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To all of you who came and supported City Lights Ball, we extend to you our heartfelt thanks and gratitude for making it the great event that it was. Be sure to return to this site shortly because we will be posting some video highlights of the event.
And now we'd like to request some feedback from you so we can make next year even better.
Look who graced our floor! Thank you all!
Results from our professional competitions:
Professional Open Latin
1) Vaidotas Skimelis & Jurga Pupelyte - Ca
2) Pavlo Barsuk & Anna Trebunskaya - CA
3) Marcus Johnson & Yuki Haraguchi - ca
4) Egor Novikov & Ekaterina Zakharoff - WA
5) Dmitry Kurakin & Violetta Kurakin - CA
6) Sergey Korshunov & Michelle Hafle - TX
Professional Open Smooth
1) Thomas Mielnicki & JT Thomas
2) John Selby & Irina Chalkevitch - CA
3) Sergiy Shapoval & Liza Smith - NV
4) Youriy Pavlov & Anna Shahbazyan - CA
5) Paul Cloud & Borbala Bunnett - CA
6) David M Estrada & Lisa Cristiani - CA
Professional Open Standard
1) Victor Fung & Anna Mikhed
2) Mikhail Avdeev & Anastasia Muravyeva
3) Slaveyko Baylov & Irena Kaklamanova
4) Andrea Faraci & Erica Ridgeway
5) Maksim Sinitsa & Lela Sinitsa
6) Ikaika Dowsett & Katya Afanaseva
7) Igor Ustymovych & Olga Ginzburg
Professional Open Rhythm
1) Jason Daly & Bonnie Marie
2) Ivan Dishliev & Marieta Nedyalkova
3) David M Estrada & Lisa Cristiani
4) Jessie Villalobos & Kahale Zimmermann
5) Nathan Simler & Lecie McNees
2008 Testimonials
"Thank you for putting on such a great competition. I just can't say enough how much I enjoyed it. Everything was done on time. The MC was great. The St Claire was a fine choice of hotels. Took good care of us. The civic auditorium was just lovely. The decorations was well done. I can't say enough about how you run the competition. I will always choose the City Lights Ball as one of the competitions that I will do next year. - Judith"
"We were pleasantly surprised to see how you transformed the cold basketball civic center floor into a nice, comfortable and elegant real dance floor with lots of ceiling and floor lights plus using the stage and putting real chairs and tables around. We will support you whenever you go. Thank you!"
"That was the most professional event that I have attended in my ten years of dancing. The decorations the length of the dances and how we were treated as competitors. I would make that event a priorty no matter how far or what date."
"City Lights Ball is my favorite competition to attend. Dancing was absolutely wonderful."
"I love the fact that City Light Ball invited some world level competitors such as Victor and Anna...very exciting to watch!"
"Have been an excellent competition to watch; and it's even better now. That's why we keep going back!"
"The floor is impeccable!"
"The overall lighting and atmostphere was very nice and gorgeous. I loved the places in both SF and SJ. Gifts are generous. Keep it up!"
Photos by Stephen Marino
Left to right: Tomas Atkocevicious and Aira Bubnelyte, Maxim Kozhevnikov and Yulia Zagorouitchenko, Felipe and Carolina Telona, Victor Fung and Anna Mikhed, Benji Schwimmer.
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