A new book entitled "Ballroom Icons" is now being written, with release date in Spring 2008.



Legends covered in the book can be seen at www.ballroom-icons.com/english/ and include the "legends" of the Ballroom World:

Bill Irvine, Peter Eggleton, Sam Sodano, Arthur Murray, Pierre Dulaine, Espen Salberg, Gillian McKenzie, Robin & Rita Short, Lorraine, Peter Dobner (CHRISANNE), Brian McDonald, John Monte, Nina Hunt, Bob Burgess, Doreen Freeman-Burgess, Richard Gleave, Michael Styllianos & Lorna Lee, Sonny Binnik, Wally Laird, Tetsuji Kojima, Bryan Allen, Vernon Brock, Detlef Hegemann, Lee & Linda Wakefield, Karl Breuer, Bernny Tolmeyer, Doris Lavelle, John Kimmins, Ruud Vermeij, Marguerite Hanlon, John Ford, Alan & Hazel Fletcher, Barry Free (Supadance), Ron Gun, Len Scrivener, Josephine Bradley, Henry Jacques, Phyllis Haylor, and more!

If you have stories to share with these "legends" of the Ballroom/DanceSport world, please post here or at www.ballroom-icons.com ...


NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
Glamour, movement, fascination…this is ballroom dancing. The desire to move graciously on the floor seems synonymous with the way we want to move through life.

Still a relatively young form of physical activity, ballroom dancing has developed through many stages to its present day resurgent popularity. From socially unacceptable, to social activity, as an Olympic sport, or as an art form, its transformation has taken over 100 years, very little of which has been documented ... until now.

Who were the people who moved this field of dance to where it is today, loved by millions? What are their stories? Who were their mentors and what inspired them? What is their essence? These are some of the questions I will answer in my book entitled, BALLROOM ICONS.

For more than 28 years, I have been actively involved in ballroom dancing as a participant, coach and judge. It was my vision to create a book that is through its format, a piece of art, and through its content, a true and intriguing documentation of Ballroom history. The people who ‘speak’ have influenced ballroom dancing, and its various facets. The early pioneers have passed away and we lose more and more of those who remember the ‘roots’ of this elegant craft. I want to record the knowledge of those great masters before it is lost forever. This is the central theme of the book project I have been working on for the past five years.

Until today, a book as comprehensive and poignant on this topic has not been available in any language, most literature is of a technical nature.

Now it is here! I am happy to announce BALLROOM ICONS is to be published in spring of 2008.

Brigitt Mayer
www.ballroom-icons.com