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Arunas Bizokas Arunas Bizokas 1978 · Lithuania · Ballroom Dance Arūnas Bižokas Morkunas (born January 29, 1978, in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian dancer. Until 2007, he and his partner Edita Daniūtė competed under the Lithuanian f Carla Fracci Carla Fracci 1936 – 2021 · Italy · Ballet Dance She is considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the twentieth century. In 1981, *The New York Times* designated her a *prima ballerina assoluta*. Starting i Donnie Burns MBE Donnie Burns MBE 1959 · United Kingdom · Latin American Dance Donnie Burns MBE (born 1959)[1] is a Scottish professional ballroom dancer, specialising in Latin dance. He and his former partner Gaynor Fairweather were 14-ti Fabio la barbera Fabio la barbera 1979 · Italy · Ballroom 10 Dance At the age of 14, he began his competitive career, progressing through the various classes through his athletic achievements, reaching Class A in the ten dances Gaynor Fairweather MBE Gaynor Fairweather MBE 1956 · United Kingdom · Latin American Dance Gaynor Fairweather MBE is a British professional ballroom dancer. She and her partner, Donnie Burns, were 14-time Professional World Latin Dance Champions and 1 Graham Oswick Graham Oswick 1965 · United Kingdom · Latin American Dance Graham began to dance at the age of eight when his mother took him to the local dancing school for his first Saturday afternoon class. After passing through the Marcus Hilton MBE and Karen Hilton MBE Marcus Hilton MBE and Karen Hilton MBE 1960 · United Kingdom · Ballroom Dance Karen Hilton MBE and Marcus Hilton MBE are a British dance couple, noted for competing in the disciplines of Ballroom and Latin American at both amateur and pro Nino Romano Nino Romano 1987 · Italy · Latin American Dance Cuono Romano, known as Nino Romano (born 12 March 1987 in San Felice a Cancello, Province of Caserta, Italy), is an Italian sports executive, international comp Paul Killick Paul Killick 1968 · United Kingdom · Latin American Dance Killick represented Great Britain in competitive Ballroom and Latin American Dancesport in the Juvenile, Junior, Youth and Amateur divisions. He won the title o Roberto Bolle Roberto Bolle 1975 · Italy · Ballet Dance Roberto Bolle (born 26 March 1975) is an Italian danseur. He is a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet. Bolle also dances regularly as a guest art Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Nureyev 1938 – 1993 · Russia · Ballet Dance Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the preeminent male Shirley Ballas Shirley Ballas 1960 · United Kingdom · Latin American Dance At the age of 15, Ballas moved to Shipley, West Yorkshire to live with the family of new partner, British Ballroom Champion, Nigel Tiffany, which she described Walter Laird Walter Laird 1920 – 2002 · United Kingdom · Latin American Dance Walter William Laird (26 July 1920 – 30 May 2002) was a major influence in the development of Latin American dancing in Britain after the Second World War. He w
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