Ballroom Dancing Every 2nd Sunday

at

Painesville Township Park

6:00PM to 9:00PM

1025 Hardy Road, Painesville Township, Ohio

Dances are held on the following dates for 2010;

• Music is pre-selected from a list of everyone’s favorites
• Requests are welcomed:
  If you would like to make music requests for our monthly dances ahead of time, e-mail Warren at...
  whparks@oh.rr.com
• Help for beginner dancers is provided upon request

North Coast Ball - Dinner Dance

Our annual dinner dance is held on the 2nd Sunday of September. Reservations are required. Send in your reservations today. Download the flyer and registration form now.

2010
2009
2008

This year's dance performances will feature Ilia Volokh and Yuliva Volokh from WHYM studio in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

Ilia brings with him over 30 years of dancing, teaching and performing in the United States and Russia. Ilia’s career began with the formal ballet training.  He graduated from the Moscow’s Institute of Theater Arts with a Masters of Dance Education.  Ilia directs our dance program, leading the education curriculum for our teachers and ensuring highest service quality for our clients.

Yuliya has been dancing most of her life and has been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for the last 6 years. She graduated with two degrees – Sociology and Spanish – from CWRU and is now pursuing her PhD from CSU

Biography excerpts and photos taken from:
http://www.danceatwhym.com/teachers

In 2009 our dance performance was done by Rebecca Sweet & Heriberto Perez from Viva Dance.

Rebecca Sweet, owner of Viva dance! is a Cleveland native. After graduating from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts in dance, Rebecca moved to New York City where she worked for 10 years performing, competing and teaching Latin and Ballroom dance, dancing in the Eddie Torres Latin dance company, and managing Paul Pellicoro's Dancesport, Manhattan's largest Ballroom and Latin dance studio. In 2005, Rebecca returned to her hometown to open the New York-style partner dance studio, Viva dance! in Strongsville.

In Cleveland, Rebecca has performed with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra; in Channel 8's Dancing with the Cleveland Stars segment for Robin Swoboda's "That's Life" in an interview with Danielle Serino of Channel 19 called "Belle of the Ball." Rebecca placed 3rd in Cleveland's Dancing with the Stars for Channel 5 in May of 2009 and also performed for the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland's Annual Promenade in November of 2009. Rebecca has judged numerous Salsa competitions as well as showcases for Absolute Ballroom in Pittsburgh and for Dance Plus in Columbus. She teaches "Ballroom Blitz" for the Cleveland Playhouse and has danced with Emmitt Smith in a commercial for Good Feet Arch Supports.

Rebecca is a subject of media both in front of the camera and in magazines. She was interviewed for Cleveland Magazine's February 2007 issue and Cleveland Business Connect's April 2007 issue. Rebecca has won numerous awards in business such as "On the Road to Success" award in 2005 by Business Advisors of Cleveland, was asked to speak on a panel about entrepreneurship for the 20/30 Club in 2008, and most recently was one of 12 women honored in Crain's Cleveland Business Magazine in their 2009 issue on "Women of Note."

In New York, Rebecca has worked with Robert DeNiro, Daman Wayans, Winton Marsalis, Chayanne and Vanessa Williams, Method Man, RZA and other well-known artists. Rebecca was a member of the Eddie Torres Latin Dance Company. She performed and taught in Salsa Congresses in Los Angeles, New York, Puerto Rico, Holland and England. As a competitive Latin dancer, she has competed, performed and taught internationally in England, Greece, Holland, Italy and Turkey and has won competitions and/or placed in finals in Rising Star and open events.

Tony Dovolani, Dancing with the Stars professional partner to Stacy Keebler, was Rebecca's first dance partner while in New York before she switched to the International Latin style of dance. Currently, she dances with Heriberto Perez of Cleveland. They have been featured on numerous television morning shows where they have taught celebrities to dance, have performed professionally for Channel 5, Channel 19 and Fox 8 and have been in all 3 Cleveland versions of Dancing with the Stars. Their show includes International Latin dances, American Style Rhythm dances, Argentine Tango and New York Style Mambo.

Biography excerpt taken from: http://www.vivadancestudio.com/instructors/hPerez.asp

In 2008 our professional dance demonstrations were done by:
Jessica Todero and Minas Katsantouris

Jessica Todero has competed professionally as well as Pro-Am events around the country for the past ten years.  Jessica has had 23 years of dance experience and has taught for over ten years around the Cleveland and Boston area, teaching all four styles of ballroom and Latin dance. 

She has won several top teacher awards around the Ohio area. As well as several competitions around the country from 1999 – 2003, she is a former Fred Astaire regional champion and National Rising Star Champion in American rhythm for 2006.

She is now co-owner of the Elegance in Ballroom and Latin Dance studio in Chagrin Falls, Ohio

Minas Katsantouris is a renowned choreographer, performer and dance instructor. He is one of the choreographers for 'Latin Fever'. He has performed with Anna Vissi, Greece's biggest star, and was a featured dancer in her clip "Lambo" before moving to the United States where he lived for the past 10 years. He has performed in clips for Mado "Our Love," Michael Rakitzis "I can," has choreographed for fashion shows for the designer Tranoulis, and has appeared on numerous television shows in the United States including Live with Regis and Kathy Lee and Sabado Gigante. Minas has done modeling for Rilken and was recently featured on 10 CD covers for BMG's Latin music series. Minas was also a regular performer at the famous Copacabana in New York City. In addition, he is a United States Finalist in Professional International Latin. He has trained with top coaches such as Louis Van Amstel(featured on Dancing With the Stars), Paul Killick, Tony Meredith and Melanie LaPatin.