It has been a rather tumultuous year in Latin and the five GrandSlam Series competitions taking place at somewhat regular intervals reflected that perfectly. When the series went underway with the first leg in Helsinki, FIN, everybody was eager to see three "new" couples that had formed after two high-profile partnerships were dissolved following the 2014 World Latin. Even the sceptics seemed to like what they saw: winning Helsinki with his new partner Vera Bondareva, Nino Langella seemed all set to continue where he had left off five months earlier. It came all the more as a surprise when the two dancers did'n make it to Wuhan, CHN, and when Nino announced that he would move on to new horizons prior to Hong Kong. But by then, three couples had started to position themselves as the heirs apparent to his dominance. Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus, MDA, had two back-to-back victories in Asia, but Armen Tsaturyan and Svetlana Gudyno came back fighting and took the next two legs: Stuttgart, GER, and Moscow, RUS. Nino's former partner Khrystyna Moshenska and Marius-Andrei Balan were runners-up twice but failed to make it to Moscow - something that keeps them out of the season-ending GrandSlam Final in China. As the 12 top-ranked couples compete one more time in this Shanghai Showdown the stakes are higher than ever for two of them: so far, Gabriele and Anna won two legs plus the World Championship in Vienna, AUT, Armen and Svetlana won the other two plus the European in Aarhus, DEN. With these records for 2015, the GrandSlam Final becomes the tiebreaker of sorts. A 6-camera production in High Definition covering the decisive stages of the GrandSlam Latin Final. With full graphics but without commentary. The programme is made up of four parts: the full-length semi-final, interviews with the finalists, the full-length final and interviews with the medallists. Approximately 90-minutes running time.
Produced by the WDSF Communications team in collaboration with the host broadcaster and the Chinese DanceSport Federation.
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