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![]() Gender neutral Competitions
Monday, September 16, 2019
USA Dance plans to make a long overdue change in the coming months – all their sanctioned competitions will be gender-neutral. This means that regardless of a dancer’s gender, they are welcome to compete in the role that best suits them and all couples of any configuration will compete on the floor together. This change will establish USA Dance nationally and internationally as an organization that affords all dancers the equality, dignity, and respect that they deserve. In the summer of 2018, the DanceSport Council (DSC) first put out the word asking for volunteers who would work together to identify and address the necessary changes to make all USA Dance competitions open to what was then termed “same sex” couples. The newly formed committee consisted of amateur and professional dancers of all experience levels and various gender identities. One of their first actions was to adopt the term “gender neutral” over “same sex” in recognition of the fact that a competitive couple might consist of various gender configurations. That term has now been adopted industry-wide as other organizations have followed USA Dance in making similar changes. Read MoreLatest News Articles
![]() Chapter of the Year 2018
Saturday, April 6, 2019|Leland Whitney - Social Dance Vice PresidentThe Social Dance Council worked with the District Directors and Chapters to solicit submissions and determine the winners. Nine Chapter Nominations and ten Volunteer Nominations were submitted. We are pleased to recognize the following winners of these awards.
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![]() Volunteer of the Year
Saturday, April 6, 2019| Leland Whitney - Social Dance Vice PresidentThe Social Dance Council worked with the District Directors and Chapters to solicit submissions and determine the winners. Nine Chapter Nominations and ten Volunteer Nominations were submitted. We are pleased to recognize the following winners of these awards
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![]() Newsletters and News from the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF)
The World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) warmly welcomes today’s decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session to include Breaking on the sports programme of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
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![]() News from the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee
CHICAGO – The United States Olympic Committee has formally changed its name to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee – a change celebrating the athletes of Team USA and the Paralympic Movement in the United States. The USOPC board of directors unanimously approved the change in its quarterly meeting.
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![]() News from the International Olympic Committee
When he announced in Paris, on a winter's evening in 1892, the forthcoming re-establishment of the Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin was applauded, but nobody at the time imagined the scale of the project that reviving the ancient Olympic Games...
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9/16/2019Gender Neutral Announcement
6/6/2019Volunteer of the Year 2019
6/6/2019Chapter of the Year 2019
6/5/2019USA Dance Remembers Peter Pover
12/21/2019 » 12/22/2019
American DanceSport Festival - Sanctioned Event
1/18/2020 » 1/19/2020
Manhattan Amateur Classic 2020 - NQE
1/31/2020 » 2/2/2020
Southeastern DanceSport Championship - NQE
2/1/2020
WDSF World Smooth Championships
Photography on Home Page
Hero 1 - Mike & Rose-Ann Lynch - Nationals 2018 Photography by Lisa Dubinsky
Hero 2 - USA Dance Los Angeles Chapter Dance - Photography by Jerry Hernandez
Hero 3 - Nationals 2016 - Photography by Carson Zullinger
Hero 4 - Team USA - WDSF World Sr. IV Standard, Nagano, Japan Courtesy of Winston Chow
Carousel 1 - Adult Latin Nationals 2018 - Photography by Lisa Dubinksy
Carousel 2 - Nationals 2018 - Photography by Lisa Dubinsky
Carousel 3 - NCDC 2018 - Photography by Lisa Dubinsky
Carousel 4 - CFC 2018 - Photography by Calvin Long
Carousel 5 - Minnesota Chapter Flash Mob - Photography by David Chin