Dance sport at the Winter World Games
The Special Olympics World Winter Games 2025, the Winter Games for people with intellectual disabilities, will take place in Turin from 8 March. For the first time, a dance couple from Switzerland will be taking part: Victoria Kälin and Lukas Hämmerli. What awaits the two 23-year-olds in Piedmont when they compete with other couples in the "Palazzo delle Feste" in Bardonecchia on the
Billy Elliot musical seeks talented boys
The musical is looking for boys aged between 9 and 13 who enjoy dancing, acting and singing. Two taster days will take place on 26 February and 8 March in the MAAG Halle.
Latin Leo" becomes "Billy Elliot"
What an opportunity, what a challenge: Leo Lemmerich, a 13-year-old secondary school pupil and dancer from the Teen Dance Club in Frauenfeld, will soon be playing the lead role in the world-famous musical "Billy Elliot" - alternating with Moritz and Nevio, two teenagers of the same age. He has been looking forward to his first performance for weeks, which will take place on Saturday, 2 November in
TDC celebrates its 18th birthday
Congratulations! The Teen Dance Club Frauenfeld celebrated its 18th birthday in style with an "Open Air Dance Festival". The young team led by President Carmen Huber transformed the Murg Auen Park near the town centre into an open dance stage for a day. After the well-attended workshops, in which young and old mixed wildly
Swiss dance sport as NZZ cover story
Dance sport rarely receives media attention. Now the "NZZ am Sonntag Magazin", which has a readership of 343,000, has given us a lot of space for once; Swiss dance sport as the cover story, spread over eight pages with photos and texts. Author Margrit Sprecher, dubbed the grande dame of Swiss reportage journalism, has written this in-depth report.
Just Dance - IOC ventures into new formats
Breaking is still the first Olympic appearance of a dance sport - in Paris 2024 the best 16 breakers will step into the spotlight. The WDSF has long been in a state of joyful excitement. But already last week in Singapore, where the first Olympic E-Sport Series took place, dancing was caught by an Olympic touch. With
Free dance marketplace is launched
STSV Marketplace The STSV is creating a marketplace on its association website where sellers can network with potential buyers, dancers looking for partners with dancers or organisers of events and workshops with potential participants. To start with, we are working with the four categories "Dance Dresses", "Dance Partner", "Event" and "Workshop". The attached terms and conditions regulate the conditions. The advertisement must be thematically
Wibawa/Wibawa say goodbye
The siblings Pitt-Alexander and Tiara-Sophia Wibawa from TDC Frauenfeld announce their retirement from ballroom dancing. A good two weeks before the Swiss Latin Championships in Baden, this message from the defending champions comes as something of a surprise, but it is well-considered. "It was simply no longer possible to reconcile everything," is how they sum up their decision. "With a heavy heart we have to
"Belp Help" - the heart project of Vova&Yulia
The war in Ukraine - it also hits people in Switzerland deep in the heart. This is also the case for Vova Kasilov, Yulia Dreier's dance and life partner with a Ukrainian passport, who has lived in Belp near Bern for six years. Dance sport defines their lives. In 2017 and 2021, they were Swiss Standard Champions together. In the Zurich club DUZ belong
