"Ballroom Dancer" follows onetime World Latin Dance champion Slavik Kryklyvyy as he tries to recapture his former glory. Overwrought but never overdone, “Ballroom Dancer” follows onetime World Latin ...

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MANILA, Philippines — World-champion international Latin dancer, Slavik Kryklyvyy, reunites with his fellow multi-awarded dance partner, Karina Smirnoff, in a one-night only show on March 28 at the ...

“Ballroom Dancer” begins with black-and-white footage of dancer Slavik Kryklyvyy in 2000, on top of the world and dominating the World Latin Dance Championships. Kryklyvyy is lithe and seductive at ...

This is Strictly Ballroom meets Black Swan, a film about a driven, spectacularly talented man for whom Latin dancing is a scarily obsessive vocation, a man who would give up almost anything, including ...

In an excerpt from this week's Guardian Film Show, Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes review Ballroom Dancing, the documentary about Vyacheslav 'Slavik' Kryklyvyy, the former world Latin ...

It could almost equally well be about Andy Murray or Luciano Pavarotti or Bradley Wiggins in its insistence upon uncompromising work and self-perfection, but because this is about the razzle-dazzle ...

Synopsis: Slavik, former world champion in Latin American dancing is making a last and final comeback with Anna, his ten years younger new dance partner and girlfriend. Failure is not an option, yet ...

In 2000, Slavik Kryklyvyy became the World Latin Dance Champion with his partner and lover Joanna Leunis. Enduring success seemed assured, but instead Slavik's career sputtered while Leunis went on to ...

This is dance documentary as psychological thriller, as former World Latin champion Vyacheslav ‘Slavik’ Kryklyvyy attempts to recapture former glories by moulding new partner (and lover) Anna ...

Ballroom Dancer begins as a comeback doc, but becomes something else. A decade after winning the Latin ballroom World Championship, Russian dancer Slavik Kryklyvyy returns to the competition circuit ...