On April 17, 2010, the Club Céronne will host the
The championship is over, the pictures sighted, the gallery will be built as fast as possible. The words of encouragement of the couples in the run-up and also on Saturday in the form of filled with enthusiasm and raging spectators were enormous. It was a pleasure seeing what can happen in the competitive dancing if those dusty regulations don't have to be adhered so stringently when "something new" comes up, which no-one knows yet.
We recorded the first registrations for this championship already at the beginning of the year. Over 30 registrations had come in until a week before. Unfortunately, a volcano got in our way, the cloud of dust hung over Europe, put the air traffic out of action and therefore one cancellation after the other arrived us.
Sören and Bradley Stauffer-Kruse from London, the vice-world's champions in Equality-dancing, have been quite particularly sorry for their refusal. The two had offered to put on a show at the TanzBar on Friday and had already looked forward to it, too. But there was no escape from the island. So the party took place without the show, but sufficient fun and place was nevertheless.
On Saturday, I arrived in the Céronne hall with a traffic-related delay at ten past one. The "general Look" of the Latin dancers just had run. For "normal dancers", that is to compare with a presentation dance. The sighting round for sorting the couples to their start classes ran, and the audience uproared. The fans and also the "competition couples" cheered on the dancers so loudly that Michael Münster had to turn on the music to make itself heard. The six remained Latin couples spared by illness and flight failure were divided up into two classes (C and B). The winners of the C-Class, Anna Heuer and Neele Becker from Schönberg then danced in the B competition, too, occupied place four. Our local heros Mark Kriebisch and Tobias Völker got second in C class, which meant the first Hamburg masters Equality Latin.
Then the Ballroom couples were called to the general Look. 16 out of 23 registered couples were divided up into all four leagues (D to A) in the sighting round. In the C Ballroom tournament, Anna and Neele danced and won the tournament with almost all ones, also danced the B competition, also could be brilliant in all dances so that the A Ballroom was number five on the plan. With place five in the last tournament they have put a proper walk through. Respect! Our Ballroom couple Sabine Kunze-Schmidtner and Angie Schmidtner also could cash in the first title Hamburg master of Equality Ballroom with place three in the C-Class tournament.
Everyone agrees: This must not be a nine days' wonder, this championship was only the beginning. We look forward to 2011 and the 2nd Hamburg championship in Equality-dancing!