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Including…
1 Intro 2 Results from around the Country and around the World 2. Accredited Amateurs Registrations 3. Codes of Conduct 4. DanceExplo 2008 5. Coaching Principles Course 6. Programme – Australian Open Dancesport Championships
Intro
We have decided to test a new format for our DSWA News and publish online making it more accessible and easily referenced than our existing newsletter. It will also enable us to make updates when necessary without having to wait for enough content to produce a full newsletter. Progress is what it’s all about!!
Results from around the Country and around the World
This year was quite a successful year for the Australians in International competition and WA dancers (or WA ex-pats!) were no exception! The following couples competed at the event and many improved on their previous year placings:
2008 Crystal Palace Cup – England
Amateur Standard: 13th Richard Tonizzo & Claire Hansen 26th Antonio Micheli & Bianca Tonizzo 48th Steven Grinbergs & Rachelle Plaass
IDSF Open Latin: 10th Arkady Bakenov & Rosa Filippello (NZ) 29th Arsen Kishishian & Yuliya Nikitenko 49th Jeremy Basile & Megan Wragg
BATD English Championships Amateur Latin 12th Arkady Bakenov & Rosa Filippello (NZ)
Singapore Millennium
Amateur Closed Pacific Standard 3rd Antonio Micheli & Bianca Tonizzo 7th Brett Reilly & Bie Lan Oey (Sing)
Amateur Open Standard 12th Antonio Micheli & Bianca Tonizzo
Amateur Closed AsianPacific Latin 1st Arkady Bakenov & Rosa Filippello (NZ) 10th Gerry Maio & Nicole Prosser
Amateur Open Latin 9th Arkady Bakenov & Rosa Filippello (NZ)
Youth Open Latin 4th Gerry Maio & Nicole Prosser
2008 British Open Championships – Blackpool, England
Under 21 Latin: 132nd Steven Grinbergs & Rachelle Plaass
Under 21 Standard: 70th Steven Grinbergs & Rachelle Plaass
Amateur Rising Star Latin: 5th Joshua Keefe & Sara Magnanelli 8th Arsen Kishishian & Yuliya Nikitenko 11th Arkady Bakenov & Rosa Filippello (NZ) 317h Jeremy Basile & Megan Wragg 186th Antonio Micheli & Bianca Tonizzo 327th Steven Grinbergs & Rachelle Plaass
Amateur Latin: 43rd Arkady Bakenov & Rosa Filippello (NZ) 30th Joshua Keefe & Sara Magnanelli 196th Jeremy Basile & Megan Wragg
Amateur Rising Star Standard: 146th Steven Grinbergs & Rachelle Plaass
Amateur Standard: 32nd Richard Tonizzo & Claire Hansen (Canada)
Professional Rising Star Standard: 92nd Darryl Davenport & Natalie Smith (NZ)
Professional Standard: 143rd Darryl Davenport & Natalie Smith (NZ)
Professional Rising Star Latin: 54th Adam Blakey & Zoe Unkovich
Professional Latin: 65th Adam Blakey & Zoe Unkovich
2008NCDC – Canberra
WA Once again showed their strength in Canberra at the
National Capital DanceSport Championships held on 28th/29th
June 2008 in Canberra.
