Some of the top dancers in the world are converging on New York City this week for the Manhattan Dance Championships and a chance to compete for $120,000 in prize money. While there is no shortage of star-studded performers this year's competition, all eyes will be focused on these three couples when they take the floor on Friday and Saturday.

Ina Jeliazkova and Troels Bager

Jeliazkova and Bager started their partnership in March 2006 and are registered together as a dance couple in the USA. They first won the Tropicana Cup in 2006 for the Amateur Rising Star Latin in Portland. Jeliazkova and Bager are coming off a career-best result in the Pro Latin Division after placing first at last week's Millennium DanceSport Championships in Orlando, FL.

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Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova

Both began ballroom at the tender age of 7 years old. Bizokas and Demidova registered as a couple in October 2007 and have been nearly unstoppable ever since. Just a month into their partnership, they claimed the Ohio Star Ball Championship and soon after placed second at United Kingdom Open Championships. Two years later, Bizokas and Demidova made an even bigger splash when they took first at the 2009 World Championships. The couple is the reigning international, UK, and British professional ballroom champions and currently holds the No. 1 position in the world and in the USA.

Nazar Norov and Irina Kudryashova

Both began their love affair with dance when they were 5 years old in Siberia, Russia. Norov and Kudryashova danced throughout their youth with different partners but joined together in 2006. After deciding to move to Florida in 2007, they turned professional and were ready to compete. Among their titles in the International Latin division, they have been named North American Rising Star champions, Grand National champions, and Ohio Star Ball Rising Star champions as well as U.S. National and Open to The World Rising Star winners. After switching in March 2013 to American Rhythm, they proved they belonged in the new division by winning every single Rising Star event they participated at, including the 2013 U.S. National Professional Rising Star Championship. They are currently the U.S. National Professional American and World American Rhythm Professional champions.

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