World Dance Council
The World Dance Council (WDC, German: " World Dance Council ") is a British stock corporation (Ltd.) and one of the two global authorities for dance and dance sport . The president is Donnie Burns .
history
The WDC was founded on September 22nd, 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland by 22 professional dancers from 12 countries as the International Council of Ballroom Dancing (ICBD). In 1992 the company was renamed World Dance & Dance Sport Council (WD & DSC), on June 1, 2006 it was given its current name.
Structure and tasks
The WDC has two sections: The World Dance Sport Committee (English "world Tanzsport-. Committee ") and the World Social Dance Committee (English as "world. Ballroom dancing committee '').
The committee is chaired by Fred Bijster from the Netherlands and promotes professional dance. It administers the registers of international member associations, judges and professional dance athletes, specifies competition rules, titles and trainer training requirements, and awards the standard and Latin dance world championships to national associations. The German-speaking members of this section are the German Professional Dance Sport Association , the Professional Dance Sport Association Austria and the Swiss Dance Sport Association .
The society, chaired by the judge and president of the Dutch professional dance sports association Marcel de Rijk, promotes amateur dance and dancing as a recreational activity. It organizes the worldwide cooperation of the national dance school and dance teacher associations, provides guidelines for dance teacher training courses and amateur tournaments and annually elects the "international dance of the year". The German-speaking members of this section are the General German Dance Teachers Association , the Association of Dance Teachers Austria and the Swiss Association Swiss Dance .
Disputes with the IDSF / WDSF
There are two leading associations in dance: the WDC and the World Dance Sport Federation (WDSF, " World Dance Sport Association "). While the WDC claims international patronage for dancing in all its forms, especially as a leisure activity, the WDSF aims to represent dance as a recognized sport and to establish it as an Olympic discipline. In the past, both associations got along moderately by pursuing a cooperation concept.
With the election of the new WDSF President Carlos Freitag in 2006, the WDSF (at that time still IDSF, "International Dance Sport Federation") changed the course it had pursued up to now: It announced its own professional world championships, those with the previous standard / Latin - World Championships of the WDC are in competition. If both associations insist on their position, two world champions may soon be crowned each year. She also gave full support to the newly formed councils of the WDC, but at the same time stated that the formation of “pseudo-associations” must be prevented.
So far, the WDC has covered the professional area in dance sport, and the WDSF has been active in the area of amateurs. Both associations are now fishing in each other's proverbial waters. In 2005, the WDC chose a second amateur world champion through its subsidiary IDU. The WDSF drew the logical conclusion from this behavior and will organize professional world championships in early 2007. For this purpose, a second professional association was founded with the International Professional Dancesport Council (IPDSC) (since 2010 WDSF Professional Division ).
In order to “discourage influenced evaluations”, only WDSF judges are allowed to participate in WDSF tournaments. The WDSF has announced increased advertising campaigns and sees its position strengthened by the fact that it is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and, in contrast to the WDC, is entitled to introduce dance as an Olympic discipline.
The WDC urged professional dance athletes to oppose the decisions of the WDSF by only participating in the “official” WDC World Championships. Judges were encouraged to boycott the restriction, since the acquisition of the WDSF judges license also means that the WDSF is recognized as the sole umbrella organization.
Web links
- Official website
- Fred Bijster: Freedom of choice and the Professional World Championships - press release of the World Dance Sport Committee (WDC) dated December 9, 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ Carlos Freitag: The objectives of the New President ( Memento of December 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) - Declaration of objectives of the President of the International Dance Sport Federation (IDSF) elected in 2006
- ^ WDSF: History