The Riviera Dance Festival Experience 2007
Celebrating our 25th Anniversary Year!
Our Dance Festivals incorporate fabulous holidays with a great festival atmosphere, none more so than the Riviera Dance Festival held at Torquay in Devon. The 25th annual presentation of the English Riviera Dance Festival was celebrated in style!
Social and competitive dancers from the UK and overseas enjoyed an amazing and nostalgic week of dancing with highlights of World Class Demonstrators in cabaret. The excellent demonstrations at the Festival highlighted the many famous names who have delighted us over the last quarter of a century. This year was no exception with two separate Gala Night cabaret performances, first from World and European Amateur Latin Champions, Peter and Kristina Stokkebroe with their showstopping performance, followed on the final Thursday night by Amateur Standard Champions Marco Cavallaro and Joanne Clifton and Professional Latin Champions Alex Ivanets and Lisa Bellinger-Ivanets in cabaret. We also welcomed again an impressive dancing performance from our wheelchair dancers who received a standing ovation from an appreciative audience.
For pictures from previous Dance Festivals, see our Festival Diary.
Do you have a Riviera Dance Festival story to share?
If you have a story or pictures (digital only please) from any of our 25 years, we'd love to hear from you. Send it in an email to Holiday and Dance and we'll post it in our 25th Anniversary section.
The Riviera Dance Festival, is a wonderful opportunity to meet new friends and enjoy dancing in a relaxed, fun and genuinely friendly atmosphere. Many guests returned in this 25th Anniversary year to renew friendships, develop their dancing and learn with top professionals. As usual, we enjoyed tea dances, workshops with eminent dance coaches including current and former champions, practice sessions, dancing and/or competing every night and of course, great cabaret performances from dance champions. For anyone interested in competing, every festival has a full programme of competitions for all levels.