Dascha Wright began dancing by the time she could walk. At age 6 Dascha was the US national Pro-Am winner in the pre-teen category in Orlando, Florida. When she was 8, Dascha won top solo award for her age group at the Emerald Ball Championships in Los Angeles Ca. She was nominated for top solo routine at the Seattle Star Ball in 2010. – and later that same year was “Best student in Quest for the Best” Competition. As a participant in the 2011 US National Amateur DanceSport Championships at Brigham Young University in Provo Utah, Dascha placed third in the standard category and fifth in the latin category.
In 2011 & 2012 Dascha competed in the Blackpool England Junior Dance Festival. Those same years, she was a winner in the US National DanceSport Champion in Baltimore M.D. This year, 2014, she has continued to win many dance competitions in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Tampa Florida.
Her ballroom dance career has taken her not only to England but to Russia and Europe. She has appeared in the “Nutcracker” with the Emerald City Ballet, directed by former Bolshoi Ballerina Victoria Titova (2010).
Over the years she has used her talents in dancing, singing and acting to participate in community events supporting the local food bank and benefits for Children with Special Needs. In the hometown “Annual Christmas Spectacular” Dascha sang with the IMAGINE! Children’s Museum North Pole Singers (2010); played a part of the “Revised” Story of Scrooge (2012); worked with operatic baritone Victor Benedetti in a unique presentation of “Little Altar Boy.” (2012); and joined with ballroom dancer Alexey Gravilov to help present an original song “Its Gonna Be Alright” by Dehner Franks (2013). She speaks fluent Russian and has been taking a Russian Language program for the past 9 years.
Beginning in 2013 Dascha signed up for Seattle Talent that has helped sharpen her speaking and presentational abilities. Through the big Seattle Talent event in Los Angeles (IMTA) in 2014 she met Summer Watson and has since been taking voice lessons from Summer in Los Angeles via Skype. With the support of Summer Watson and her associates, Dascha helped create a new pop song, “Change the World” in connection with Sony Studios. The song grew out of Dascha’s experiences of helping teach some of the Dance Wellness Classes in the Everett School District.
Within the last 2 months preceding tonight’s show, Dascha and her new Ukrainan Partner, Danylo Yanchyshyn, placed 1st in LA, 1st in San Francisco, the finals of the US Ballroom championship dancing at the Ohio Star Ball in Columbus Ohio, within 2nd Place in a Ballroom event in Kiev, Ukraine, the upper 20% in the Paris Ballroom Competition, the 3rd largest Ballroom Competition in the World and finally, last weekend, 1st in the Las Vegas Ballroom Competition in Las Vegans, Nevada.
IMTA – International Models & Talent Association
- Acting (2nd Runner Up) – “Actor of the Year”
- Dance Category – 2nd
- Improvisation Category – 1st Runner Up
Performances
- Nutcracker, Emerald City Ballet (Victoria Titova)- 2010
- Annual Christmas Spectacular, IMAGINE – 2010
- Revised Story of Scrooge – 2012
- Little Alter Boy (with Victor Benedetti) – 2012
- Its Gonna Be Alright (by Dehner Franks) – 2013
- Children with Special Needs Programs – various years