DanceSport - Stay United {with Giacomo Steccaglia}

During these difficult times, Igor Golovach & Alessandro
Scalora decided to take the time to unite people from all over
the world of the beauty DanceSport industry. Instructors,
choreographers, and dancers alike joined us to share their
thoughts on staying strong and positive during this worldwide
epidemic, sharing their advice on fighting on and not losing
hope, sending their messages of support and aspiration. Thus, the
project of "Stay United" was formed.  This video features
Giacomo Steccaglia! Giacomo is a former 4-time Italian
Professional Latin Champion as well as a finalist of the
Professional Latin European and World Championships with partner
and wife Melissa Dexter. Now the DanceSport VP of USA Dance (the
United States member of WDSF), Giacomo also owns his own dance
studio located in Carlsbad, CA - Dancessense Studios. Giacomo
Steccaglia was raised in the small Northern Italian town of
Arcola, which was calculated to have a population of about 100.
The young boy excelled at sports including soccer, track &
field, and swimming. At age 14, however, he chose to pursue
dancing. Three months later, Giacomo won the first of his 5
National Amateur Championships and went on to represent Italy at
both the European and World Championships. As a young competitor,
Giacomo was the Italian Junior Latin and Ballroom Champion, the
Italian Youth Latin and Ballroom Champion, and the Italian Open
Amateur Latin Champion. Attending the Blackpool Dance Festival,
Giacomo was “mesmerized by a gorgeous girl in white from America,
wishing with all his heart to dance with somebody like her." That
beautiful talent was the one and only Melissa Dexter. After
marrying Melissa, Giacomo turned Professional, and together, the
newlywed couple won four Italian Professional Championships,
became the Italian Showdance Latin Champions, the 2-time Vice
South American Showdance Champions, as well as Imperial, All
England, and Universal Champions.  Giacomo and Melissa also
placed second in the "World Professional Masters Championship"
and were finalists in the European and World Latin American Dance
Championships.