Are top professional dance partners also romantic partners?

The answer has to be sometimes. There have been many cases of dance partners getting married and many cases where there was no romantic relationship.
 
From what I've seen, less often than they are. NP competed with his wife and I asked him how that worked, and he very carefuly said "We had a system which worked for us." (Mostly regarding not making it personal and not taking it home.) It's a high-stress situation to have two levels of relationship going.
 
My husband and I were partners. I think what is most difficult is a relationship likie our friends. They are both dancers, but with DIFFERENT partners. Both are pros, and compete in same catagory!
 
My studio managers/coaches adamantly believe that romantic couples do better... i dont think i agree with them. not as a rule anyway.

Perhaps they are biased seeing as how they were a high ranking married pro couple?
 
TinyDancer109 said:
My studio managers/coaches adamantly believe that romantic couples do better... i dont think i agree with them. not as a rule anyway.
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LOL, my NP and his wife competed together and his reaction was the opposite--more "It CAN work, but it's not easy and I wouldn't recommend it!"
 
I think you will always see pro partnerships where the members are also a couple...we're talking about people who spend a lot of time together and who (generally) are probably also very good at working together. I don't think it's any wonder that friendships and relationships develop out of that.

But relationships take work to maintain. When you include the added pressure of a dance career, I think that probably adds another dimension and requires figuring out how to balance.
 
Maybe we should start a list of world's top pros that are romantic:
Hilton, Baricchi, Hawkins, Villa-Colagreco, to name a few of the top Standard couples (retired and present)
 
Larinda McRaven said:
The hard part is not maintaining a romantic partnership during the dancing.... but to maintain the romantic partnership AFTER the dancing. Not many couples remain together happily after they retire...
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At the top, I think more do than not. Irvines, Barrs, Hiltons, Baricchis stayed together. Eggleton/Winslade were never a romantic couple. The Gleaves, Wood/Lewis, and Hilliers broke up.

Also, some of the ones that break up are couples where they just thought they should be married since they were dance partners rather than because of a real attraction, or where half of the couple acquiesced just to avoid breaking up the dance partnership.
 
How about some current top pro partnerships? They travel and spend so much time together.

For esample, there is a quote from Dance News from Giampero telling Dance News...."...From the moment they touched hands, the buzz of anticipatory relish flooded his brain... He found there to be an instancy of rapport as they just looked at each other and smiled. It was as if Mona Lisa in the Luvre Museum had jumped from the picture frame stright into his dancing arms..." Very romantic! He is charming and she is flirtatious!
 
especially because giampiero is already married to someone else...

fwiw, dancing & dance connections can be delicious without it signifying off-the-dance-floor romance...
 
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