Winning Dances

Absolute Beginner - Lipstick Powder & Paint by Stephen & Claire Rutter

Beginner - Ticket to the Blues by Niels Poulsen

Improver - The Bomp by Kim Ray

Intermediate & Dance of the Year - Uptown Funk by Rob Fowler

Advanced - Shades of Passion by Rob Fowler

Dance of the Decade - Beautiful in my Eyes by Simon Ward

Congratulations to all of the winners - I'm sure we'll be dancing the above dances for many years to come. I look forward to what line dancing has to bring over the next 12 months and look forward to seeing the 21st CBA awards (no I don't have tickets).

My next post will be a review of the Karl-Harry Winson event I attended in Abingdon.

Firstly, I just want to say a huge congratulations to all the nominees for the Crystal Boot Awards (some of whom are featured below), every single nominee strongly deserved their nominations and has contributed to make Line Dancing in the UK (and beyond) as wonderful as it is, so thank you so very much to you, the team at Linedancer Magazine and also to the instructors out there without whom many of us would not be line dancing.

Before I go any further I would just like to confirm that due to various commitments over the weekend and technical issues with access (thanks Betty Drummond for finally getting me access!) I was unable to watch much of the weekend over the live broadcast so much of my information comes second hand from my Mum and Facebook so thank you to all those who have posted pictures and videos online from the weekend.

So without further ado the winners are (with photo's courtesy of CBA website):

Dedicated Dance Artist - Outstanding Achievement: Natalie Thurlow

Dedicated Dance Artist : Richard Palmer

Dedicated Dance DJ: Dave Baycroft

Female Dance Personality: Jo Thompson-Szymanski (on the left)

Male Dance Personality: Karl-Harry Winson

UK Instructor & UK Choreographer: Rachael McEnaney-White

International Instructor: Ria Vos

International Choreographer: Niels Poulsen

Dancers' Choice : Walt Hsu

The Irene Crossley for the love of dance award: Jean Webb

Star Award for outstanding contribution: Jean Garr

Hall of Fame: Nicola Lafferty

Coming up in Pt 2 - Winning Dances