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Past sports article for the week of 9/16/07

XXIVth Annual World Professional Dance Championships

By, Puns McKenna

Dateline- Las Vegas

Artists are said to be temperamental, but when dancer’s egos collide it’s like a train wreck. You just can’t look away. And surprising enough, it was worth watching. The couple started out arguing in their native tongue of Maori. According to translators the insults were really flying, everything from professional criticisms to insulting the other’s mother. The golden-haired pair were soon locked together in some sort of physical battle, shortly after the fight began. Strangely this was so choreographed that it did not even seem violent. It wasn’t until the two’s mother came out of a room down the hall that it was revealed they were dancing.

By this time, spectators had gathered in the hall. Several of the competition’s judges were present, and could be heard exclaiming at the couple’s fluid grace. One judge was heard telling their mother that if they were this good in the competition that evening, they had a good chance of advancing to the finals the following evening. The woman was said to immediately turn to the siblings and began coaching them in proper arguments.

Later this evening as the dancing competition kicked off with the one-step competition, the couple was again seen arguing and laughing. It would seem they figured out that sibling rivalry brought more passion to their performance. As they hit the floor to twinkle their toes in the International Latin category, they had fire flashing from their eyes, and that certain pizzazz that brings life to the dance. They weren’t just competing with the other dancers; they were competing with each other. For one dance, they even manage to switch who was leading, mid-dance. The more verve and imagination they put into the dance, the more the audience cheered.

They won the competition category and were asked for an encore performance.