Arunas and Katusha retire!

I'm always surprised when a top couple retires. But then I ask myself: did you really expect them to be competitors forever? The answer is no, but still...

Good luck to them for the future.
 
She's been competing professionally for over 20 years—including amateur, he's been competing about the same—maybe they just want to move on to something different.
 
Looks like Arunas is getting straight to business. He made this announcement an hour ago:
WDO (World Dance Organisers) Open Meeting 10am to 12pm Thursday, 30th of May at the Spanish Hall
 
Joe said:
She's been competing professionally for over 20 years—including amateur, he's been competing about the same—maybe they just want to move on to something different.
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I think that's it. As competitive people, you can only be the best of the best for so long before looking to new challenges to excel in. They've been and will continue to be a pleasure and inspiration to watch - as a female dancer I can't count the amount of times my teachers have said "look at Katusha, imagine Katusha, think of Katusha etc" when explaining something to me, or giving me inspiration. I'm sad I won't see them compete anymore, but grateful for the times where I did get to see them.
 
DanceMentor said:
I made a video reply :)
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This was oddly enjoyable to watch.
To answer you, A&K won the world title 10 times. The Hiltons won 9 times.
Dancesportinfo only has Jonathan and Arunas listed as her former partners, and there are (professional) results going as far back as September 1996 for Katusha and Jonathan. She danced in the Pro Rising Star in Blackpool in 1997, so perhaps we can conclude that she turned pro shortly before that.
 
you can hear her talk about her background in a recent podcast interview if you google "the frame work podcast katusha demidova"
 
UPDATE: Tonight, I have returned from attending a (standard) workshop from Katusha Demidova (at Capitol Ballroom). The subject was Poise, Frame, and Posture. (Swing dances were implied, but this can be applied to tango as well.) Katusha's unique presentation provided a breakthrough for me. Example: One of my pre conceptions was shattered forever: Core activation is a CONSEQUENCE of proper frame, not a factor to HELP ACHIEVE proper frame. This allowed setting up and maintaining great frame to be so much simpler!!
 
Dr Dance said:
UPDATE: Tonight, I have returned from attending a (standard) workshop from Katusha Demidova (at Capitol Ballroom). The subject was Poise, Frame, and Posture. (Swing dances were implied, but this can be applied to tango as well.) Katusha's unique presentation provided a breakthrough for me. Example: One of my pre conceptions was shattered forever: Core activation is a CONSEQUENCE of proper frame, not a factor to HELP ACHIEVE proper frame. This allowed setting up and maintaining great frame to be so much simpler!!
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I ran this past my social dance instructor Ann who is also a physical therapist. Her response was that this technically is not true. Standard and smooth dancers need to activate their core in some way. Whether it is directly done or indirectly accomplished by dropping my hips (Katusha's presentation) is neither here nor there. I still prefer Katusha's way of activating hips by lowering them which in turn activates core. This seems simpler to me than flexing my core which does not always result in dropped hips. Focusing on one thing to get two things done is simpler than focusing on two things to get two things done.
 
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