Vadim Garbuzov
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| Born |
8 May 1987 (age 29) Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Occupation | Dancer |
| Website | http://vadimgarbuzov.com |
Vadim Garbuzov is a Canadian and Austrian ballroom dancer, showman and choreographer of Ukrainian descent. He was the ten-dance world semi-finalist 2006 in amateurs, the winner of the Austrian TV program Dancing Stars in 2012 and 2014, and professional world champion in Latin and Standard show dance 2015-2017.
Vadim Garbuzov was born on 8 May 1987 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 1994 his parents immigrated to Canada, and took him to dance school in Vancouver at the age of seven. For the next several years, frequently travelling between Kharkiv and Vancouver, he attended secondary school and dance training in both cities.
In 2003 Garbuzov and his partner Nadiya Dyatlova won the Canadian Youth Championships in Latin, and in 2004 in Standard.
In the same year he started to dance with a new partner, Kathrin Menzinger. In 2005, he made it into the finals of the World Youth Ten-Dance Cup in Antwerp. In 2006, after switching to the adult category, he became Austrian ten-dance champion and reached the semi-finals in world ten-dance championship in Moscow.
In 2007, Garbuzov was granted Austrian citizenship in addition to Canadian. In 2008 he graduated from the Faculty of Dance of Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture.
In 2009, he again paired up with Kathrin Menzinger, and in 2010 they made it into the final of European Ten-Dance Cup in Minsk.
In 2011 Garbuzov started the television line of his career as a professional dancer in the sixth season of Dancing Stars with TV presenter . First in the world he danced with another man in this Dancing with the Stars TV format. In the same year with his competition partner Kathrin Menzinger, Garbuzov starred in the ORF eins program , which brought him an entry in the International Movie Database (IMDb) as a show dancer. In 2012, with the singer Petra Frey, Garbuzov won the seventh season of Dancing Stars.
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