Boston Club Düsseldorf

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Surname Boston Club eV Düsseldorf
sport Dance sport
Founded 1912
Place of foundation Dusseldorf
Association headquarters Vennhauser Allee 135
40627 Düsseldorf
Members around 550
Chairman Rüdiger Konopatzki
Homepage www.boston-club.de

The Boston-Club eV Düsseldorf is a dance sport club in Düsseldorf .

The association has u. a. about offers in individual dancing , formation dancing , jazz and modern dance , hip-hop , popular sports and children's dance.

history

The club was founded in 1912 from a dance group that has met regularly at the Breidenbacher Hof since 1902 . The name of the club goes back to the Boston , a forerunner of the slow waltz .

After the Second World War , the club's dance business was resumed on October 1, 1948.

Standard formation

Boston Club Düsseldorf at the German Formation Championship 2016

The standard formation of the association was founded in 2002. In the seasons 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 the team competed in a formation community with TSG Hagen in the 2nd Bundesliga. After relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga, the formation community broke up. The team from the Boston Club Düsseldorf competed in the Regionalliga West Standard next season. For the 2009/2010 season, the team moved up to the 2nd Bundesliga Standard as the third-placed team in the promotion tournament, after the TC Rot-Weiss Casino Mainz withdrew its B-Team from the 2nd Bundesliga, but rose again at the end of the season Regional league. Until the 2014/2015 season, the team danced in the Regionalliga West Standard - from 2011/2012 to 2013/2014 with the musical theme "Pirates of the Carribaen", 2014/2015 with the musical theme "Whitney" - and then got into the 2. Bundesliga on. In the 2015/2016 season, the formation again danced a choreography on the musical theme of "Whitney".

After TCH Oldenburg withdrew its A-team from the 1st Bundesliga Standard in July 2016, the formation of the Boston-Club Düsseldorf moved up to the 1st Bundesliga as the third-placed team last season. At the end of the season, the formation was relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Standard. The musical theme in the 2016/2017 season was "Whitney". In the following season, the team achieved direct promotion back to the 1st Bundesliga with the new musical theme "Beauty & The Beast", but was relegated again to the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the 2018/2019 season.

The trainers of the standard formation are Uwe and Melanie Schieren.

Latin formation

Formation community TSZ Aachen / Boston Club Düsseldorf at the German Formation Championship 2016

Latin formations existed in the club from 2004 to 2006, when an A-team competed in league competitions in the Oberliga West Latin. In the 2004/2005 season there was also a B-team in the regional league West Latin.

For the 2016/2017 season, the club and TSZ Aachen formed a formation community that competed in the 1st Latin Bundesliga. The musical theme was "The Great Gatsby". The formation community relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga after the season, but managed again in the following season with the musical theme "The Great Gatsby", the direct promotion to the 1st Bundesliga.

Chaos formation

In addition to the formations that take part in league tournaments, there is also a popular sports formation in the club, which with its choreographies presents a parody of formation dancing. Both standard and Latin music are used in the choreographies.

The Chaos formation is coached by Igor Pokasanew and Steggi Venjacob.

Web links

Commons : Boston-Club Düsseldorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Clubs by size , German Dance Sport Association (PDF, 104 kB; as of 2017). Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  2. ^ A b Tanzsport: The Boston Club - lovable family , Westdeutsche Zeitung , February 25, 2015. Accessed July 27, 2016.
  3. Ulrike Sander-Reis: Boston Club moves up , Deutscher Tanzsportverband eV , September 16, 2009. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  4. Roland vom Heu: Changes in the national leagues Standard - TCH Oldenburg releases starting place in the 1st division , Deutscher Tanzsportverband eV, July 20, 2016. Accessed July 27, 2016.
  5. ^ Chaos formation , Boston Club Düsseldorf. Retrieved July 27, 2016.