On 20 September 2012, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu and WDSF President Carlos Freitag signed the letter of intent that formally awarded the WDSF World DanceSport Games to the Kaohsiung City Government. Today, five days short of the full year after the signing, Kaohsiung and WDSF officials met at the K-Arena to watch the final rehearsal for tomorrow's Opening Ceremony. There are only very few citiesis where something like this posssible!
More so than any other event on the competition calendar, the World DanceSport Games (WDSG) embody the essence of an all-encompassing DanceSport. Their inaugural edition unites the many different forms and styles of dance in a multi-disciplinary competitive event that brings out the common traits between them. The games foremost aim is to promote the particular values of dance as sport and to inspire the world to start moving to music too.
Heidi Goetz interviewes Rüdiger Knaack, GER, choreographer and coach of the TSC Braunschweig Formation, ahead of the WDSF World DanceSport Games 2013 Kaohsiung.
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Watch the dancers of TSC Braunschweig perform their choreography at the World DanceSport Championship Formation Standard in Ludwigsburg, GER, last year.
Watch Budai Attila - Barna Lilla, HUN, dance their routine in the first round of the 2013 World DanceSport Championship Showdance Standard on 7 September in Beijing, CHN.
