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| Amy Baker | Adjudicator - | |
| Nazar Batih | Adjudicator - NY | |
| Nazar believes that as a dance teacher, it is his job to make it as easy as possible for the student. He has spent the last four years dancing and teaching in New York, although he is originally from the Ukraine. In his quiet time away from dancing, he likes to go fresh water shing or downhill skiing. | ||
| Valeria Bushueva | Adjudicator - | |
| Mariko Cantley | Adjudicator - MA | |
| Mariko was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Mariko began training at age 5 in classical ballet. She studied at the Boston Ballet, Ballet eater of Boston, and the American Academy of Ballet with Norma Irinova, training in character dance, jazz, hip hop, and ballroom. She began ballroom while studying for her BA in History at Harvard College, where she served as Team Captain of the Harvard Ballroom Team. In 2005 she began competing professional International Standard. On a weekly basis she is on Harvard’s Campus coaching the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team. She is actively competing in the Professional Standard circuit. | ||
| Evgueni Chaoulski | Adjudicator - | |
| Bill Davies | Adjudicator - New York, NY NDCA+USA Dance+WDSF+WDC - A+ B+ C+ D+ E+ |
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Bill Davies Is currently celebrating more than fifty years as a dance teacher, competitor, DanceSport Coach and World Class Adjudicator. He is one of the founding US professionals of the Teacher Student competitions known as “Pro/Am” which have become the main stay of U.S. competitions in today’s world.
Bill was a member of the first, as well as several other United States teams which represented the United States at the British Ballroom Championships. In 1978 he placed eighth in the World Championships held in Tyoko Japan. He has won and been a finalist in numerous overseas championships. He is a nine time "North American Champion", a three times "United States Champion, runner up in the 1973 "United States American Style Championships," and has been a finalist in many Latin Championships. He is currently teaching and coaching around the world and loves to social dance. |
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| Basil Issaev | Adjudicator - | |
| Olga Kinnard | Adjudicator - Wellesley, MA | |
| Jennifer Ford McCalla | Adjudicator - Suffern, NY | |
| Jennifer McCalla is a World Class Adjudicator and highly sought-after coach. She holds the highest levels of accreditation from both FADS and the ISTD. As a competitor she was four-time United States Amateur Champion and represented the US in Latin, Standard, and 10-Dance Championhsips. She was undefeated Fred Astaire National Champions in Smooth from 1995-1997 and won many Rising Star Championship Titles at Eastern US and US in Standard, Latin, and Smooth, along with Smooth Rising Star Titles at Ohio Star, Breakers, and the Texas Challenge. | ||
| Jan Ondrias | Adjudicator - Czech Republic NDCA - |
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| Jan has been a dance teacher since 1998 previously working at Akcent Ostrava, Dance school Rytmic Brno, National Theatre in the Czech Republic and Arthur Murray Dance Studio in the USA. Jan competes throughout Europe and the US. He has been two times Master of Czech Republic in Showdance, 3rd place of Czech professional Latin American Championship and 6th place of World and Europian Championship. Since 2009 he has been successfully competing in Professional Smooth with Vivian Lessa with great results. | ||
| Ashan Samarasinghe | Adjudicator - | |
| Sara Schilling | Adjudicator - | |
| Mark Sheldon | Adjudicator - MA | |
| Anita Smite | Adjudicator - NY | |
| Anita is an world renowned adjudicator. Originally from Latvia she lives in New York where she teaches at the Dance Passion studio. Her titles include Latin Champion of Latvia; Quarter Finalist Latin World Champion, Standard Vice Champion of Latvia; 10 Dance Vice Champion of Latvia. She is WDSF and WDC Licensed Judge. | ||
| Andre Strinadko | Adjudicator - Winchester, MA | |
| Mercedes von Deck | Adjudicator - | |
| Glenn Weiss | Adjudicator - | |
| David Wright | Adjudicator - | |
| Judge ZZ | Adjudicator - | |
| Daniel Calloway | Chairman - Bethesda, MD USA Dance+WDSF - Chair+ A+ B+ C+ D+ E+ |
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* WDSF World Championship, Grand Slam and World Cup Adjudicator
* WDSF Chairman of Judges * WDSF A Adjudicator * WDSF PD (Professional Division) Adjudicator * Chairman of Judges: North American and United States Championships * Professional of the Year and Top Teacher Dan has been competing professionally, coaching and judging for over 40 years. In 1985 Dan was the youngest dual fellow in the world with highly commended fellowships in the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, the London-based society, which embodies the worlds acknowledged leaders of the dance profession. Dan is also the DanceSport coach for the competitive DanceSport teams at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland, as well as serving as guest coach at numerous other universities, congresses, and dance camps, including moderating the professional discussion panels at key events in the United States. Dan has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Religion and a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. |
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| Brad Morrison | Emcee - Bedford, MA NDCA+USA Dance - Scrutineer |
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| Brad Morrison is a ballroom dance emcee who enjoys organizing and running collegiate, amateur and pro-am ballroom dance competitions. A member of the USA Dance MASSABDA chapter, he resides in the suburbs of Boston and emcees regularly in the New England and Mid-Atlantic area competitions, including several USA Dance National Qualifying Events. He is also a competition organizer, deck captain and scrutineer. He began ballroom dancing as a doctoral student with the MIT Ballroom Dance Team and remains active with MIT and the greater Boston ballroom community. By day, he is an Associate Professor at the Brandeis International Business School, a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, an adjunct faculty at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, a visiting professor at Brown University, and faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation. He enjoys helping to organize and run ballroom dance competitions as a way of sharing his passion and connecting with the many interesting and talented people in the ballroom dance community. | ||
| Joe Huesmann | Scrutineer - Maryland USA Dance+WDSF - Scrutineer |
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Joe started dancing in 1995 while attending grad school at the University of Maryland. For the first year he was purely a social dancer; until the ballroom club coaxed him into entering their inaugural DC Dancesport Inferno competition, and he was hooked. He soon gravitated to International Standard, and focused on that style for many years.
As part of the organizing committee for the Mid-Atlantic Championships NQE in Bethesda, MD from 2009-2022, he performed technical setup for O2CM and acted as online registrar. In this capacity he became familiar with O2CM, scrutineering, and running dancesport competitions. After scrutineering college competitions for a few years, he passed the scrutineering exam in 2014. After he and his partner qualified for and danced at the world championships in 2015, she retired from competition. He elected to do the same, to focus on scrutineering and life off the comp floor. |
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| Timothy Sorrentino | Scrutineer - NDCA+USA Dance - Scrutineer |
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