Juvenile Open Latin: 2nd David Santalucia & Brieanna Pincer 3rd Ben Graham & Kylie Graham 5th Oliver Vernall & Kelly Staebler
Juvenile Open Standard: 2nd Ben Graham & Kylie Graham 3rd David Santalucia & Brieanna Pincer 4th Mark Davies & Rhiannon Cooney
Juvenile Open New Vogue: 1st Ben Graham & Kylie Graham 2nd David Santalucia & Brieanna Pincer 3rd Mark Davies & Rhiannon Cooney 5th Oliver Vernall & Kelly Staebler
Juvenile Open 6 Dance: 2nd Ben Graham & Kylie Graham 3rd David Santalucia & Brieanna Pincer 5th Oliver Vernall & Kelly Staebler
Sub-Juvenile Open Latin: 3rd Bryn McKay & Hayley Davies
Sub-Juvenile Open Standard: 1st Bryn McKay & Hayley Davies
Sub-Juvenile Open New Vogue: 1st Bryn McKay & Hayley Davies
Junior Open Latin: 2nd Darren Morrissey & Christina Morrissey 3rd James Potter-Brown & Joanne de Jager
Junior Open Standard: 1st Darren Morrissey & Christina Morrissey 3rd James Potter-Brown & Joanne de Jager 5th Jack Johnson & Kelsey Pincer
Junior Open New Vogue: 1st Darren Morrissey & Christina Morrissey 3rd James Potter-Brown & Joanne de Jager 5th Jack Johnson & Kelsey Pincer
Junior Open 8 Dance: 1st Darren Morrissey & Christina Morrissey 4th James Potter-Brown & Joanne de Jager 5th Jack Johnson & Kelsey Pincer
Youth Open Latin: 3rd Gerry Maio & Nicole Prosser 4th Brodie Barden & Courtney Branch
Youth Open Standard: 1st Brodie Barden & Courtney Branch
Adult Open Latin: 3rd Arsen Kishishian & Yuliya Nikitenko
Adult Open Standard: 3rd Antonio Micheli & Bianca Tonizzo 4th Craig Denham & Tegan Short
Adult Open New Vogue 6th Sean Van der Poel & Lauren de Rozario
Adult Open 10 Dance: 2nd Steven Grinbergs & Rachelle Plaas (NSW) 6th Andrew Buswell & Dianne Buswell
Masters 1 Open Latin: 1st Vincent Ioppolo & Kaylene Rimmer
Professional Standard: 3rd Darryl Davenport & Natalie Smith (NZ)
Professional New Vogue: 2nd Darryl Davenport & Natalie Smith (NZ)
The 5th China Shanghai International Dancesport Championships
IDSF Latin World Cup
13th Arkady Bakenov
& Rosa Filippello (NZ)
7th Arkady Bakenov & Rosa Filippello (NZ)
Accredited Amateurs Registrations Just a reminder to Accredited Amateurs that you are still required to become a member of DSA in order for your DanceSport Australia Accreditation to be current. To check if you are currently an Accredited Member, see our website www.dancesport.org.au under “Accreditation”.
Codes of Conduct In the last newsletter we published the Competitors Code of Conduct from the DSA Member and Technical Handbook. The next in this series is:
31. PARENTS AND SPECTATORS CODE OF CONDUCT**
31.1 It is a condition of entry as a spectator to all DSA registered events that spectators must:
a) At all times, act in a sportsmanlike manner and while in public must not act in a way that brings DanceSport or DSA into disrepute.
b) Not connive in a breach of these rules by making false statements, by withholding a competitor’s registration card so that elevation marks are not recorded on the card, or by withholding information about a competitor’s age, Level, qualifications or other matters that would result in their being ineligible to enter an event.
c) Not use physical violence, or act in a way that uses the threat of physical violence as intimidation.
31.2 Parents are urged to abide by the following code of behaviour:
a) Do not force an unwilling child to participate in DanceSport.
b) Remember, your children are involved in DanceSport for THEIR enjoyments and fulfilment, not yours.
c) Encourage your child always to abide by the rules.
d) Teach your child that honest effort is as important as winning so that the result of each competition is accepted without undue disappointment.
e) Encourage your child to work towards skill improvement and good sportsmanship. Provide unconditional support and never ridicule your child for making a mistake or losing a competition.
f) Have realistic expectations for your child and his/her partner – do not expect more than they can give. Be honest, but generous with your praise when it is deserved.
g) Remember that children learn best by example. Applaud good performances by your child’s opponents.
h) Do not publicly question the adjudicators’ judgement and never their honesty.
i) Appreciate the contribution and commitment of coaches.
