In 2012 Michael Malitowski and partner Joanna Leunis won first place at a festival held at what ballroom?
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Michael Malitowski Michael Malitowski is a ballroom dancer, a former World Latin Dance Champion with his partner Joanna Leunis. Michael (christened "Michał") was born 28 May 1980, in Zielona Góra, Poland. His partnership with Leunis has, since 2002, resulted in a string of victories: in 2008 and 2009 they won the World Professional Latin title, and in 2012 they won first place in Latin dance at the Blackpool Dance Festival. This is the prestigious Open British Championships held every year in Blackpool, England. Before that, he won the Polish Latin dance championship four times with Iwona Golczak.
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Blackpool Dance Festival The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival is the world's first and most famous annual ballroom dance competition of international significance, held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England since 1920. It is also the largest ballroom competition: in 2013, 2953 couples from 60 countries took part in the festival.
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Sopot Hit Festival Sopot Hit Festival - is international song contest, bringing contestants and guests who are stars with world recognition. It has been transmitted annually by the Polish Television in the coastal resort of Sopot, Poland. Together with National Festival of Polish Song in Opole and Sopot Festival it the biggest Polish music festival.
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Orpheum Dresden The Orpheum Dresden is an event hall, the oldest ballroom in the Äußere Neustadt district of Dresden, Germany.
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Slamdance Film Festival The Slamdance Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on emerging artists and low-budget independent films, created in 1995.
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Len Goodman Leonard Gordon Goodman (born 25 April 1944) is an English professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach.
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Miss Universe Canada 2012 Miss Universe Canada 2012 was a beauty pageant contest held at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto.
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Summer Sound Festival Summer Sound Festival is an electronic music festival that is held in Helsinki, Finland. It has been organized since 2012 by Heikki Liimatainen and Alex Kunnari - the founders of Summer Sound Festival Oy. However, the very first festival was held on 2011 at Suvilahti, Helsinki before it became a brand. It was just one day event. In 2014, Summer Sound Festival was considered the biggest EDM festival in Northern Europe.
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Rhythm Festival The Rhythm Festival was an outdoor music festival held in Bedfordshire. From 2006 until 2010 it was held at Twinwood Arena, near the village of Clapham In 2011 the festival moved to Shuttleworth House, Biggleswade. The 2012 Festival was due to take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend but was cancelled and the festival has not taken place since then.
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Agustin Egurrola Agustin Egurrola (born 8 September 1968 in Warsaw) is a Polish professional dancer, choreographer, international judge of ballroom and modern dance competitions and television personality.
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Riverdance Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. Featuring Irish dancing champions Jean Butler and Michael Flatley, and with a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. Shortly afterwards, husband and wife production team John McColgan and Moya Doherty expanded it into a stage show, which opened in Dublin on 9 February 1995. Since then, the show has visited over 450 venues worldwide and been seen by over 25 million people, making it one of the most successful dance productions in the world.
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2012 Slamdance Film Festival The 2012 Slamdance Film Festival was a film festival held in Park City, Utah from January 20 to January 26, 2012. It was the 18th iteration of the Slamdance Film Festival, a complimentary fest to the Sundance Film Festival.
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Empress Ballroom The Empress Ballroom is a 3,000 capacity entertainment venue, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It is located within the Winter Gardens, a large entertainment complex in the town centre.
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Twist and Pulse Twist and Pulse are an English street dance duo based in London. They were the runners-up of the fourth series of "Britain's Got Talent" in 2010, coming second to Spelbound in the live final. In 2012, they presented and performed at every date of the 70-day Olympic Torch Relay Tour and also at the basketball, badminton and volleyball events at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Algorave An Algorave is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques, and short for "algorithmic rave." Alex McLean of Slub and Nick Collins coined the word "algorave", with the first event to be held under that name taking place in 2012. It has since become a movement, with algoraves taking place around the world.
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Jonathan Wilkins Jonathan Wilkins is an English ballroom dancer and dance teacher, born in London. He holds many titles in Professional Ballroom Dancing including being 10 times Professional Ballroom Champion, 1997 - 2007 ( in a partnership with Katusha Demidova which lasted eleven years, and brought considerable success). In 2004 they won the World Classic Showdance Championship, which is one of the subsidiary World Dance Council Dance Sport events. Their final result was to win the WDC Open Professional Ballroom title at the USA Open in Orlando, Florida 2007.
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2012 National Finals Rodeo The 2012 National Finals Rodeo were held from December 6–15, 2012 in Paradise, Nevada with the exception of steer roping which was held in Guthrie, Oklahoma from November 2–3, 2012. All events are sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association with the exception of barrel racing which is sanctioned by the Women's Professional Rodeo Association.
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Jestem "Jestem" is a song sung, written and composed by Magdalena Tul, who represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Magdalena won the national final (Krajowe Eliminacje 2011) with 44.47%, a record in past years, leaving the second place with nearly half of her percentage. An English version of the song titled ""First Class Ticket to Heaven"" was announced as the version to enter Eurovision, but this decision was reversed and the Polish version competed. Later, another English version was released under the title ""Present"".
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2012 Mr. Olympia The 2012 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition and the feature event of Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 2012 held September 27–30, 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the 48th Mr. Olympia competition. Other events at the exhibition included the 212 Olympia Showdown,
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Nuestra Belleza Oaxaca 2012 Nuestra Belleza Oaxaca 2012, was held at the Teatro "Macedonio Alcalá" in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca on June 16, 2012. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Almudena Villasante from Oaxaca City was crowned the winner. Villasante was crowned by Lupita Jones, National Director of Nuestra Belleza México. Six contestants competed for the title.
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Highline Ballroom The Highline Ballroom is a music venue and nightclub located at 431 West 16th Street in Manhattan in New York City.
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2012 Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2012 Golden Spin of Zagreb (Croatian: "Zlatna pirueta Zagreba" ) was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2012–2013 season. The 45th edition of the annual senior-level event was held on 13–16 December 2012 in Zagreb, Croatia. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.