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How Tall is Massimo Giorgianni?
Posted by Jesse
6/25/2007  10:00:00 PM
I'm curious how tall is Massimo Giorgianni, I noticed that he and his partner aren't as tall as other standard dancers. I'm really just trying to find a world class standard dancer around 5'8", but I don't think Im going to find it.
Re: How Tall is Massimo Giorgianni?
Posted by Anonymous
6/26/2007  12:01:00 PM
I don't know how tall he is, but look at William Pino, Paolo Bosco, Benedetto Ferruggia. There are many fantastic Italian Standard dancers who are not tall.
Re: How Tall is Massimo Giorgianni?
Posted by LuvLatin.
6/26/2007  3:47:00 PM
Jesse. If you think all the best dancers are tall. Think again. Through the years there have been more smaller couples than tall winning the major competitions. This is the Standard style. Spoken by Michael Barr when comparing an IDSF final a couple of years ago. When you go to Latin i was amazed at how many very succesfull Latin dancers are not tall at all. Brian Watson and Carmen not included.
Re: How Tall is Massimo Giorgianni?
Posted by spitz
6/26/2007  9:23:00 PM
Well, you nailed it! Thats probably just about right. I would say 5'10" at the maximum. They are a shorter couple.
Re: How Tall is Massimo Giorgianni?
Posted by JillD
6/26/2007  12:08:00 PM
What's the matter? Are you concerned that you are short? Are you going to give up your dream if you cannot find 5'8" tall world finalists?
Re: How Tall is Massimo Giorgianni?
Posted by Rha
6/27/2007  1:58:00 AM
There is this myth that "tall" couples (over 1.8m) are somehow advantaged in Standard. A look at the statistics of the top-class professonals and my own experience I would say that the ideal height for the male is between 1.7m and 1.8m (at a max). Females should ideally be between 1.58m and 1.68m (without shoes).

Rha
Re: How Tall is Massimo Giorgianni?
Posted by Jesse
6/27/2007  7:52:00 PM
Well, I am a little concerned because I am short, but mainly I want to find a shorter standard dancer to model myself after, at least while I'm really just learning. Eventually I want to develop my own technique ( if I ever get that good).
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