Vadim Garbuzov

Vadim Garbuzov
Born 8 May 1987 (1987-05-08) (age 29)
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Occupation Dancer
Website http://vadimgarbuzov.com

Vadim Garbuzov — Canadian and Austrian ballroom dancer, showman and choreographer of Ukrainian descent. Vadim bears titles of ten-dance world semi-finalist 2006 in amateurs, winner of Austrian Dancing Stars 2012 and 2014, professional world champion in Latin and Standard show dance 2015 and 2016.

Biography

Vadim Garbuzov was born on 8 May 1987 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 1994 his parents immigrated to Canada, and took him to dance school in Vancouver at the age of seven. For the next several years, frequently travelling between Kharkiv and Vancouver, he attended secondary school and dance training in both cities.

In 2003 Vadim and his partner Nadiya Dyatlova won the Canadian Youth Championships in Latin,[1] and in 2004 - in Standard.[2]

In the same year he started to dance with the new partner Kathrin Menzinger, in 2005, he made it into the finals of World Youth Ten-Dance Cup in Antwerp.[3] In 2006, after switching to the adult category, he became Austrian ten-dance champion [4] and reached semi-finals in world ten-dance championship in Moscow.[5] In 2007, Vadim was granted Austrian citizenship in addition to the Canadian, and in 2008 he graduated from the Faculty of Dance of Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture. In 2009, he again paired up with Kathrin Menzinger, and in 2010 they made it into the final of European Ten-Dance Cup in Minsk.[6]

In 2011 Vadim started TV line of his career as a pro dancer in sixth season of Austrian Dancing Stars with TV presenter Alfons Haider. First in the world he danced with another man in this Dancing with the stars TV format. In the same year with his competitional partner Kathrin Menzinger Vadim starred in the ORF eins program Starnacht am Wörthersee which brought him an entry in the International Movie Database IMDb as a show dancer. In 2012, with the singer Petra Frey, Vadim won the seventh season of Austrian Dancing Stars TV show.

Starting 2012, Vadim and Kathrin regularly take part in the world championships of show dance category. In September 2012, in Beijing, they became finalists of World Latin Freestyle Championship.[7] In early 2013, Vadim and Kathrin turned professionals of World DanceSport Federation and at their first professional competition in Merano they took fourth place in Freestyle Latin World Cup.[8] In 2014 in Vienna, they came second in Standard at the Professional European Show Dance Championship.[9] The second TV victory came to Vadim in the ninth season of Dancing Stars, 2014, when he was coupled with Austrian actress Roxanne Rapp. In the same year Vadim took part in the "New Years Concert" of the Viennese Philharmonic Orchestra, performing together with his dance partner Kathrin Menzinger the famous Blue Danube Waltz live at the Wiener Musikverein to a worldwide audience of more than 50 million TV-spectators.

In October 2014 Vadim and Kathrin came second in the World Professional Freestyle Championship in Latin.[10] In November 2014, they became European Latin show dance champions in Dresden,[11] and in December they took second place out of 13 couples at thin show dance Standard at Professional World Championships in Salou.[12]

In June 2015 Vadim and Kathrin became world champions in professional show dance Latin [13] and in November of the same year - world champions in professional show dance Standard.[14]

In 2015 Vadim took part in the show eiths season of Let's Dance show, on German RTL Television, paired with the German actress Beatrice Richter. In 2016 he did the show ninth season of this program, paired with the German actresses Franziska Traub and Sonja Kirchberger.

In March 2016 Vadim and Kathrin won the European Professional Showdance Championship in Standard[15] and in September of the same year, they won the WDSF PD European Championship Show Dance Latin.[16]

Achievements

References

  1. ↑ Results of Canadian Closed Championships 2003 in Vancouver, Youth Latin category
  2. ↑ Results of Canadian Closed Championships 2004 in Montreal, Youth Standard category
  3. ↑ Results of World Youth Ten Dance Championship 2005 in Antwerp
  4. ↑ Results of Austrian National Championship 2006 in Innsbruck, amateur ten-dance category
  5. ↑ Results of World Ten-Dance Championships 2006 in Moscow
  6. ↑ Results of European Ten-Dance Cup 2010 in Minsk
  7. ↑ Results of World Amateur Freestyle Championships, 2012 in Beijing, Latin category
  8. ↑ Results of Professional Freestyle World Cup 2013 in Merano, Latin American category
  9. ↑ Results of Professional European Show Dance Championship 2014 in Vienna, Standard category
  10. ↑ Results of World Professional Freestyle Championship 2014 in Ostrava, Latin category
  11. ↑ WDSF news report on European Professional Championship 2014 in Dresden
  12. ↑ Results of Spanish Open 2014, WDSF PD World Showdance Standard Champs in Salou
  13. ↑ First place in the World Championship in Latin American professional show in Vienna
  14. ↑ Austrian Open, November 2015 in Vienna. Results of WDSF PD Word Championship Show Dance Standard
  15. ↑ Results of WDSF PD European Showdance Standard Championship 2016 in Vienna
  16. ↑ Results of WDSF PD European Championship Show Dance Latin 2016, in Romania
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