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BALLROOM DANCERS"Arial, Arial, Helvetica"> BALLROOM DANCERS Ballroomdancers.com is a web site that offers a learning center, a dance directory, classified ads, store, discussion message board and other related information.

BALLROOM MUSIC HELMUT LICHT'S MUSICAL SERVICES, etc. provides another source of dance music and other useful information

CENTRAL HOME Centralhome.com is a web site dedicated to the promotion of dance, exercise, fitness and sports.

DANCE ASHEVILLE Dance Asheville Newsletter is a free informative website published newsletter aimed at sharing information about our rich dance community. All types of dance events, classes, workshops and performances, both locally and regionally, are included

DANCE LOVERS, USA is a dance studio in Asheville, NC and offers over 70 Ballroom Dancing Instructional Videos and DVDs for social dancers of all levels. Dances include Ballad, Bolero, Cha Cha, Country, Foxtrot, Hustle, Line Dance, Mambo, Merengue, Nightclub Two Step, Polka, Quickstep, Rumba, Salsa, Samba, Shag, Swing (single & triple), Tango, Viennese Waltz, Waltz and West-Coast Swing.

DANCE PLUS Dance Plus is a ballroom dance supply company that sells strict-time ballroom dance CDs from all over the world to dancers everywhere. We are a Canadian company with the majority of our customers living in North America. We have created this site to inform people about the variety of ballroom dance music that is available to suit every dancer's taste.

DANCESCAPE TV Dancescape TV is the internets premier dance television network. Not only providing a shopping source for dance related materials, it provides interactive communications between dancers, offers fashion information and a page called Passion.

DANCEVISION DanceVision is a ballroom dance supply company that sells all kinds of dance related product over the Web.

DANCE UNIVERSE DanceUniverse is a website aimed to give all necessary and useful information on ballroom dancing and dancesport. It also works as a source of ballroom dance items like Dance Music CD's, Videos, Dance Shoes, Dancewear, etc.

DANCINGUSA  Dancing USA magazine and online website mission is to provides an efficient gateway to information and news about the wonderful world of partner dance catering to dancers of every ilk: Swing, Tango, Salsa, Latin, Standard, Smooth, Rhythm, Beginner, Intermediate, Pro-Am, Professional, and Teacher.  

DSOA  Dance Shoes of Atlanta specializes in providing dance shoes at affordable prices for both the professional and social Ballroom dancer.

DTOL Dance Teachers On Line (DTOL) is an on line listing of all kinds of dance teachers and studios from all over the world.  It is a communications interface for, and between, both non-students, students, teachers, studio operators, etc. It is a venue for the advertising of dance teaching services and dance related material.  And, it offers much more.  

GLIDE  Glide Dance Shoes is a California based manufacturer and direct seller of of dance shoes to the Ballroom, and other dance communities.  Glide Dance Shoes has been in business for over twenty years and offers the finest quality and craftsmanship available in the United States

IDSF  The International Dance Sport Federation  (IDSF) aims is to promote DanceSport internationally and to work for further acceptance by the International Olympic Committee.  To enhance the sporting appearance of DanceSport and make it attractive to a worldwide television audience.  To protect and develop our cooperation with IMG, our Joint Venture marketing partner.  To provide standardized rules to which all International Competitions organized by its members are subject.  To advise and assist its members with their work in their own countries.

IDTA  The International Dance Teachers Association (IDTA) is a modern, progressive and forward thinking Association. It provides a wide range of examination services that have been established over time and meet the needs of both the public, the professional performer and teaching aspects. The IDTA is a Government accredited QCA body. The Association continues to work with the various Government agencies and representative bodies, in order to keep abreast of current trends and indeed, influence the progress of dance.

ISTD   The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) is the world's leading dance examinations board. Formed in 1904 it is today a registered educational charity and is the only organization that covers the full spectrum of dance examinations.  The ISTD's chief objective is "to educate the public in the art of dancing in all its forms". To achieve this, the ISTD works in four main ways:
� to promote knowledge of the dance
� to maintain and improve teaching standards
� to qualify, by examination, teachers of dancing in the ISTD's specialist techniques taught by our 10,000 members in schools of dancing throughout the world
� to provide, through its syllabi, techniques upon which to train dancers for the profession.
 

MITCHELL DANCE SYSTEMS  Mitchell Dance Systems is an independent authorized representative of SHOWTIME DANCE SHOES & DANCEWEAR as well as a source for competition dancewear representing DESIGNS BY LYN WALLANDER and DEIRDRE OF LONDON.  Striving to provide whatever the dancer needs, when it is needed most, there is a variety of new and used costumes available for ladies plus Men's and Children's wear, including a variety of shirts, accessories and jewelry.

NDCA  The National Dance Council of America  (NDCA) is the official governing body for dancing in the United States.  

SHOWTIME  Showtime Dance Shoes site is an online source for all popular brands of dance shoes and dancewear products.  It also features a dance directory listing dance studios across the country and publishes an online newsletter with timely articles and information of interest to dancers.

USISTD  The United States Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (USISTD) has several Aims and Goals, along with three main objectives. , They are:.First: To coordinate and develop the interests of teachers of International Style Ballroom (Standard) & Latin American dancing, American Style Ballroom (Smooth) & Rhythm dancing and Theatrical Style dancing on the North American continent within the standards established by the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London   Second: To cooperate with other recognized teaching organizations, in particular the National Dance Council of America Inc., in order to work for harmonious relations within the profession and, where pertinent, with the ISTD. Third: To work for the protection, elevation and advancement of the dignity, prestige and interests of the art of Ballroom Dancing and DanceSport and in particular of the profession of teachers of dancing. To establish in connection therewith, standards of professional ethics and conduct, and procedures for discipline of its members in case of a breach of said standards of professional ethics and conduct.
bullet Our Goals include setting and maintaining uniform standards of dance in all branches of dance associated with the US Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance. We do this in a variety of ways, such as offering "closed-to-syllabus" events in our competitions, promoting our Medals Testing programs, offering Congresses, Lectures and other Training Seminars, and in as many other ways as possible.
bullet Our Aims include helping our members achieve their goals in dance, the certification of highly qualified teachers and adjudicators, providing scholarship monies to qualifying individuals, and the betterment of dance in the United States.