Okay some of you may say that Dancesport England is IDSF and EADA is BDC. Is that the case here? If you think that is the situation, you only need to look at the composition of the Board of Directors of EADA and Dancesport England. They are similar.
Can you join Dancesport England directly without being a member of EADA? You cannot!
From my analysis of the situation, Dancesport England is as dead as the DODO bird so far as international dancesport is concerned. From the BDC stand point, the Mecca of Ballroom dancing MUST be in England and no where else in the world.
The most honourable thing for Dancesport England to do is to resign from IDSF! Look at David Corefield's letter especially the last line " our hobby and your business will be permanently damaged or even destroyed". What a joke, he looks at dancesport as a hobby, and the other look at it as a business. None of them care to look at the sporting aspect of Dancesport. That is how IDSF sees it, a sport.
I do hope David Corefield and Dancesport England just terminate their affiliation with IDSF.
There is a silver lining to all this, at least IDSF knows that EADA are not at all a sporting body and as a hobby, it fits well with BDC " Dance for Pleasure and Love it Forever". A decision has been made and so be it. Without doubt BDC will accept the prodigal son back to their fold, and they should.
As for IDSF a word of advice, a National Sport Association like Dancesport England cannot be subservient to another body. How can they possibly chart their own directions or carry out the policy of IDSF when they are answerable to a body like BDC, who are hostile to IDSF? Next time I do hope they will choose their bed partners carefully.
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David Corefield is definitely leading English Dancesport to Hell.
This David Corefield chap is BDC Trojan Horse. IDSF you just got played out
EADA did the right thing, they have no business being in IDSF or be associated with IDSF. Finally David Corefield came to his senses, so IDSF what are you going to do, no representative from the MECCA of Ballroom dancing.
Takes the sting of the importance of Ballroom dancing as a sport right?
Bryan Allen it is time to mend fences and forgive EADA, they are young and in a rash of the moment they did something silly by leaving BDC. If at all just censure them.
WDC AL perhaps you are right that EADA should have gone back to BDC. Perhaps you might as well tell them to relinquish their IDSF recognition. However , I want to ask you this question, will England be represented in Dancesport in say the next World Games? Looking at the situation now, I do not think so.
EADA`s credibility and integrity are questionable when we see a big flip flop decision making in a period of less than a year! This being the case, EADA should not have left BDC in the first place.
Those interested to join IDSF should be given the freedom of choice to form their own organization free from obligation to another dance organization.
This incident strongly suggests conflict of interest in decision making for DE when we see almost same group of people running both EADA and DE.
Will the group in favour of rejoining BDC have enough honour to just quit DE to concentrate on their 'hobby and business' leaving those interested to focus on their 'sport' with DE?
"If you see an Englishman and a Cobra, kill the Englishman first" -Siraj ud-Daulah, Nawab of Bengal 1756. (Black Hole of Culcutta). Englishman word is his bond-Bullshit!
@WDC AL: I totally agree with you.
EADA should leave IDSF (sports) and rejoin BDC (social dance)
On the World Games I extracted this from Wikipidea.However it makes no difference to England anyway.
"The World Games are organized and governed by the International World Games Association (IWGA), under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Some of the sports that were on the program of The World Games eventually made it as Olympic sports (such as rhythmic gymnastics, triathlon, trampoline etc. Participation in past World Games is included in the evaluation criteria used to select new Olympic sports adopted by the IOC..."
@skydancer4: BDC and WDC believes they are over and above the IOC. Fake imperialistic ideas.
Anon: 9.49p.m. I know that as readers sometimes it can be frustrating, personally I hope to build bridges rather than to tear them down. What I see is BDC is consumed with Pride, Anger, Greed, Jealously and Ignorance.This will eventually lead to the destruction of BDC and Dancesport in England will decline. England glory days are over,have you seen any English Champions lately.Russian, European and the Chinese are coming out. Why is this so? But I feel sad that the twain will never meet, not because of rationale reasons at all.
I hope IDSF finally wake up do something about this mess - they sure have been ignoring it for long enough!
EADA's loyalties were made pretty clear last year when they blocked the IDSF event in London last year, at the instructions of their BDC overlords.
http://www.eada.org.uk/New/eadaforum/index.php?topic=3519.0
Like many people in Britain, I find the current disagreements between the British Dance Council, EADA and IDSF depressing. I don't think the British Dance Council is blameless, although I do agree with some of their arguments viz a viz art versus sport.
However, what is even more depressing is the very anti British sentiment and aggressively immature tone of phrase so often displayed in by this blog, by someone who has a responsible position in the danceworld, and therefore should know better.
I honestly think that you don't want to see a resolution to this. You certainly seem to be doing as much as you can to inflame the situation with your comments rather than help conciliate.
This comes across as a very insincere blog written by someone who seems to have a chip on their shoulder regarding Britain's dance history. If you regard British dance as so unimportant then why bother to write this blog and get involved in the argument in the first place.
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