31.3 Spectators are urged to abide by the following code of conduct:
a) Never ridicule a couple for making a mistake or losing a competition.
b) Respect the organiser’s rules and the adjudicator’s decisions.
c) Do not indulge in physical or verbal abuse of competitors, adjudicators, coaches, officials or other spectators
d) Do not encourage or condone the use of violence in any form.
e) Encourage competitors always to abide by the rules.
f) A parent or spectator who is not a member of DSA may be banned for a period of time or permanently, from attending DSA registered events, by a decision of the Branch Ethics and Conduct Committee. The procedure for complaints against parents or spectators who are not members of DSA and any disciplinary action and appeal arising there from, shall be the same as for competitors (including the quantum of the appeal fee).
** DanceSport Australia Member and Technical Handbook
DanceExplo 2008
We have been requested to include in this newsletter a copy of an article written by Peter Smith, Executive Officer of DSWA, and published by the Dance Review.
Sunday 17th February saw a packed Ballroom at the South Perth Yacht Club, for the DanceSport Western Australia “Dance Explo 2008!!!”
There were some very satisfied members of the Board of DanceSport WA, there very early in the morning assisting with the set-up of the ballroom, as the house full signs had been posted for this event for almost a fortnight.
This function was in fact a real first for the Board of DSWA and its especially convened sub-committee of Derek Gatley, Helen Bosworth and Sheree Holly. The board had talked for quite a long time about running such a promotion for the benefit of our members, but had never really had the tenacity to take the plunge. In 2008, with the formation of the very enthusiastic sub-committee and some financial support from the West Australian Department of Sport & Recreation, it was decided to take the plunge and give it our best shot.
On paper this exercise seems quite easy, simply find a venue, and get some good lecturers and the crowd will flock to such an event. Not quite as easy as that I am afraid, we needed a venue preferably not associated with DanceSport to give this event a unique feel to it and then to find five or six lecturers who were all available on the same Sunday is not at all an easy task. The sub-committee worked diligently to get all the ingredients together and the attendance of over two hundred people was tantamount to their hard work.
The morning started on time at 10 a.m. with former Olympic Gymnast Alana Slater giving us her insight into her approach to “Dedication to your Sport” At 10.45 it was time for one of our very special Guest Lecturers Helen Richey making the journey from Melbourne especially to be with us. Helen is well known these days for her adjudicating on the very popular television show “Dancing with the Stars” and as such was a personality many attendees wanted to meet. However those of us with slightly longer memories and knowledge of the history of DanceSport in Australia and around the World, know Helen as a former competitor of the highest calibre and in more recent times as a very successful Coach of Latin couples, both here and overseas. It was these talents that Helen drew on to present a Latin Lecture that had the audience spellbound. On several occasions it was difficult to find the diminutive Helen in the middle of the dance floor as attendees jumped at the chance to try Helen’s approach to the Latin dances first hand. Her lecture came to an end all too soon, but all in attendance showed their appreciation to her with thunderous acclamation.
Next in this impressive line-up of lecturers was Glenn Ruscoe; Glenn is a local West Australian and he is by profession a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. Today was his first contact with the DanceSport fraternity at large and his lecture “It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer” was quite frankly sensational. He had obviously researched our sport to great depths and gave many a dance pundit both young and old a lot to think about in the way they create the right posture, ease of movement and much more, all without doing any harm to the body of course.
At the completion of Glenn’s lecture and a rather interesting question session it was time to break for lunch. Straight after lunch it was back into the lectures.
Starting the afternoon session it was the turn of a former very successful competitor in the shape of Kirsten Ball, who these days is a Pilates/ Fitness Instructor. Her lecture “Fuelling the Dancer’s Body” also had the ability to capture the audience. She had several participants working out on the floor on Pilates mats, the result being that some of them realized just how fit they were not. (Did I volunteer, no I did not!!!)
By now it was 2.30 p.m. and the turn of another interstate visitor to present his lecture. It was indeed the World renowned Anthony Hurley, who had travelled from his home on the Queensland/NSW border to spread his words of wisdom. Anthony is recognized as being amongst the world’s best lecturers in the Standard style and on this occasion he did not let us or himself down. He did however before commencing dedicate his lecture to the memory of the late Bill Irvine M.B.E. who had passed away in a London hospital just a few days earlier. Anthony’s message in his lecture was to emphasize the importance of adhering to the basic principles that have stood the test of time. Whilst there may be many things that have evolved over the years, the use of the standing leg, good basic poise, and the “keep it simple” theory amongst others are still the basis to build your dancing on. Anthony is in big demand as both a Coach and lecturer all over the World these days and for him to find the time to visit us, give up an entire weekend and more, plus give us such a great insight into his success was indeed a privilege for all of us in attendance. Once again all dance devotees showed their appreciation in the usual manner.
