November 10, 2024

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Jacksonville ballroom dancers win top honors in U.S. competition

Jacksonville ballroom dancers win top honors in U.S. competition
Jacksonville ballroom dancers win top honors in U.S. competition

Two amateur Jacksonville ballroom dancers — one a senior, the other a teen — recently won top honors in the U.S. Dance Championships in Orlando.

Linda Dennis, 71, won the five-dance Pro/Am International Standard Seniors category with dance-instructor partner Pavel Cherdantsau. The International Standard style features the waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, foxtrot and quickstep.

Dennis said she has danced other styles in the past but for the last four years focused on learning the International Standard style with Cherdantsau at the Jacksonville Dance Center. The ballroom dance school is run by Cherdantsau and his wife, Svetlana Rudkovskaya of Jacksonville Beach.

Linda Dennis, left, of Jacksonville, and Pavel Cherdantsau of Jacksonville Beach at the 2024 U.S. Dance Championships in Orlando.

“It’s been a long process to learn all of the steps and proper technique in all five dances … while still being connected to your partner,” she said. “I keep asking myself how I can possibly have the stamina and physicality to do these complicated dances, but I enjoy every minute of my lessons — not to mention the thrill of dancing like a princess to beautiful music in a gorgeous ballroom at a competition. To be judged by past champions as the best in my category at the U.S. Championships was truly an honor.”

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