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Carlos Custodio and Elena Plescenco chosen as ambassadors of the new, innovative ZEM Dancesport UK dancewear collection. We are proud to present new designs of dancewear for medal competitions, social dancing and practice beautifully modelled by Elena and Carlos. All garments from this collection are made in UK and are available from us from stock. For more info visit our Dancewear dept. or jump directly to Latin dancewear or Ladies Ballroom dancewear or Evening dancewear or Mens Latin or Mens Ballroom

Distributors wanted We are looking for business partners interested in distributing ZEM Dancesport UK dancewear range across the world. If you are a business or business minded person contact Eva webmaster@zem.co.uk for details.

New logo We have introduced a new logo combining the names ZEM and Dancesport UK in one to indicate that our business is a fusion of two companies. We hope you like it.

New major CD releases: We have just added two major new music double album releases to our shop, titles include The Ultimate Ballroom Album 15 and The Ultimate Latin Album 13. When was the last time you updated your CD collection? Visit our Music dept.

Debut of the year 2012: VOLVER Argentine Tango and Social shoes Volver is a new Italian company designing and making fantastic and comfortable ladies shoes, which do not cost the earth. We especially like their very creative Strictly Argentino range, although all Social dancers looking for new, inspiring shoes will find something for themselves in Volver range. For more info visit our Virtual Shoe Shop

Great DVD SALE We are having a great DVD clearout! Selected titles incl. Blackpool Festival 2011, UK Open 2011, Asian Open 2011 are now reduced, but hurry as stocks are limited. Visit our DVD SALE page

Detachable hair pieces by Tamishyo of Japan We are proud to be able to offer you world's finest competitive hair pieces made by Tamishyo, Japan's finest company specialising in making hair pieces for competitive ballroom dancers. Attach and detach these pieces to create amazing, professionally looking hairstyles for competitions, shows or special events. Perfect hair style in a few minutes! Looks and feels like natural hair. For more info visit our Hair pieces dept.

Dance to Your Maximum Since its first publication approx. 5 years ago this book has become a Bible for competitive dancers all over the world. We are proud to announce we now have in stock its 2nd edition, now in hard cover. For more info visit our Books dept.

THE OFFICIAL IDTA Technique of Ballroom Dancing by Guy Howard is now available on DVD! It is a breakthrough DVD. The Ballroom dancing community has had to wait for 50 years for this release. Now learning the official ballroom technique can be achieved five times faster, as students and teachers do not have to visualise the steps from boring tables in a book. It has come alive for us all, with the wonderful demonstration of David Sycamore and Denise Weavers, five times World and European 10-Dance Champions. For more info visit our DVD department

New shoe ideas from International When it comes to creativity International Dance Shoes have always been in the lead. Now this world leading shoe manufacturer has created three new ranges for ladies: Plaited range, Sequin range and Crystal range. All three are definitely a breath of fresh air in the dance shoe world. For more info visit our Virtual Shoe Shop

2012 UK Open Dance Championships will not be available on DVD Due to very difficult situation in Japan after the earthquake in 2011 Studio Himawari, the Japanese DVD producer who has been making UK Open DVDs in the previous years was unable to come and film the event. Studio Himawari expects they will be able to come next year and UK Open will be filmed again.

New DVD release: Advanced Latin-American Technique After The Advanced Standard Ballroom Technique with Mirko Gozzoli and Alessia Betti released in 2010 the World has been screaming for the equivalent DVD with Latin-American Technique. Finally now these requests have been answered and we have The Advanced Latin-American Tecnique demonstrated by Michael Malitowski and Joanna Leunis. A delightful, highly educational release. ...visit our DVD department

2012 Chrisanne new practicewear range As always cool and stylish items great for practice that make you stand out on the floor. There is something for Ballroom Ladies and for Latin Ladies too!. For more info visit our ...dancewear dept.

We are also offering a special limited edition collection Inspired by Karen Hardy produced by Chrisanne. Available now.

