Announcements

The Competitors Commission is going to award Scholarships prize money for the 12 highest placed Amateur Ballroom & Latin Couples from the Competitions which joined this initiative. Dancesportinfo.net agreed to help us and is going to use their ranking algorithm for the ranking of the couples. Currently these Competitions are a part of our Ranking Scholarships for 2019: Dance Lifestyle Cup – 8th -10th of March, Rome, Italy Polish Cup – 30th of March, Mierzyn/Szczecin, Poland Freedom to Dance – 11th – 12th of May, London, England Vilnius Dance Festival – 2nd of June, Vilnius, Lithuania Adriatic Pearl – 20th – 22nd of September, Dubrovnik, Croatia Dance Amore – 23rd – 25th of September, Rome, Italy North American Imperial Star Ball – 14th – 17th of November, Chicago, USA

25  March  2019 Statement of the Management Committee of the Competitors Commission: Settlement of members’ legal complaint against the World Dance Council’s Board of Directors for defamation The Management Committee of the Competitors Commission (the “MC”) is very pleased to announce that a number of its members have settled their long-standing legal dispute with the World Dance Council (“WDC”) in respect of allegations made against them by the Board of Directors of the World Dance Council (the “Board”) in an email sent to WDC Competitors on 10 February 2018 (the “Publication”).  The Publication was made by the Board following the World Dance Council’s purported dissolution of the Competitors Commission in January 2018. The MC considered a number of statements made in the Publication to be defamatory. As confirmed in a statement published on 18 July:  http://worldcompetitors.org/announcements/statement-of-the-management-committee-of-the-competitor-commission/ the MC has been engaged in a legal dispute with the Board in which it has been seeking to protect the independent status of the Competitors Commission in the face of its purported dissolution by the Board.  It has also been engaged in a defamation dispute with the Board in relation to the statements made in the Publication.  While the status of the Competitors …

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18 July 2018   Statement of the Management Committee of the Competitors’ Commission Dear Competitors,  On 5 February 2018, the Management Committee received a letter from lawyers instructed by the Board of Directors of the World Dance Council, alleging that the Board of Directors had dissolved the Competitors’ Commission and decided to create a new WDC Competitors’ Committee, to take on the functions of the Competitors’Commission. The Management Committee confirms that it is currently engaged in a legal dispute with the Board of Directors of the World Dance Council in which it is disputing the dissolution of the Competitors’ Commission and seeking to protect the independent status of the Competitors’Commission within the World Dance Council. The Competitors’ Commission is an organisation with a long history of acting as the independent “voice” of Competitors, to ensure that their concerns can be raised in an open forum, by those who are independent of the Board of Directors of the World Dance Council. The Management Committee very much hopes that an amicable resolution with the Board of Directors can be reached in due course. If you have any queries in relation to this matter, please do feel free to get in touch. Management …

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Competitors Commission invites you to their meeting – 29th of May – all Competitors can join and share their opinions or problems which we can discuss at the meeting. We hope to see you there ! Annual Meeting is going to be at 12:00 on Tuesday, 29th of May in Renaissance room, Wintergardens, Blackpool. Competitors who are planning to attend the AGM should inform the secretary of TCC Michael Burton by email burtonmichaelj@aol.com about their attendance no later than one week before the meeting to be able to vote. Competitors who don’t send their information will be allowed to the AGM as observers without voting right.

Shows of many world class dancers, durning blackpool dance festival, in beautiful ballroom – that’s SUPERSTARS in Cabaret 2018 24.05.2018 A fundraising event to aid the work of competitions commission and raise the founds to support Young Competitors. DATE: 24.05.2018 | Doors Open: 8:00pm |  Shows Start: 8:30 PLACE: Pavilion Theatre, Winter Gardens, Blackpool TICKETS: 20 Pounds Table Seat ALL TICKET ENQUIRIES TO: Michael Burton tel: +44 (0) 7760 376386 info@worldcompetitors.org

NEXT ANNUAL MEETING TUESDAY 30th May 2017 – 12 noon in the RENAISSANCE ROOM on Tuesday 30th May from 12 noon. All Competitors are welcome to come along & join the meeting to hear about the current issues that are being raised, along with any issues you yourselves may have as Competitors. It is a meeting which is very important and will benefit all Competitors. All members of the management Committee of The Competitors Commission look forward to seeing you there!

We The Competitors Commission would like to point out that as dancers we have to support the best musicians that provide us with the best dance music and therefore help us to enhance our performance. To have the great opportunity and the great pleasure to be able to dance to such wonderful music arrangements as the La Mariposa Tango composed by Ashley Frolick, the musical director of the Empress Orchestra, we must purchase original CD`s, to be able to have more of of the wonderful melodies available on further CD’s as the process of producing in studio-quality is very expensive in the making. Please keep in mind, that if we copy or share the dance music, we destroy ourselves a great opportunity to have more wonderful dance music like in the CD – “Always and Forever”! The Competitors Commission