Đuzepe Poštaj

LEARNING LATIN AMERICAN DANCES

In that period our dancers were supposed to go to Denmark to compete in the First World Championship of Latin-American Dancing in Copenhagen. On 9 September 1995, for the first time in the history of the Dance Alliance, we sent the pair Damir Karaman and Nina Zisko to the World Championship that was being held in Copenhagen in the Arhaus. This was the first time we sent representatives to such a major championship. In ‘95 we also organized the second, State Championship in Zenica. This State Championship in Zenica was very difficult to organize, however. Competitors had to leave from Sarajevo. There was a time when we wondered whether the state Championship would be held at all, because we couldn’t find a way to take the competitors out of besieged Sarajevo, especially as they were young school children of 9, 10, 11 and 12, and that was an enormous responsibility. We had to get parental agreement, too, and the agreement of bodies that issued permits to leave the town at that time. However, we managed to solve all these problems.