LatinBallroom.net

World Superstars Dance Festival 2009 DVD is already out at Dancevision. This year’s lineup is: Michael Malitowski & Joanne Leunis (Poland) Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagoruychenko (USA) Franco Formica & Oxana Lebedew (Germany) Sergey Surkov & Melia (Poland) Slavik Kryklyvyy & Anna Melnikova (Russia) Maxim Kozhevnikov & Beata (USA) We have Slavik Kryklyvvy & Anna [...]

The Kremlin Cup 2009 was held last week. Slavik Kryklyvyy and Anna Melnikova competed and got the third place. There was some discussion about their and other couples’ placement in this thread at Dance Forums. Slavik and Anna seem to be progressing well as partners. However, other couples, notably Sergey Sourkov and Melina, are improving [...]

Slavik Kryklyvyy and Anna Melnikova competed for the first time as a professional couple last night in Orland, Florida. The event was U.S.D.C. (United States Dance Championship). This partnership seems to be progressing well considering how long it took for Slavik and Hanna, Slavik’s former partner, to enter their first competition. As you know, Anna [...]

When I found “Slavik Kryklyvyy” on Facebook, I wanted to believe it was his real home page. Of course, it’s just a fan page. Too bad. These days you never know about the true identity of an online persona, even with Facebook where users are encouraged to use their true names to connect with their [...]

I am not on the internet to spread a rumor ….. but I’ve read on the internet that Anna Melnikova is Slavik‘s new partner more than a couple of times. Is it true? As you can see in this post, Slavik and Hanna Karttunen split earlier this year. Anna is (was?) dancing with Stefano de [...]

Yes, it looks like it’s real this time. Slavik and Hanna split. It was reported on a Russian web site about a week ago. I don’t know Russian, so I had to use an online translation site to understand the article. Basically, they decided to end the partnership and did not give out any reasons. [...]

The next event where we can see Ricardo/Yulia and Slavik/Hanna compete is the WDC World Pro Am Championships in Bahamas. The event will be held on February 7 -10. According to this post at Dancesportinfo.net, the pro competition will be in a “gladiator style” duel format. Hmmmm. That’s interesting. Photos by Peter Suba posted at [...]