The jury
An expert jury of IDSF international judges from non-participating countries shall act as a jury in the show. After each performance, each jury member shall award each performance with 1 to 12 points. The jury members are:
After all couples have performed, and before the televoting starts, the totals given by the jury will be 'translated' into Eurovision-style points, whereas the highest ranked couple will receive the jury's 12 points, then 10 points, then 8 points and then all the way down to 1 point.
Finally, the jury points will be multiplied by four, giving the jury vote the weight of 4 countries' votes in the total result. As soon as the jury votes have been given, it is up to you to pick up your phone and/or send an SMS for your favorite couple(s) and give your say on who you believe should win the second Eurovision Dance Contest!
Gladys Tay (Singapore)
Gladys Tay is a well-known Singapore dance celebrity. Gladys has won over twenty International Ballroom Dancing/DanceSport Championships titles, including two from England.
She is an international dance adjudicator, coach and choreographer. She has adjudicated at many IDSF DanceSport Championships, including the World Latin Championships, World Standard Championships, World Cup Championships, World Youth Championships, IDSF Glam Slam events and Glam Slam Finals. She is also popular with the local media, appearing on television as judge for the local dance show The Dance Floor.
In 2007, Gladys was awarded the prestigious Coach Recognition Award by the Singapore Sports Council. She is currently the National Coach for the Singapore DanceSport Team and is also a much sought-after choreographer for dance shows and performances. She was the dance consultant, instructor and choreographer behind the movie Dance of the Dragon.
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Barbara Nagode Ambroz (Slovenia)
Barbara was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. After finishing grammar school, she studied pedagogy and Romanic languages at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In her youth she also finished eight years of Music school, playing the piano.
She and her dance partner Slobodan Buric became Slovene Amateur Latin champions in 1982. In 1985 she finished her education as a dance teacher, trainer and adjudicator within the Sports Faculty in Ljubljana. She was the head of the Slovene National Latin Team for several years and is still involved in lecturing and preparing National Team Trainings. Besides coaching she is also an active lecturer and adjudicator.
Over the last few years IDSF have nominated her to prepare lectures for Adjudicator's congresses in different countries around the world. As a guest teacher she works with National Teams in several European countries, Canada, USA and Asia. As an adjudicator she has 23 years of experience and was nominated to judge European and World Championships in Standard and Latin in Amateur and Professional division, Grand Slams and other major competitions. As a teacher and lecturer she specializes in dance technique, dance education, holistic approaches to dance training, characterization, music-movement relationships and partnering. Her special interest is in studying and research of Latin-American music/rhythms and authentic dance forms. For that purpose she has been visiting Latin America a lot.
Barbara is a co-establisher and co-owner of URSKA Dance Centre for 21 years, with a major studio in Ljubljana and several schools around the country, educating app. 9000 students per year. Their current aim is to establish an International Dance Academy for all dance forms, including Latin and Standard.
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Michelle Ribas (France)
Michelle Ribas is a French dancer and dance coach. She was the French Amateur champion from 1976 to 1977 in the latin category, and semi-finalist in the Amateur European latin Cup in Denmark 1978.
In 1982 she earned her Diploma in Latin from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD), and in 1983 she received a Diploma in Ballroom from the Imperial society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD).
With her husband Patrick, she has focused on teaching dancesport to children, working regularly with excellent English teachers. It was a hard work, but great success. They have developed Dancesport in their region, which is now one of the most important in France. Several of their pupils are now professionals, and are very much involved in Dancesport.
Michelle is also an IDSF International Judge and judges lots of IDSF competitions, including pretigious contests such as the World latin and ballroom senior championship, the World youth ballroom championship, the World junior II ballroom championship, the European latin cup and the European latin championship. In addition she is an IDSF chairman.
Michelle has been a member of the National Dancesport Committee (CNDS) since 2000. She has been a member of the Technical Commission of the CNDS since 1992 and since 2005 has been chairman of this commission. She has been a member of the judging commission since 2000 and is chairman of the Professional organisation LNPDS-IPDSC.
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Sven Traut (Germany)
Sven was born in 1967 in Erfurt. He is married, with one child. Since 1982 he has been active in Dance Sport. In 1989 with his partner Sybill Daute he became the German Democratic Republic Latin Champion, and the pair were Runners Up in Standard, and between 1992 and 1997 the couple were finalists in the German Championships.
Between 1993 and 1995 Sven was the World Cup Ten Dance Champion, and the German Ten Dance Champion. From 1993 - 1998 he won various other titles.
Sven retired from Active DanceSport in 1998. He is a Dance Teacher in ADTV, and a trainer. He is also an IDSF adjudicator, a regional trainer TNW and the Head Coach in Thüringen. He is a speaker at National Dance Congresses, and was a speaker at the adjudicator's congress in Bad Harzburg in 2006.
Sven has been the Head Coach Standard of the German Federation (DTV) since 2007.
