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Sofia Open Dance Festival 2017

For 3rd year in a row the capital was hosting the biggest event of the year in Bulgaria's dance calendar - Sofia Open Dance Festival .

The festival was organised by BPDA and with the exclusive support of Mars Amor and Victoria Group it turned into a world class event !

Held in the beautiful E.F.E. Ballroom of Hotel Marinella -Sofia , the WDC Amateur league event featured competitions for all age categories and groups with top couples from 14 countries : England , Germany , France , Denmark , Russia , Italy , Switzerland , Ukraine , Belarus , Romania , Moldova , Turkey , Greece and Bulgaria .

The judging panel consisted of some of the WDC top professionals , including world champions !

And as if this wasn't enough the event featured a very special 5 dance performance by the top of the top - our very special guests , the 7 times reigning and undefeated World Professional Latin-american Champions Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagoryuchenko from USA !

Both of us were happy to be part of this celebration called " Art of dance " not only as part of the judging panel of the event but also for bringing our students to participate and experience the magic and the unique atmosphere of this event .

Two couples from our GRAND TEAM took part in competition - both youth couples . The two of them participated in both Under 21 and Amateur categories . Happy to say that one of them - Ljuboslav Stoev & Miroslava Doicheva , became the best placed Bulgarian couple in the whole event . Ljuboslav & Miroslava finished 2nd in the Under 21 category ,with some of the judges marking them 1st all the way through .In the WDC Amateur Latin they missed the final by only two " x " and finished 8th . Great result considering this was their first international competition after one year break they had to take due to knee surgery . Well done !

And if this was a comeback ,the other couple were absolute debutants . Bratan Bratanov & Yoanna Shishkova are a brand new partnership , have been dancing together less than a month but their desire to participate in that event was unstoppable . They actually did very well making the semifinal in the Under 21 Latin , finishing 10th and the top 24 in the Amateur Latin ,where they finished 16th . Looks like this is promising to be a great partnership !

It was a nice surprise to meet some old friends - like pop star Kristina Dimitrova who Nikolay was dancing with in the second season of Dancing With The Stars -Bulgaria and our dear friend Boyko who is so busy travelling the world as the master behind the look of all top couples that to see him back in his native Bulgaria is a wonderful surprise !

Straight after the competition there was a training camp with some of our international ballroom and latin experts . Hannes Emrich , Oxana Lebedew , John Wood and Riccardo & Yulia gave amazing and inspiring lectures .

Would like to express our gratitude and congratulate the main organisers of Sofia Open Dance Festival - Zlatin Kostov and Viktoria Kostova ! Thank you Viki & Zlatin -it was fantastic ! Really enjoyed our time at the festival and already looking forward to next year's edition .

Best ,

Nikolay & Pavlina

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