The Estonian couple taking ballroom dance to the world stage

There is a particular kind of ambition that does not announce itself loudly; in the case of Vitali Kozmin and Valeria Milova – husband and wife, parents of three, former competitive dancers and now producers of a new Estonian ballroom show – it appears instead as stamina: the refusal to leave behind an art form they had spent their lives learning. Their story did not begin with a grand business plan. It began with an ending. Both Kozmin and Milova finished their competitive ballroom careers at 21, stepping away from a world they had inhabited since childhood. “In Estonia, there are essentially two paths in competitive ballroom dance,” Milova says. Continue reading The Estonian couple taking ballroom dance to the world stage at Estonian World.