Dancesport

The first unofficial world championship for Ballroom dance took place in 1909, was presented in 1932 by Olive Ripman at the Astoria Ballroom, London. The first Ballroom dancesport competition to be broadcast on TV was in Germany in 1960. ==Styles of Ballroom dancesport==

Dancesport competitions are held in the Ballroom discipline in four styles, two in International Style and two in American Style. These include the following categories: • International Standard • International Latin • American Smooth • American Rhythm These categories apply to both individual couples and formation dance. Some competitions under USA Dance and WDSF also offer solo events where individuals compete by themselves (i.e., without a partner) in either the leader or follower role and are judged on their form and execution of technique. These events were added to give more opportunities for dancers without partners to compete. == International governing organizations ==

World Dance Council The World Dance Council (WDC) is a registered limited company, and the legal successor to the International Council of Ballroom Dancing (ICBD), which was formed in 1950 in Edinburgh. The WDC operates through a general council and two committees: • The World Dance Sport Committee regulates professional dancesport at the international level. • The World Social Dance Committee "deals with all matters of the dance profession that relate to the activities of Dance Schools and Dance Teachers". It does not regulate social dance directly – that is the business of individual organisers, the dance teacher organisations, such as the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, and the chains of dance teaching schools in the United States. In 2007 the WDC Amateur League was created. This organisation runs a number of competitions and has its own world ranking system for amateur dancers. Each member country in the WDC has its own national organisation, such as the British Dance Council, which acts as a forum for the many interested parties in that country. The national bodies decide on their delegates to the WDC. World DanceSport Federation The World DanceSport Federation (WDSF), formerly the International DanceSport Federation (IDSF), is the international governing body of dancesport, as recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Founded in 1957 as the International Council of Amateur Dancers (ICAD), it took up the name International DanceSport Federation in 1990. In 2011 it changed its name to World DanceSport Federation to emphasise the organization's global character. In the past, the IDSF's focus was on administering amateur dancers and competitions. However, in 2010 the IDSF Professional Division was created (formerly known as the IPDSC), which extended this focus to professional dancesport. World Dance Organization The World Dance Organization (WDO) was founded with the name World Dance Organizers in 2019 with the first meeting being held on May 30, 2019, in Blackpool, England. The named was changed to the current World Dance Organization in December 2020. The controlling legal entity is the non-profit WDO Community Interest Company which was registered in England in September 2019. == Competitions ==

at competitions in Austria. There are a wide variety of dance competitions. They range from the well known Blackpool Dance Festival, an event open to all, to competitions conducted exclusively for university students, such as those hosted by the Inter Varsity Dance Association in the UK. Amateur competitions commonly include events that group dancers by age, experience, or both. For example, events might group young dancers by age, such as: juvenile (−1. In all three of the experiments, significant differences in the energy expenditure between the male and female athletes were noticed. Generally males had a higher energy expenditure than their female counterparts. This is evident due to the anthropometric differences between the two sexes and the oxygen transport capacity. and that competitive ballroom dancing requires a cardiovascular system that can work at a high energy level in order to match the given physiological strain. == Para dancesport ==

Previously known as Wheelchair dancesport until it was rebranded in 2016, Para dancesport consists of couples can competing in two kinds of events: combi (one standing partner and one wheelchair partner) or duo (both dancers are in wheelchairs). Disciplines contested in Para dance sport are: standard, Latin, singles and freestyle. Disciplines in couples events are combi standard, combi Latin, combi freestyle, duo standard, duo Latin and duo freestyle. The Freestyle and singles disciplines were introduced in 2014. Both were contested for the first time at a World Championship in 2015 in Rome, Italy. ==See also==