2015 Blackpool Dance Festival – Team Match

The 2015 Blackpool Dance Festival Team Match brings Ballroom and Latin competition into a team setting. The United States won that year’s match under captain Eugene Katsevman, with a team including Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova, Victor Fung and Anastasia Muravyeva, Riccardo Cocchi and Yulia Zagoruychenko, and Stefano Di Filippo and Daria Chesnokova. This event recording offers a selection for viewers following professional DanceSport and the team-match format.

The Team Match is a distinct part of the 2015 Blackpool Dance Festival, bringing couples together to compete as teams rather than solely for individual championship placings. This recording is listed with both Ballroom and Latin performers.

Contemporary reporting records a United States victory with Eugene Katsevman as captain. The American team included Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova, Victor Fung and Anastasia Muravyeva, Riccardo Cocchi and Yulia Zagoruychenko, and Stefano Di Filippo and Daria Chesnokova.

The original recording catalogue also lists Michael Malitowski and Joanna Leunis, Andrej Skufca and Melinda, and Evgeny Smagin and Polina Kazachenko. The selection provides a team-match perspective on the festival, with the credited partnerships listed below. It is performance viewing rather than a step-by-step instructional course.