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

Article published in the Cambridge News & Crier – 21 July 2011

XS B Team has moved training venues to a larger hall and will now be training regularly at Cottenham Village College Sports Centre on Thursdays from 1830 to 2000.  If you would like to come along and find out more about what we do then please visit us or contact David Mallabone.

To find our training venue then please visit the Cottenham Sports Centre website.

The UK Formation Championships is a historic competition which has, for many years, not been held. Thanks to Philip Wylie, the Championships were reinstated in June 2011 and competitions were held for Juvenile, Junior and Adult formation teams at the wonderful Tower Ballroom in Blackpool.

Twelve teams, including representatives from China, Germany and the USA, came to Blackpool to contest the 2011 British Open Latin Formation Championship, making it the biggest British Open formation competition for over 20 years. Six teams were recalled to the final and XS Latin, after dancing a superb final, were pleased to finish in fourth place, making them the highest ranking European team in the competition.

Article published in Cambridge News & Crier – 19 May 2011

XS B Team held its first training session tonight, which was attended by about 30 eager people!  The team will be dancing a brand new routine to the music of the Broadway musical Cabaret and are aiming to be ready for competition by the end of the year.  Anyone interested in joining or finding out more should contact David Mallabone, the head coach for the Adult teams.

XS Latin is starting a brand new B team! Aimed at those dancers who do not think that they have the time or experience to dedicate to joining the A team, the B team will train on Thursdays from 6.30pm to 8pm and will be dancing a brand new routine. Dancers of all levels, including beginners to latin american dance, are warmly invited to join. For further details then please contact us