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Ballroom Icons in the News

The following documents are news articles and interviews about Ballroom Icons featured in various publications.

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• Press Release September 17, 2010: Canadian ballroom dance author has intimate connection with Dancing With the Stars
  Brigitt Mayer-Karakis, author of Ballroom Icons, has a close connection with many of the professionals involved with the hit television show Dancing With the Stars. Read about those relationships in this press release.

• Article from Neue Rhein Zeitung, August 2010
  NRZ counts among the biggest regional newspapers in Germany, and is the major newspaper of the Rhine and Ruhr region. This article about Ballroom Icons appeared August 25. (2Mb PDF)
• Article from Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, August 2010
  This newspaper article about Ballroom Icons appeared August 27 in the paper of U.H. Mayer's home town of Reutlingen, in Germany. As a young freelance photographer, his photos often graced the pages of this paper. (4.7Mb PDF)
• Article from Rheinische Post, August 2010
  From Brigitt's native Germany comes this review of the Ballroom Icons book as it appeared in the Rheinische Post newspaper. Article and interview in German, of course. (2.7Mb PDF)
• Article from Australian Dance Review, June 2010
  From the land down under comes this review of Ballroom Icons, with some references to Australia's historic past in ballroom dancing. (279Kb PDF)
• Article from DanceBeat special Blackpool Edition, May 2010
  DanceBeat examines the iconic nature of the Blackpool Dance Festival in this comprehensive special article highlighting some of Blackpool's great moments (1.2Mb PDF)
• Article from Oakville, Ontario Beaver newspaper, Feb 2010
  The newspaper features the story of Brigitt's journey producing the book Ballroom Icons (2.1Mb PDF)
• Article from Dance Today, July 2009
  Reporter Alison Gallagher-Hughes explores Brigitt's “Journey of a Lifetime” in this detailed 5-page magazine article (1Mb PDF)
• Article from DanceNews, May 2009
  Reporter Jack Reavely covers the book's launch party in words and photographs (1Mb PDF)
• Article in Blackpool Gazette, May 2009
  Craig Fleming's Memory Lane column reviews longtime Blackpool organizer Gillian MacKenzie's lasting influence on the dance festival, featuring her appearance in Ballroom Icons (345K PDF)
• Interview in Dance Beat, April 2009
  This article, entitled “Chatting with Brigitt Mayer” chronicles the vision behind the Ballroom Icons book project (346K PDF)

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