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Dance for Body, Mind and Soul

Biography

Nikolay Manolov and Pavlina Valcheva are one of Bulgaria’s most successful dance couples.  Some of their professional achievements are:

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  • Bulgarian Professional Latin Champions

  • World Professional Latin Championship quarter finalists

  • World Professional Latin American Showdance championship semi-finalists

  • European Professional Latin Championship semi-finalists

  • Bronze medalists 1st Nations Cup – Professional Team Match, Athens, Greece’2008

  • Choreographers, Concept Creatives of  Miss Lebanon 2022, 2024 and 2025

  • Choreographers of International award winning theatrical play "Cactus Flower"

  • The first ever Bulgarian dance  couple to take part in world-known dance sensation “Burn The Floor”, joining their cast for the world tour in  Australia and USA with their new show “Floor Play “ in 2006 and touring USA in 2009 with “Let’s Dance feat. Burn the Floor”

  •  Finalists in the Bulgarian edition of the most popular dance TV-show -  Dancing With The Stars

  • Champions of the first season Dancing With The Stars - Turkey , Yok Boyle Dans

  • Choreographers of season 3 and season 4 of Dancing With The Stars - Middle East , MTV Lebanon

  • Judges in the dance format “ Dance with me “ ,broadcasted by Bulgarian TV channel BTV  in “ Slavi’s Show “

  • 2007 and 2008 Sportsmen of the year Award owners

  • 2006, 2007 and 2010 BDSF Superstars Gala Awards owners

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Nikolay and Pavlina are World Dance Council and World Dance Organisation licensed adjudicators, approved for both Latin and Standard. They have been selected to be adjudicators at prestige-level championships and competitions.

  Travelling the world and having competed and performed in Europe, Australia, USA and Asia, Nikolay and Pavlina have the chance to learn  and work with some of the best teachers in the world: Jason Gilkison and Peta Roby, Bianka Schreiber -Orschitt, Allan Tornsberg, Prof. Dr. Ruud Vermeij, Barbara Ambroz, Michael Chapman, Peter Townsend, Darren Bennet, Maximiliaan Winkelhuis,  Julie Fryer.

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