Sentence examples for professional ballroom from inspiring English sources

After graduating in 1985, Marina became a professional ballroom dancer.

In Russia, when they met in 1993, she was a professional ballroom dancer.

A $400 million-a-year industry has sprouted up offering Quinceañera planners, cruises and professional ballroom dancers to teach the ceremonial waltz.

The people who partner the stars on the show are not just professional ballroom dancers; in their field they are bigger stars than their partners are in their fields.

She might be the first 82-year-old to hike her foot above her head on network television — even if it took a little help from her professional ballroom partner, Corky Ballas.

9 P.M. (7) DANCING WITH THE STARS -- In July, judges named Kelly Monaco, an actress on ABC's daytime soap "General Hospital," the winner of this competition, which paired actors with professional ballroom dancers.

In the 1970s, Come Dancing was a stuffily glamorous, semi-professional ballroom-dancing competition, beamed from regional venues (often Blackpool), where women wearing American-tan nylons and ostrich-effect feathers would dance the paso doble with grinning blokes in shiny trousers.

In this new atmosphere of accessibility, two subcategories developed: professional exhibition ballroom dancing, in which a couple was paid to demonstrate in front of a paying audience, and competitive ballroom dance, in which amateur couples performed within strict regulations for prizes or titles.

The professional-competition ballroom version of rumba, however, is a monstrous scion.

Dr Cable, who is set to partner ballroom professional Erin Boag, informed delegates at the Association of Colleges' annual conference in Birmingham he was already practising for the hit show.

The undefeated fighter from Newbridge, south Wales, is to partner the Siberian ballroom professional Kristina Rihanoff in the BBC1 show, according to a report in the Western Mail.