Tatsiana Lahvinovich Galchun
Tatsiana was born in Minsk, Belarus and started dancing at age of 6. During 28 years of a long competitive career she won all major competitions including: the European and World Championships in both Amateur and Professional Division,
World Cup, Grand Slam, German Open Championship, Blackpool, UK and International.
Now an adjudicator, she has judged many high-profile events such as: Grand Slam, Grand Slam Final, GOC, multiple World Open, European Amateur Championship 10 dance, World Under 21 Championship 10 dance, World Amateur Latin Championship.
Together with her partner (Zoran Plohl) and her husband (Alexey Galchun) she has a dance school in Slovenia, where she teaches top couples and organizes International Training Camps. Her students have won 11 World Championship titles.
Vladimir Karpov
I started dancing at 7 years old and began to teach at the age of 15. For the last 4 years I have been living in the USA where I have coached and trained couples who have become USA National Champions, World Championships finalists in the Youth 10 Dance category, World Game representatives and WDSF Smooth World Champions. Couples who I teach are champions of Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Israel, and Canada. I am also a WDSF Category A and PD Adjudicator as well as a World Championship and Grand Slam Adjudicator. Some of my achievements are:
World Champion Latin American Freestyle
Two Time Winner of the World Cup Amateur Latin
Winner of the European Cup Amateur Latin
Winner of the First World Dance Sport Games (Latin American Freestyle)
Finalist of the European Championship Amateur Latin
Russian National Champion of the Latin American Freestyle and Professional Division Latin
Second Place of the World Championship Professional Division Latin
Second Place of the World Championship Professional Division Latin show Dance
Head Latin Coach for the USA national team
Emanuel Valeri
12 times Danish Champion
2 times World and European Amateur Champion
Blackpool and International Amateur Champion
World and European PD Champion
Paolo Bosco
The 13 years of an extraordinary competitive career together for Paolo Bosco and Silvia Pitton were characterized by talent, tenacity, hard work and desire to get to the top of DanceSport. After placing second in the Youth category at Blackpool in 2000, the couple went on to compete in the finals at the most prestigious competitions in the world. The first World Titles came soon after: Aarhus (2006), Moscow (2007) and Wien (2008). Then the triumphs at UK, International and Blackpool, and in 2009, they won Italy’s first gold medal at the World Games in Taiwan in front of 18,000 enthusiastic spectators. After winning everything, Paolo and Silvia turned Professional and became World Professional Standard Champions in 2010 (Olsztyn) and 2011 (Tallin), and 2010 World Classic Show Dance Champions.
Now, Paolo and Silvia are dedicated to teaching and to their career as WDSF international adjudicators, trying to convey their knowledge and passion for DanceSport.
Anna Melnikova
Dmitry Zharkov
Anna Matus