2011 World Super Star Dance Festival on DVD: Is now ready and is shipping now. Two separate DVDs are available: Standard and Latin. These are no doubt the most spectacular of all dance DVDs. For more info visit our DVD department

SALE STOCKS: Great bargains to grab

2012 World Super Star wall calendar This large size (63cm x 42cm) wall calendar featuring the photos of the best dancers in the world taken by the best photographers in the world will make a beautiful feature in a dance studio or private home. It is available now! Additionally we are adding one free calendar to any order over £100 excl.VAT till stocks run out ...more info and ordering

2011 Santoria Berrenillo collection Is the latest and hottest dancewear collection for ladies to come from Santoria, one of the fastest growing names in dancewear business. It must be said Santoria never runs out of ideas, it has excellent designers and skilful seamstresses too! Berrenillo collection is now available from us. Check it out. For more info visit our Dancewear department

2011 Blackpool Dance Festival on DVD: Is now ready and will start shipping from the beginning of August 2011. If you want to be one of the first people to have it - order now. For more info visit our DVD department

Major new DVD release: This is probably the most comprehensive technical ballroom DVD release of the last decade, Diamond Collection by Richard and Anne Gleave is a 5-DVD set with their lifetime dancing and teaching experience on it. In our opinion it really is a real Diamond. They do not only know how to do it, but they know how to teach you to do it too! For more info visit our DVD department

Cindini dance shoes We are quite impressed with the new range of shoes made by Cindini. The ladies Latin shoes we have tried are very soft and have thick padding in the soles, in our opinion they are not in any way behind the more famous brands. Cindini have also released fun to wear silver and gold sneakers. For more info visit our Virtual Shoe shop

another new DVD release: MUSICALITY by Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova with commentary by Geoffrey Hearn. If you are looking for new ideas for content-full, action-packed, danceable, advanced ballroom groups with top of the world demonstration available in slow motion - you have just found it! Now in stock and shipping. For more info visit our DVD department

2011 Blackpool Dance Festival For the most up to date results from Blackpool see dancesportinfo.net or visit Blackpool Dance Festival official website www.blackpooldancefestival.com

2011 Blackpool Congress DVDs featuring 16 lectures from world's top coaches is now available from our DVD department. Competition DVDs coming soon. Watch this space!

2011 Asian Open Professional Dance Championships on DVD now in stock and shipping! Asian Open is the only competiton coverage DVD which shows EVERY finalist couple performing a FULL dance. From 2011 it is a double DVD set covering not only the competition, but also the Tokyo Congress with lectures from world's leading coaches. For more info visit our DVD department

2011 Blackpool Dance Festival Wall Calendar now Half-price We still have a few copies of this Beautiful wall calendar featuring the World Super Stars Selection. Now the calendar is available from us half-price at £4.95 ...more info.

Oliver Wessel-Therhorn 1960-2010 Following the sudden passing away of this great Teacher and Lecturer at the age of 50, a collection of 8 lectures showcasing his talents has been put on DVD. All profits from the sale of this release are directed to the Oliver Wessel-Therhorn Trust Fund for the continuance of his two children. For more info visit our DVD department

Pursuit of Perfection by Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova This is a great instructional set of 4 DVDs taught by the current undisputed World Champions. This DVD is an eye opening lesson concentrating predominantly on proper technique and less on choreography. For more info visit our DVD department

Santoria 2011 Rangoli collection Wow! This new dancewear collection for Ladies from Santoria is even more fantastic than the previous ones! Over the last years Santoria established themselves as world trend leader in dancewear and they certainly can design and make great outfits. For smart practice and special occassions. This year we divided everything into 3 groups: Long skirts for Ballroom, Short skirts for Latin and Medium length skirts for Universal (all dance) applications. For more info visit our Dancewear department

New Latin DVD releases Franco Formica & Oxana Lebedev and Sergey Surkov & Melia released their first DVDs. These new releases are now available in our DVD department too!

The Irvine's Legacy is a new double DVD (and a book) release compiled by Oliver Wessel-Therhorn with William Pino and Alessandra Buciarelli as supporting actors. Do not think it is just a celebration of Bill and Bobbie's memory, this is actually a very educational DVD containing a vast compedium of knowledge you would normally acquire only by taking a large number of private lessons with Bill or Bobbie. We give it 10 out of 10. For more info and to order visit our Video/DVD dept.

New ABC's of Ballroom DVDs now in stock! This is probably the most eagerly awaited DVD release of recent years. After the release of ABC of Ballroom on video tapes in the mid- 90s with Augusto Schiavo and Caterina Arzenton there was no product on the market to match it for a long time... until now! Now Caterina Arzenton comes back with a new DVD release. In our opinion a must for any serious Ballroom dancer. For more info and to order visit our Video/DVD dept.

The Best of The British Open Professional Ballroom Finals 1990-2008 This is a brand new, beautiful release of two DVDs covering the Finals of this most prestigious dance competition. Observe how the style of dancing was changing from 1990 to 2008 and admire the quality of the dancing of the best 6 couples in the world at the time. For more info visit our Video/DVD dept.