Anthony then joined his fellow lecturers and joined an “Ask the Experts Forum” A question and answer session that was indeed most interesting.
By now evening was fast approaching and it was BBQ time. The courtyard outside the ballroom at the South Perth Yacht Club has a number of gas fired BBQ’s and these were fired up and ready to cook steaks and sausages for all in attendance, with an abundance of salads to augment the meat.
Once the meal was over it was time to return to the ballroom for a very relaxed dance party. Music and the sound system courtesy of Humphreys Dance Studio and Adam Penn, with Mitchell Ball filling the D.J’s spot. This was a most popular way to end the day, just showing that you cannot have too much of a good thing, when presented properly.
For the record, the entry fee for all of this was a massive $35.00 per person. This of course included all the lectures, lunch, dinner and the dance. If you can find better value anywhere then please let me know!!!!
Peter has really said if all in his article but let me just add – next year get in for your tickets early!!! We have started organising next year and it is looking to be bigger and better again.
Coaching Principles CourseEvery coaching course has an element of general principles included in the accreditation. General principles refers to skills that are common to the instruction of all sports (e.g. Athlete Management, Communication, Sport Safety etc). Some sports include this in their course while others encourage it to be completed externally before attending the sport specific course. To assist coaches, the Beginning and Intermediate General Principles Courses are held regularly throughout the year. DSA require that the beginners course be completed as part of their Level O Coaching Accreditation. The Department of Sport and Recreation has established a relationship with Central TAFE who will deliver these courses. Please see registration forms for times and venues. Beginning Coaching Principles courseNext Course Date: Sunday 28th September, 2008 This course aims to develop practical coaching knowledge and skills for the beginning coach or offer a refresher for those that have coached before. Topics Include: · Role of the Coach · Planning and Reviewing · Risk Management
Cost $55 (incl. GST) - Course fee includes Beginning Coaching manual and worksheets. The Registration form or information on further courses can be downloaded by following this link: Click on Services (on left of page) Click on Coaching Click on Coaching Programs Click on Coaching Principles
Age Group Events Age Group Events DSA National Council has recognised that a circumstance may arise in which a competitor, who would otherwise be age eligible, would be debarred from competing in a World Championship selection event by virtue of our current rules. To remedy this situation, which is particularly relevant to Junior and Youth selection events, the following has been added as Rule 11.12:- Notwithstanding any other age related restrictions on entry to DSA registered events, age related eligibility to participate in an event to select an Australian representative at an IDSF titled event (typically an IDSF World or Continental championship) or an Olympic family event, shall be determined strictly in accordance with IDSF age eligibility rules. This rule shall not prevent DSA from prohibiting a competitor or a couple from simultaneously competing for selection to represent at an IDSF World or Continental championship in more than one age group. This rule shall not prevent a promoter from requiring couples to dance in only one age group per style.
Programme Australian Open Dancesport Championships Tuesday, 9 December Dance Easy Schools’ programme Wednesday, 10 December 0930 hours, IDSF Adjudicators’ Course 1500 hours, Australian Championship, (Day 1) Thursday, 11 December 0930 hours, Australian Championship, (Day 2) Includes the IDSF Australian and International Open Latin Friday, 12 December 1000 hours, Asia Pacific Symposium - some of the world’s masters of dance give lectures 1930 hours, Gala Dinner, Grand Ballroom – Hotel So?tel Saturday, 13 December 0930 hours, Australian Championship, (Day 3) Includes the IDSF Australian and International Open Standard
Tattersall’s IDSF World Latin Championship Sunday, 14th December 0930 hours day session 1900 hours evening session - Includes support events and a spectacular opening, choreographed by the producers of the international dance hit ‘Burn the Floor’, Jason Gilkison & Peta Roby.
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