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So now Richard and Anne Gleave have called out the WDC, and there seems to be quite the influx of people joining the WDO. Just in the last few days:
Jonathan Crossley (today)
Loraine Barry (yesterday)
Shirley Ballas (yesterday)
Michael Barr (Aug 22)
These are new additions to the growing list of WDO Members. It may be too early to say these same people our "out" with the WDC, but it sure looks increasingly likely that we are in the midst of a massive change in the leadership.

I continue to mention that WDC still has an ALL male Board of Directors with Donnie Burns as President, and Brian MacDonald as a Vice-President from America, and other men as well. The WDO does not list a "President" but rather has "founders" and "advisors" including Arunas Bizokas, Amanda Dokman, Richard Gleave, and Lorna Lee.

I am guessing that if you watch Arunas' Facebook page, more will be added soon. This looks to be something big, and so far, I am happy to see the progress.

Back in June of 2018 was the first time Richard (or possibly Anne posting in his account) they spoke, saying it was "absolutely outrageous that Freedom to Dance supporters" to be treated by the WDC this way, and it is "going to be challenged". It seems that indeed the challenge has come!
 
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I’m interested to see the attendance at the WDO Amateur Latin championship event. I would assume that if most of the big names go, it will be another challenge to WDC.
 
Some interesting details from their meeting:
1. No event will be organized consecutively in the same country
2. No organizer will organize the same event for two years.

I take this to mean that they want to prevent people "owning" large events and just collecting rent for decades, and also it makes room for more diversity in the events and who is organizing them. And maybe most importantly, World Championship events will float so that amateurs are not forced to go to the same location every year.

Amateurs will register free for the first two years and then pay 50 pounds thereafter.
 
And Paul Killick and Robert Grover added today.

There seems to be some chatter today about people wanting to destroy the WDC which was created 70 years ago and has done so much for dancing. And there is talk about how the financial management of the WDC AL should be revealed because people were misled and treated unfairly.
 
Joe said:
OTOH, while the WDC may have "done so much for dancing," it's possible a different organization could have done so much and some more.
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Sure, just repeating what they were saying, and not necessarily agreeing. I think a lot of this is people actually did do good things, but then they got too comfortable, and didn't see the changes coming.

I will especially be interested in following the people who join that are residing in the United States. I "think" Lorraine Barry, Arunas Bizokas, and Shirley Ballas spend a good deal of time here. Should some of these organizers start to get into the Pro-Am and have WDO events, we start to get a direct challenge to the NDCA. Seems like that may be a long way off, but I never could have predicted this either.
 
As for WDC board members living in the United States, I am aware of Brian McDonald and Donnie Burns both in California.
 
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DanceMentor said:
Invite me over to his house next time you go. :)

Parade of Stars.... Today Hazel Newburry
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Edited by DanceMentor... seems maybe it's best that we should not talk too much about the specifics of someone's car or where they live in too much detail.
 
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Add Alessia Betti to the list.
These are HUGE names. HUGE people.

ETA: John Wood, Donna Shingler, Anthony Hurley, Isao Nakagawa, Graham Oswick
 
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