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Trained in England since
1984, Shawn & Gladys are reputed to be the best professional
ballroom dancers in Singapore today.
Popularly known as Singapore's Dancing
Sweethearts, Shawn & Gladys started their teaching career when they
set up their own studio, the Shawn & Gladys DanceWorld, back in
1986.
For twelve consecutive
years from 1982 to 1993, they danced their way to no less than
twenty prestigious championship titles throughout the world. They
competed in Austria, France, Germany, England, USA, Hawaii,
Australia, Holland, Yugoslavia, Belgium and throughout Asia, winning
numerous prestigious championship titles including the 1985 Doris
Lavelle Challenge Trophy (England) and the 1990 Asian-Pacific
Ballroom Dancing Championships (Korea).
After winning the South-East Asia
Professional Latin Championships (Thailand) in 1987, this superb
husband and wife team went on to make regional dance history by
becoming the first professional dance couple in South-East Asia to
win both the Latin & Modern titles in the same championships in
1989. To top it off, they repeated the feat twice in the same year
at the 1989 Malaysian International Ballroom Dancing Championships
in June, and again at the 1989 Malaysian Professional Ballroom
Dancing Championships in August. This marked the beginning of their
reign as the South-East Asia Professional Latin & Ballroom
Champions. 1992 and 1993 saw the couple maintaining their winning
streak by clinching the prestigious 2nd Asian Ballroom Dancing
Championships title in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Open Ballroom
Dancing Championships respectively.
Over the years, Shawn & Gladys together
with their team of dancers have performed frequently on TCS
programmes and other creative promotions. These include National Day
Celebrations, the launch of the Singapore Airlines (SIA) MegaTop,
Merlion Week, Count Down Singapore, and Heartstrings, the Community
Chest fund raising event. In 1992, Shawn & Gladys together with the
Social Development Unit (SDU), organised the first-ever mass
Ballroom/Latin-American dance item for the National Day Parade
Celebrations.
Shawn & Gladys have earned a stately
reputation for coaching excellence. This is evident in the long
string of regional championship titles won by their students.
Besides coaching competitors and dancers, they have also attained
international recognition as adjudicators. They have been numerous
times to judge at international events and are among the rare few
Asian adjudicators to judge at the World Championships, in
particular the prestigious World Youth Modern Championships
(Germany), IDSF World Standard Championships (Japan), IDSF World
Senior Latin Championships (New Zealand), IDSF World Latin
Championships (Switzerland), United States DanceSport Championships
(USA), and the German Open (Germany).
Driven by a strong passion for
dancesport, Shawn & Gladys have been active in the promotion of
dancesport in the Asia-Pacific region. Shawn is currently the
Advisory Director to the Asian DanceSport Federation, and Presidium
Member of the International DanceSport Federation. |
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