© Original Text from Ballroom Icons by Brigitt Mayer The goddess of dance – beautiful, elegant, regal, warm and generous, and a lady with immense energy; this is how her contemporaries described Elsa Wells. She “gave birth” to one of England’s largest championships which has been running since 1953, The International at London’s Royal Albert […]

Ballroom Icons had its second big appearance this year! At the German Open in Stuttgart. With altogether 16 Icons and contributors, as well as the author and photographer signing the buyer’s issues over two days, this was by far the biggest and most successful promotional event for a book in the ballroom genre. The press […]

It is time for the big launch of the big book… Poor Brigitt Mayer… She will be a bundle of nerves having taken the opportunity to do what she felt was a necessity to her life and that was to write a book, based on the people whom she considered to be Icons of Dance.

We were especially pleased to have Bryan Allen speak at Blackpool on behalf of the book Ballroom Icons. Here are his words from the launch party.