Over 50 dancers attended the XS 2012 Casting session held on Monday 9th January at Milton Community Centre. The dancers represented a wide range of abilities from complete beginners in Latin American dance to very experienced competitors. 

Article published in the Cambridge News & Crier – 5 January 2012

The 2012 season will see XS Latin A dancing a very exciting new routine and XS Latin B building on their Cabaret programme.

Castings for both teams for the new season will take place on Monday 9th January at Milton Community Centre from 20:20 to 22:20.  Dancers aged from 15 to 40 are welcome to attend, regardless of levels of experience.  You do not need to bring a partner and you do not need to have had any previous latin formation experience to come along.  To compete with one of our teams you must not be a professional ballroom or Latin American dancer or a professionally qualified teacher of dance with one of the recognised dance teaching organisations (e.g. IDTA, ISTD, NATD etc).

If you would like to find out more or would like to join XS Latin but are unable to attend the casting session then please email sophie@xslatin.org or david@xslatin.org.

For directions to the Milton Community Centre, check here

XS Latin A and B teams travelled to Vienna for the annual Danube Cup on 17th December 2011.  The first division had an entry of 13 teams, including the recent World Championship finalists Zwölfwaxing A team, the German first division team Backnang A team and XS Latin A team. The second division had an entry of 11 teams and was XS Latin B team’s first international competition.

On December 2nd 2011, XS Latin A team flew to Vilnius in Lithuania for the 2011 World Latin Formation Championships.  The anticipation for this competition had been building for several months: the host team had prepared very hard for the competition but were to face stiff competition from the 2010 World Champions, Vera, from Russia and the 2009 World Champions, GGC Bremen, who had just convincingly won the German Nationals with their new routine, Blast.

The XS Latin B team made its competitive formation dancing debut at the British National Championships in Blackpool on the 17th November 2011.

Seven teams travelled to Blackpool to compete in the 2011 British National Formation Championship. XS Latin A team were very excited to support their B team colleagues who put on a crisp show full of excellent patterns to open the semi-final with their competitive debut.

This year’s Murder Mystery placed us in la Belle Epoque, on board a cruise liner.

XS Latin will be starting its own Latin Dancesport Training group from Thursday 13th October 2011. This is open to everyone!

More information, costs and directions in Dancesport Training