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Performance TitleSixty-Third International Ballroom Dancing Championships 2015, in aid of the British Polio Fellowship
Performance Date8-9 October 2015
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time17:45
Secondary PerformersJohn Leach - Championship organiser,
Nigel Horrocks - Chairman of the adjudicators,
Jackie Conway,
Matthew Bakewell,
Mark Lunn - scrutineers,
Adele Preston-Tanaka,
Alan Fletcher,
Alberto Pregnolato,
Allan Tornsberg,
Alison Fulham,
Andrew Sinkinson,
Andy Liang,
Augusto Schiavo,
Barbara Grover,
Bing Cheng,
Bryan Allen,
Carmen,
Carol Macraild,
Carol Powell,
Caterina Arzenton,
Cheryl Beresford,
Christopher Short,
Darren Bennett,
David Douglass,
Denise Weavers
Donnie Burns,
Ferenc Polai,
Glenn Weiss,
Graham Oswick,
Greg Smith,
Hazel Newberry,
Ian Waite,
Jane Lyttleton-Byrnes,
Joanne Bolton-Hawkins,
John Kimmins,
John Wood,
Jonathan Crossley,
Jonathan Wilkins,
Junichiro Kusunoki,
Karen Hilton,
Kenny Welsh,
Klaus Kongsdal,
Kyoko Amano,
Leonid Pletnev,
Len Armstrong,
Lorna Lee,
Loraine Barry,
Lorraine,
Lu Ning,
Lynn Harman,
Manfred Wang,
Margaret Redmond,
Massimo Giorgianni,
Matthew Cutler,
Melia,
Michael Barr,
Michael Wentink,
Monica Needham,
Nicola Nordin,
Odile Aufrere-Auxenfants,
Pamela McGill,
Pat Thompson,
Paul Killick,
Philip Jackson,
Richard Gleave,
Richard Porter,
Richard Rose,
Robert Bellinger,
Roberto Villa,
Sammy Stopford,
Sergey Ryupin,
Shirley Balla,
Sirpa Suutari,
Stephen Hannah,
Stephen Hillier,
Takeshi Sasaya,
Terence Lay,
Timothy Howson,
Tony Dokman,
Tor Flysvik - judges
Orchestra or BandRoss Mitchell Orchestra,
Paul Fielding Orchestra,
Ross Mitchell's Dance and Listen Orchestra
ConductorsRoss Mitchell
Set ListDance Championships:
Waltz - 'Moon River' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Tango - Adios Muchacos' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Foxtrot - 'Younger Than Springtime' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Quickstep - 'Let's Face The Music and Dance' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Cha cha cha - 'Pata Pata' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Samba - 'Begin the Beguine' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Rumba - 'Memory' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Paso Doble - 'Spanish Gipsy Dance' (Ross Mitchell Band),

Waltz -'Lover's Waltz' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Tango - 'Blue Tango' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Foxtrot - 'On the Street Where You Live' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Quickstep - 'Dlo Quickstep Medley' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Cha cha cha - 'Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Samba - 'Coffee Song' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Rumba - 'Somehwere Over the Rainbow' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Paso Doble -'Concerto de Aranjuez' (Dance and Listen Orchestra)

Waltz - 'What'll I Do' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Cha cha cha - 'Wouldnt' It Be Lovely' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Tango - 'Pionciana' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Samba - 'Half a Minute' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Viennese Waltz - 'Delihla (Ross Mitchell Band),
Rumba - 'The Look of Love' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Foxtrot - 'Smile' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Pado Doble - 'El Conquistador' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Quickstep - 'Opening Night' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Jive - 'Wake Me Up Before I Go Go' (Ross Mitchell Band),

General Dancing (with Iain Mackenzie):
Band Insturmental - 'Hot Toddy' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Foxtrot - 'Moondance' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Quickstep - 'Hello Young Lovers' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Cha cha cha - 'Sway' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Foxtrot - 'Witchcraft' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Jive - 'Pencil Full of Lead' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Jive - 'I Wanna Be Like You' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Swing - 'Beyond the Sea' (Dance and Listen Orchestra)

Waltz - 'Jean' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Cha cha cha - 'Teach Me Tonight' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Tango - 'Golden Tango' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Samba - 'Peanut Vendor' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Vienesse Waltz - 'My Favourite Things' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Rumba - 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Foxtrot - 'That Old Feeling' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Paso Doble - 'Spanish Gipsy Dance' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Quickstep - 'How High The Moon' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Jive - 'Muskrat Ramble' (Dance and Listen Orchestra)

Waltz - 'Papillon' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Cha cha cha - 'Save the Last Dance for Me' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Tango - 'La Cumparista' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Samba - 'Hot, Hot, Hot' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Vienesse Waltz - 'Blue Danube' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Rumba - 'All of Me' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Foxtrot - 'Love Walked In' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Paso Doble - 'Spanish Matador Dance' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Quickstep - 'Sing, Sing, Sing' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Jive - 'Candy Man' (Ross Mitchell Band)

General Dancing - Carnival Interlude:
Quickstep - 'Good to See You Medley' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Quickstep - 'Sweet Georgia Brown' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Cha cha cha - 'Talk to the Animals' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Cha cha cha - 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Foxtrot - 'Time Medley' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Foxtrot - 'Sinalong Medley' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Foxtrot - 'Nostalgia Medley' incld. 'We'll Meet Again' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Waltz - 'Could Have Danced All Night' (Ross Mitchell Band),

Waltz - 'Passing Breeze' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Cha cha cha - 'Mercy' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Tango - 'Blue Tango' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Samba - 'Something in My Eye' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Vienesse Waltz - 'Skaters Waltz' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Rumba - 'Love is You' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Foxtrot - 'Dream' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Paso Doble - 'Spanish Gipsy Dance' (Ross Mitchell Band),
Quickstep - 'Lullaby of Broadway' (Dance and Listen Orchestra),
Jive - 'Dance With Me Tonight' (Ross Mitchell Band)

'TV Fanfares' for Prize Presentations,
Honour Dances:
Quickstep - 'Dancing in the Dark',
Jive - 'Jump, Jive an' Wail',
Waltz - 'Onedin Line',
Rumba - 'Diamonds Are Forever'
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesAmateur and professional dancers strut and swirl in streamline suits and sequinned dresses at the annual International Ballroom Dancing Championships. The best dance talent in the country will compete at the Royal Albert Hall. Around 360 of the world’s foremost amateur and professional exponents of competitive Dance Sport compete for the International Standard and Latin titles.

The event was filmed by DSI (DanceSport International) Ltd., London and streamed live via their website.

A charity collection was held for British Polio.

Photographs of the event were taken by the Dance News official photographer Ron Self.

The event ended at 12:50am.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/2015/144),
Digital Setlist
Ticket Prices£25-£68.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/83q84yA83LZztP
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2015/144Sixty-Third International Ballroom Dancing Championships 20158 October 2015
RAHE/8/7/2015/40International Ballroom Dancing Championships set list8 October 2015
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10287Sixty-Third International Ballroom Dancing Championships 2015, in aid of the British Polio Fellowship1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/20432Hardy; Karen (1970-); English professional ballroom dancer, coach, teacher and adjudicator.
DS/UK/10837Ross Mitchell Band and Orchestra; fl 1980s-; British dance band
DS/UK/2461Dance and Listen Orchestra (1995-)
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