To enter the Gala Ball as a competitor, please fill out our online entry form!

The long-awaited renovations of the Class Notes pages on this web site are finally here! Just in time for Pin Tests! Check out the new system for keeping up to date with the figures taught in class and please feel free to offer comments or suggestions. The class notes are updated as of January 31st.

Thirty dancers travelling from Vancouver to Orlando on January 3, 1998 did not get very much sleep. For ten days, these dancers, representing the University of British Columbia Dance Club, competed in over thirty different events and placed in the finals of each event. In addition, the UBC Dance Club Latin Formation Team performed wonderfully in the Formation Team competition and placed first! Team Florida would like to thank the club for its undying support and to thank Calvin Lee, coach and choreographer of the Formation Team. Congratulations to our representative dancers! They have done us proud!

The web girl's holiday gift #1 to you... an easier and faster way to find what you want. Also holiday gift #2, a brand new Photo Gallery for your perusal. View many of our photos from Gala Ball, Team Match and much more! Happy holidays everybody!

Missed your copy of the newsletter? Lost it? Worse, your shoe bag ate it? Well, we've conveniently posted the feature articles at this new page. Go look for yourself! You'll find articles about Team Match '97, a first-hand experience of a brand new competitor at the Grand Ball, Gala Ball '98 and lots more!

Or pick up your copy of the newsletter at the club office (SUB Room 241J). You'll find a ton of things to do over the holidays and all the class notes up to November 15th!

November 10, 1997

The International Dancesport Federation (IDSF) today named the University of B.C. Dance Club's 36th Annual 1998 U.B.C. Gala Ball as an IDSF "World Ranking Tournament", with the status of an "IDSF Open To The World" Ranking Competition in Standard Dancesport and Latin & American Dancesport. IDSF Ranking Points will be awarded to all couples placing in the second round and higher in this prestigious Canadian competition.

The competition is scheduled to be held at the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver, Canada on Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14, 1998. The U.B.C. Gala Ball is one of Canada's premier amateur dancesport competitions. The 1998 Gala Ball is one of only three IDSF-granted competitions scheduled in North America during that year.

Based in Switzerland, the IDSF is the world governing body for amateur dancesport. In September, 1997 the IDSF was admitted to full voting membership in the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It has applied for acceptance into the Medal Program of the Olympic Games. Further information about the IDSF is available on its Web Page at: http://www.rullens.com/idsf/index.htm .

The Canadian Amateur Dancesport Association (CADA) is one of IDSF's "National Sport Federation" nation-members.

The U.B.C. Dance Club is a student-based club founded at the University of British Columbia in 1949, and has 1,200 members. For decades its annual Gala Ball has included the British Columbia Open Amateur Dancesport Championships.

Information on the 1998 36th Annual U.B.C. Gala Ball IDSF "Open To The World" Amateur Dancesport Competition is available from: University of British Columbia Dance Club, Box 29, Room 241J, Student Union Building, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z1, telephone ++ 604-822-3248, and at its site on the World Wide Web at the following address: http://www.ams.ubc.ca/Clubs/Social/dance/index.htm .

Jim Fraser
President/Pr�sident
Canadian Amateur Dancesport Association
Association Amateurs de Danse Sportive du Canada