Blackpool 2006
Far’s Hong Kong and Far’s London exhibited at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool, along with a host of other companies, as part of the Grand Dance Expo, during the Blackpool Dance Festival.
It was quite a change from doing one-day university competitons. It is a lot less intense, and with practically every other company in the industry present either at the hotel or at the Winter Gardens, a great opportunity to forge new, to reinforce existing relationships and to check out the competition.
We were all too tired in the evenings to watch much dancing, though we did go and supported our sponsor couples, Sergey Tanchev & Elena Boychennko (Amateur Latin) and Ming Li & Shirley Rui Huang (Pro Latin).
Sergey & Elena placed 84th in their 3rd appearance on the UK competition circuit, after being a bit nervous in Rising Star Amateur Latin, where they came in 174th. Elena switched from ballroom to latin only 10 months ago.
Leo & Shirley improved a lot and finished Blackpool with the second highest rating of their partnership.
Espen introduced his new collection, produced by Far’s, very happily. Together with more foot traffic and consequently sales, this year’s Blackpool was more successful than ever.