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2002
Dancesport Championship is on Dharshan Wijesooriya,
the Managing Director of Footwork told a press conference that getting
down the 'Ten Dance Champion' couple from UK was a tough job. "We
are getting the best from the world and it will be a good exposure
for our dancers" he said. Vincent Simone
and Flavia Cacace will make a scintillating performance, which will
be in two segments as five dances of ballroom and five dances of
Latin American. "To watch
Simone's and Flavia's performance alone will be an exhilarating
and rewarding experience for both contestants and the spectators",
he said. There will be demonstrations by other exponents of Dancesport
too. Students from
Ravi de Abrew Dance Centre and Naomi Rajaratnam's dance school,
Elle Latino, Dance World and Strict Tempo Dance School will take
part in this year's competition. Ravi de Abrew, a professional in
the field of dance said within a period of two months he trained
two couples for the competition. Novice, pre-amateurs
and amateurs of the various dances in the two categories-Modern
Ballroom and Latin American will vie each other for the selection
of the 2002 Champion couples before a panel of international adjudicators.
Participants are due to perform dances starting from Waltz, Quickstep,
Viennese Waltz, Slow Extort and Tango or Jive, Cha-Cha, Samba, Rumba
and Paso Doble. The main sponsor
of the event is Carlsberg, while Hilton is the host hotel . 'Golden
Melodies'in Negombo This show will
be staged mainly to raise the funds in support of purchasing the
Beira grounds as a matter of college priority. The land area covering
the Beira grounds is not owned by St. Joseph's College. "A crying
need to expand the SJC's sports activities and call it Josephian
own grounds will be our main aim"said Eustace Silva, the Chairman
of the organising committee. Annesley Malawana,
who is an old boy of St. Joseph's College, Colombo will present
this show with a galaxy of top artistes. Sohan Weerasinghe, Mariazelle, Ronnie, Corrine, Errol and Maria Fernando, Joe B. Perera, Priya Pieris, Uresha and Nimal Jayamanne will be in action at this show. One of the popular backing bands in Sri Lanka, 'Simple' led by Mahesh Silva will provide the musical backing for all the artistes. Vijaya Corea will compere the show. 'Ryan's
Daughter' at Russian Centre This is a film
of master director David Lean starring Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum,
Christopher Jones, John Mills, Trevor Howard. The film bagged two
Oscar Awards for best supporting Actor - John Mills and Best Cinematography
award. Ryan's Daughter
is a touching story of an older school master married to a much
younger woman, who has an adulterous affair with a handsome young
English Major. For further details please contact Chandi on 685429/685440 between 9 am to 4.00pm. TV
Times denied entry Our photographer,
who called on Sunday for duty, specially to cover this event, was
not allowed to enter the Hall even after showing his office identity
and Media accreditation Cards. TV Times was
the media sponsor of this event and Mount Lavinia Hotel was one
of the co-sponsors. We didn't know
that Mount Lavinia Hotel had taken the security sponsorship too. However, the Show was a great success and Kings fans were really happy. Hope the Kings will be in action at one of the popular venues in town in the near future. |
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Ten
Dance Champions from United Kingdom are due to perform for the first
time at Footwork Dancesport Championship scheduled to be held on
August 4, at Hilton Colombo.
