The Road to Worlds
The European Championships 20 08
Every year, hundreds of Line dancers compete at the World Championships. In a series
of articles, Benny Ray reports from selected WCDF events throughout Europe. In this third
instalment we go to Holland for the prestigious European Championships.
Every year at the end of June, the event Julia Oertel, Roy Verdonk and I had the performances by Stephanie Smeers and
takes place at the beautiful Koninghshof pleasure of doing some of these workshops. Roy Hoeben, who were later crowned as
Hotel in the city of Veldhoven, located just I also had a chance to teach a few dances European Champions in their respective
outside of Eindhoven in Holland. With more in the workshop room, where Wil Bos was divisions. To end things on a high note
than 500 dancers, the event has two large putting in a lot of hard work doing several before the awards, the audience were
ballrooms exclusively for the competition, workshops and organising open dancing for treated to a great show featuring some
and one room for workshops. Competitors every one every day. fantastic Irish dancing, and a fun show and
are very skilled and many are sure to face workshop with Pim Van Grootel and Daniel
off again at Worlds, making this event an Friday and Saturday night’s parties were big Trepat. Only a few months remain before
important place to make one’s mark. hits, as DJ’s Alex Boone and DJ Wout made the WCDF World Championships are to be
sure the fl oors were packed with both the held in Germany. For some, there are still a
It is almost impossible to describe the level newest fl oor fi llers and classic dances. They few competitions to qualify, for others, the
of professionalism and dance knowledge also had some fun competitions for everyone road to Worlds is now completed.
gathered in this one place. With levels
soaring to new highs each time, for many
having the opportunity to watch a dancer the music.
like Roy Verdonk in action in the Advanced
open division is a simple “must”.
Yo u certainly can witness plenty of variation Buckle awards.
with different intertwined divisions.
Workshops also guaranteed that a lot of
people had a chance to get on the fl oor
and learn some great new dances, without
worrying about getting back in time for the
next competition to start. Daniel Trepat,
Roy Hoeben, Pim Van Grootel, Matt Oakley,
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