Ballroom Dance, Riccardo cocchi, Yulia Zagoruychenko

Riccardo and Yulia teach at Dance With Me Studios!

4-TIME WORLD CHAMPION & 6-TIME US CHAMPION RICCARDO AND YULIA ARE TEACHING AT DANCE WITH ME DANCE STUDIOS!

We are so excited to have Riccardo and Yulia join the #DWMFAM and share their world-class knowledge. Here is a little biography of their accomplishments together.

Riccardo Cocchi and Yulia Zagoruychenko took the dance world by storm in 2007 when they officially announced their new partnership. They immediately gained international success, placing in the final of every single Professional International Latin tournament.

Riccardo and Yulia’s individual aesthetic style, masterful technical ability, and dynamic choreography quickly catapulted them to the top of the rankings. They quickly became a fan, and judge, favorite. At the 2010 World Professional Latin Championships in Bonn, Germany, Riccardo and Yulia were on top of the DanceSport world, winning their first World Professional Latin Championship. They then repeated in Moscow 2011 at the Kremlin Ballroom, in 2012 at the Olympiaworld arena in Innsbruck, Austria, and again in 2013 on their home floor in the United States (Irvine, California).

They are also undefeated, 6-time United States Professional Latin Champions! Go team U.S.A!

Dance With Me Studios is proud to host a two-day bootcamp with Riccardo Cocchi and Yulia Zagoruychenko at Dance With Me SoHo on April 5-6, 2014 for both youth and adult dancers.
Yulia and Riccardo Teach at Dance With Me

The schedule is as follows:

Saturday

Breakfast / Meet and Greet – 9:00-10:00
Stretching (Yulia) – 10:00-10:45
Cha-Cha fundamentals (Ricardo) – 10:45-11:30
Samba rhythms (Yulia) – 11:30-12:15
Rumba motion and emotion (Yulia) – 12:15-1:00
Break – 1:00-1:30
Paso-Doble shaping (Ricardo) – 1:30-2:15
Jiving and Wailing (Ricardo) – 2:15-3:00
Private Lessons – 3:00-4:30
Juniors and Youth Competitive Seminar – 4:30-6:00

Sunday

Breakfast / Meet and Greet – 9:00-10:00
Strength / Conditioning (Ricardo) – 10:00-10:45
Cha-Cha locksteps (Yulia) – 10:45-11:30
Samba bounce action (Ricardo) – 11:30-12:15
Art of the Rumba walk (Yulia) – 12:15-1:00 Break – 1:00-1:30
Paso-Doble man vs woman (Yulia) – 1:30-2:15
Jive Choreo (Ricardo) – 2:15-3:00
Private Lessons – 3:00-4:30
Juniors and Youth Competitive Seminar – 4:30-6:00

Space is limited.

To sign up, please contact your nearest Dance With Me Studio.

01 About the author

The person behind this guide

Ilia Vinikovskiy

Born July 16, 1990, in Kiev, Ukraine, he began his journey as a Latin dancer at 8 years old. When he was 12, he won his first national championship in the Ukraine. Ilia was only 15 years old when he was invited abroad to represent Poland and to study with top world teachers. Over the next few years he lived in various European countries such as England, Denmark, Italy, Hungary and Norway to train with top teachers and study Latin American dancing. His intense professional career led him to be very well recognized in the world of Latin dance. He has trained with world champions such as Bryan Watson, Carmen, Hans Galke, Lene and Colin James, Carolyn Smith and Graham Oswick, just to name a few.

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