the final. I read somewhere that they were going to represent Ukraine but it looks like they were dancing for Italy.

Final
1 Michal Malitowski & Joanna Leunis Poland
2 Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagorouitchenko USA
3 Franco Formica & Oxana Lebedew Germany
4 Sergey Sourkov & Agnieszka Melnicka Russia
5 Slavik Kryklyvyy & Anna Melnikova Russia
6 Andrej Skufca & Melinda Torokgyorgy Slovenia

Semi-final
Stefano Di Filippo & Olga Urumova Italy
Justinas Duknauskas & Ekaterina Lapaeva Lithuania
Markus Homm & Ksenia Kasper Germany
Joshua Keefe & Sara Magnanelli Italy
Matej Krajcer & Iwona Golczak Slovenia
Lu Ning & Jasmine Ding Fang Zhang China

Maurizo Vescovo & Andra Vaidilaite’s videos are out! They are looking good! The UK Championship is coming up and I’m sure they’ll be in it.

You can see the video here.

The audition schedule for So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) was announced a while back in mid December. They must have been very busy. So far, they’ve announced only 2 dates and I’ve been waiting for the announcement of the entire audition schedule. So, I decided to go ahead and write down those 2 dates here. If you go the Fox site, you can see the eligibility requirement, etc.

Here are the schedule for Miami and New York auditions.

MIAMI
MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2010
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132

NEW YORK
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2010
Manhattan Center
311 W. 34th Street
Between 8th & 9th Avenues
New York, New York 10001

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dancesport.ru posted results from the Russian Championship 2010, which was held in Ryazan, Russia. I had to rely on Google translate. Here’s the link to the translated article.

This is the first competition results I got hold of this year, and I feel excited. As you can see from the results, Alexsei Silde and Anna Firstova won, followed by Andrei Zaitsev and Anna Kuzminskaya.

Final

1. Alexei Silde – Anna Firstova, Moscow
2. Andrei Zaitsev – Anna Kuzminska, Vologda
3. Vladimir Karpov – Maria Tzaptashvili, Moscow
4. Andrey Gusev – Elizaveta Cherevichny, Moscow
5. Timur Imametdinov – Ekaterina?Nikolaeva, Moscow
6. Stanislav Nikolaev – Nelyubina Alexander, Perm
7. Yuri Simachevi – Anastasia?Klokotova, Moscow

Semifinal

8. Vitaly Panteleyev – Daria Glukhova, Moscow
9. Valentin Voronov – Alina Imrekova, Moscow
10. Dmitry Pugachev – Anastasia Selivanova, Moscow
11. Kovgan Roman – Sergeeva, Marina, Megion
12. Anton Aldan – Natalia Polukhina, Krasnodar
13. Anton Azanov – Ekaterina Isakovich, Moscow
14. Egor Schiry – Alice Sadovnikova, Volgograd
15. Mikahil Solovyev – Kristina Tsvetkova, Tver
16. Dmitry Cheshaev – Julia Samoilova, Ryazan