European Latin Champions Amateurs 1959 Karl & Ursula Breuer

[AkihiroHattori52455]

Well, the costumes have definitely changed! I wanna see a competition where it was Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble, Tango.

[mkostya]

In 60-s we can already see than woman change their dress to very short (but still in ballroom style) and colorfull and the men still are in strict tail-coats (you can find this in YouTube). During 70-s and beginning of 80-s the men changed their coats also to (extremely) colorfull and tight-fitting. Towards end of 80-s the heaps movement start to appear and only at 90-s we can see dancing that is relative close to that we call today "Latino-American competitive dancing"

[mkostya]

It is interesting to see that professional latin dance style originated from ballrom (standard) and how it was changed with years. In the first latin competitions we see men and woman still dance with their ballroom costumes : men with tail-couts and woman with long dresses, just a bit shorter than original ballroom dresses.

[megan1668]

I used to watch "die Breuers" with my mom when I was little, and still haven't seen a better 'Quickstep' then Karl Breuer used to dance. He made that dance look so simple and effortless, it was amazing. One can't really tell how good they were on this video, but better than nothing.

By the way - it used to be soo much better watching the amateurs than the pros. Too bad they didn't perform one by one.

[bmwsitgez]

Wait until I've uploaded Benny Tolmeyer and Silvia Silve who danced in the same decade... You'll change your opinion about the quickstep.....

[mir4eto1]

god I love youtube :) amazing...can you just belive- after 50 more years we will look like this for the dancers...

[bartusss93]

fajne fajne xDD jeszcze czasy jak było PASO w tańcach standardowych xDD

[Miriaculous]

This is why I love YouTube.

[wickedJJcz]

awesome skirts :-)

[PoliticalGuy22]

haha this is too funny, they're not even moving, everyone is staying in the same space, I wonder what the Am looked like if these are the pros lol.

[dogcom]

Wow Dancesport history!

[Deedee512000]

Wonderful dresses, they really knew what was feminine!

[NikolasK88]

Its hard to believe that this is a world championship.. I mean i could do that too XD

[JendaPerl]

I do bet you could not.

[garrettgibbons]

WOW how latin has changed!!!

[dancepassion001]

What the fuck are they doing???:D its so funny. good to see how was the latin dance become...

[Caskader]

Wow, the skirts are crazy!

[soycomosoy1979]

so great to see!!!!!!!!