Shopping with even more confidence: We have extended our return period from 30 to 60 days, so if the items do not fit you can return them for exchange or refund within 60 days from invoice date, no questions asked. All we require is that the items have not been used and are returned in resalable condition quoting your original order number. Full terms of business

Debut of the year .... and the winner is Jason Cutler of ELITE COUTURE (the costume designer for Strictly Come Dancing Star Matthew Cutler as well as many international dance stars) with his quality mens latin shirts made to your real measurements! Not of the peg S/M/L sizes. All done within around 7-10 days. All items can be easily ordered online through our Dancewear dept.

Men: Become up to 3" taller Create more dominant picture and control your partner better. All that is now possible with U-Tall (TM) a new, innovative shoe technology by DanceAmo. For more info visit our Virtual Shoe Shop

Hot, New DVD releases:
  • Michael Malitowski and Joanna Leunis, Ready to Perform. A hot, brand new instructional DVD from the current World Professional Latin-American Champions.
  • Jonathan Wilkins and Hazel Newberry, Line Figure Combinations for Ballroom Dancing. From runners-up in this year World Professional Dance Championship
Now in stock. For more info and to order visit our DVD deparment

SWAROVSKI sew-on stones We are pleased to announce a new addition to our stones offer: Dazzling Swarovski sew-on stones in amazing shapes. For more info visit our Stones dept.

PRECIOSA stones Did you know we also offer Preciosa stones, a cheaper alternative to Swarovski stones and only a very experienced eye will see a difference! For more info visit our Stones dept.

Swarovski stones Did you know we sell Swarovski stones too? Check our latest very competitive offer in our Stones dept.

New generation Tail Suits Revolution in tail suit making: New technologies have crept from other sport disciplines into ballroom dancing. Now ballroom dancers can benefit from improved top line and lighter tail suit that never creases. All these thanks to Pure Class new Feather Touch Tail suit. For more info visit our Dancewear dept.

ISTD official Latin-American Syllabus and Technique now on DVD For anyone studying a technique book these DVDs will come as an enormous relief, as now you can see how things should be done rather than having to imagine them. For more info and to order visit our DVD dept.

Interviews and news from Russia New generation of Fake Tans German scientists, who first introduced to the market the famous Super Braun and Profi-Tan are now coming with a new range of even better products. Especially the instant effect spray-on Sexy Tan is the centre of attention. For more info visit our Fake tan dept.

International Standard and Latin syllabus on DVD By popular demand we are happy to announce we now have the complete Ballroom International style Standard syllabus and International style Latin syllabus on DVDs! For more info visit our Video and DVD dept.

Holiday and Dance now has a new website with full listings of our holiday events and electronic newsletter. For more info visit www.holidayanddance.co.uk.

Dance for England is another new site creating opportunity for young dancers to enjoy dancesport with the support of subsidied training programme. For more info visit www.danceforengland.org.

A Technique of Advanced Standard Ballroom Figures The DVD the whole ballroom industry has been waiting for for decades is finally released! A visual reference book showing 97 advanced ballroom figures categorised by Geoffrey Hearn and beautifully demonstrated by Mirko Gozzoli and Alessia Betti. This DVD is becoming the new ballroom Bible. For more info visit our video and DVD dept..

The Ultimate Argentine Tango DVDs: Now also Leaders Technique, Followers Technique, Milonga, Vals, Milonguero. Finally the Ochos, Ganchos, Boleos, Barridas, Paradas, and other mystery Argentinian Tango steps are demystified. Recommended. For more info visit our Video/DVD department

Rummos shoes: Back by popular demand After a break necessary to restructure the production we are happy to announce that Rummos shoes are back with a new and improved collection. People who bought them in the past loved them and now the shoes got even better. For more info visit our Virtual shoe shop.

17 years of internet trading Being one of the oldest companies in the world promoting Dancesport on the internet, ZEM Software - Dancesport UK fusion is celebrating the 12th anniversary in business. During those 16 years we had over 5 million website visitors and had the visitors counter lost and restarted three times during various system upgrades. We sent over 50,000 parcels with various dance related items to 23 countries of the world. Many thanks to all of you for so many years of continued support.

Dancesport UK does not send any unsolicited emails We are frustrated to hear that some people received spam apparently signed by ZEM or Dancesport UK webmaster. Please be assured we do not send spam or any unsolicited emails to anyone. If you received such message in the last few weeks please report it to webmaster@zem.co.uk to help us investigate who sends them.

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