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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Largest
Waltz - world record set in Tuzla
TUZLA, Bosnia -- 1,521 couples danced for five
minutes, in the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla, during
an event organized by Zlatko Berbic, the owner of the
local radio station Kameleon
- setting the new world record for the Largest
Waltz.
Photo: Bosnian couples dance during the
world's
largest waltz in Freedom Square in the Bosnian town
of Tuzla, 75 kms northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia. AP photo//Amel
Emric (enlarge
photo)
“We had 1,521 couples dancing and I believe
we broke the world record for the
Largest Waltz,” Zlatko Berbic, the owner
of the local radio station Kameleon,
which organised the giant dance, told Balkan Insight.
The previous Guinness world record for the
the largest
waltz was set in 2009 in the British city of Bath
when 315 couples waltzed in one of the central squares.
Berbic said that the number of dance couples
was in fact much higher, but the central Freedom Square where
the “official” part of the event was organised had to be sealed
off in order for dancers to have enough space to move.
“All of Tuzla danced. I believe 25,000 people
danced in the streets,” Berbic said.
Tuzla, which already holds the world
record for simultaneous kissing, has been preparing
for the event for months.
All generations of residents, ranging from
primary school children to pensioners, have been taking dancing
lessons hoping that they will help their city waltz its way
into the record books.
The city authorities and public schools
have supported the organisers and the waltz has been included
in the school curriculum as part of physical education classes.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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