One of the TOP tournament events in Germany - "East". Top couples and top location. For the group photo we had a bad place, since late returning from the dressing room. But you can see the great scenery.
It was always very atmospheric to dance there. Also a photo showing the price presentation is now included .

Austrian Champions Standard. Title won first time and on the way up the IDSF (now WDSF) world ranking list. Best ranking 7th (world ranking 1992).

One of our Asia Tours.
Latin Final - it was very nice competition super week full of dancing - next destination - let's go!

Picture came together with an article in one of the most popular Austrian newspapers "Kurier".

Training camp location - Oststeirischer Hof. After a short search we found this very nice hotel. Appropriate training facilities - sports hall - gym was also available.Thus, the decision for this location had been positive.
Participants of many different clubs trained on this intensive training week. Reinforced was the coaching team with MICHAEL NOISTERNIGG (dance coach) specializing in Latin. Also a former student of Irene and Helmut Hanke. As always, all our training camps and training assignments were based on both disciplines. Which, because of our wide range of capabilities, was / is clear.

Söchau has been a training location several times for our dance training seminars. Years later, we could help colleagues, who were looking for locations for their club training camp, with our advice.

It had been a very busy time, as from the standard state championship final 4 couples worked intensively with us. Added to this was the responsibility for a considerable number of Latin couples and 10-dancers.

An intense and very interesting time. Not easy to reconcile all this with our foreign engagements. Austria and our dancers were always our priority!

Among many 1st places, the Viennese championship had been won by Irene and Helmut Hanke. This was accompanied by the fact that they also received the Kurt Mayer Memorial Cup. Mr. Kurt Mayer was a very involved and competent Austrian trainer.

Tournament photo: French Open - Paris. 3rd place Professional Standard. The year before, still as an amateur, 4th place out of 60 couples.The pro tournament went off with great performance. On site and a few days later, we received offers to teach in France. Displayed also some newspaper articles about dancing - decorated with our pictures. Again and again we were invited to photo shoots and our tournament or training photos had been used by newspapers, writing about dance(sport).

Together with Charlotte and Jens we danced many tournaments and spent a lot of time "off the dance floor". Both, in London and the common tournament destinations.

In the Semeley Ballroom: Irene Hanke with our dear friend LYDIA UNGARETTI.

At this dance and training studio we spent a lot of time. Lydia was also very often in Vienna for training the UTSK Casino Vienna - Latin couples.

UTSK Casino Wien provided between 6 and 9 couples in standard S-Class for a few years. The LatinS-class were assigned 2 couples. One of them, Irene and Helmut Hanke, were members of the national team Latin and 5 times vice-champion in the combination (apart from the standard national champion titles).

Today's name: Top squad in all disciplines.

Mitcham, Abbots Road, London.

Cozy get-together with Theresia and Gerald Schwanzer. Also former national team members (Austria) and members of UTSK Casino Vienna.

UTSK CASINO WIEN SHOWS 3 FINAL participating couples in THE STANDARD DISCIPLINE. This at a time when the starter fields were between 25 and 32 couples in S-Class. Combination tournaments - up to 32 couples entered.

Together, Gerald and Theresia founded the company "Choice of London". Material and dancewear.

Today, Gerald Schwanzer heads "DSI-London".

In the course of our photo spread you can see that AUSTRIAN DANCERS had been very innovative.

Dr. Anton Novak - The first "International Camp Event"

Gerald and Theresia Schwanzer: Dance clothes and material "Choice of London" and now "DSI".

Peter and Christina Dobner: CHRISANNE.

Our London training locations had been: Dance Studio (Dulwich), Dance Studio (Cheam), Semley Ballroom (Norbury).

Our dear friend LYDIA UNGARETTY (London).
Here together with Irene Hanke at a ball event in Vienna. Lydia was the soul of the "Semley Ballroom" in London (Norbury) and a trainer for Latin American dances.

Irene @London - with couples to a competition. Irene - judging.

Helmut also worked as an aerobics instructor. His classes "Latin Jazz" and "strengthening-modern" were well attended. He trained for 7 years in a large fitness club in the Viennese Millenium City. 1 day a week was also a welcome change from the "normal Standard and Latin American dancing". He was thus able to apply his interdisciplinary skills appropriately.

Since it is important for us to work on further development even in supervision, we train specifically in this sense. YES WE CAN - was and is one of our present, among other things, motto.