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Two articles from the March edition of Dance Today, the UK's ballroom dancing magazine:
Dress for success By Sylvia Boerner for Dance Today
Have you ever asked yourself what creates the excitement of watching a dance couple perform? What is the difference between watching people dancing at a Tea Dance event or in a club? It must be the perfection that makes us tick, the enjoyment of seeing a couple in perfect harmony, perfectly executed movements and perfect looks. Every little detail from head to fingernail to toe plays its very distinctive part in creating that perfect image in our eyes. One of those details is the costume. Sylvia Boerner went to meet Zbyshek Lisak, Director and Helena Shmakova, the creative director of Danscouture, a company determined to make dancers look their best
Helena has been into designing and making clothes since her childhood. She, just like many other little girls, had always dreamed of dancing, the theatre, music and making clothes.
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From Russia with passion By Sylvia Boerner for Dance Today
January 23, 2003 was certainly a memorable day for Dmitri Timokhin and Anna Bezikova. It was their twelfth anniversary of dancing together as a couple, also their first ever competition as professionals and last and certainly not least they added another success to their list namely fourth place in the UK Open Championships in Bournemouth. Sylvia Boerner met them in Bournemouth the evening before the competition
“I always dreamt of being a figure skater” Anna says, who was born and grew up in Tjumen, a small city in Siberia, “but for some reason it didn’t happen. I started dancing, but, unlike most dancers in Russia, quite late, at the age of 11.”
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