2016 WDSF PD World Standard _ Promo
They are all here - for a change - and ready to do battle! All the top professional couples that have marked Standard dancing over the past two years, ever since the retirement of Mirko Gozzoli - Edita Daniute, LTU, following the 2014 PD World Championship in Nanjing, CHN, should be dancing in the 2016 edition of the WDSF PD World DanceSport Championship Standard in Aarhus, DEN. That is what everybody thought until the day of the championship.
The 2015 World Champions Benedetto Ferruggia - Claudia Koehler, GER, didn't show to go head-to-head with the 2016 European Champions Emanuel Valeri - Tania Kehlet, DEN. The couples had avoided each other in championships after the 2015 European in Copenhagen, DEN, but they both danced the 2016 PD Super GrandPrix in Stuttgart, GER. And what a closely fought battle that turned out to be! Ferruggia - Koehler won three dances, but Valeri - Kehlet got just as much applause from the expert public at the Beethoven Hall as did the Germans - plus they claimed the Tango and Quickstep very convincingly.
As in last year's PD World Standard in Leipzig, GER, the Judging System 2.1 will again be used to determine the winners. If we take the total score of Ferruggia - Koehler in 2015 as a reference - 194.4 points out of a possible 200 - we will see where the journey goes this time around.
The third couple that will also fight for the title are Donatas Vezelis - Lina Chatkeviciute, LTU, who had been runners-up in both the recent World and the European.
It is without precedent in the history of WDSF: the World Championship Standard for the professionals coincides in time and place with the normal World Championship Standard. Well, almost.
A 4-camera production in High Definition covering the decisive stages of the 2016 PD World Standard. With full graphics but without commentary. The programme is made up of four parts: the full-length semi-final, a Latin show by Peter and Kristina Stokkebroe, the full-length final and an in-depth interview with Emanuel Valeri and Tania Kehlet.
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