Arunas Bizokas

Arūnas Bižokas was born in Vilnius on 29 January 1978. His documented competitive history begins with his partnership with Lithuanian dancer Edita Daniūtė, which started in 1996 and lasted until 2007. Representing Lithuania in International Standard, the couple developed into one of the leading amateur Standard partnerships of the early 2000s, placing third at the 2003 World Standard Championship in Vienna, second in 2004 in Vilnius, and winning the Standard event at the 2005 World Games in Oberhausen. They also took second place at the 2005 European Championship and won the 2007 European Championship in Madrid, establishing a substantial amateur record before Bižokas's move to the professional circuit.

In October 2007, Bižokas formed a new partnership with Russian-born dancer Katusha Demidova. By most accounts, they won at the Ohio Star Ball after roughly one month together and placed second at the UK Open soon afterward. Bižokas and Demidova won their first WDC World Professional Ballroom Championship in September 2009, and the current championship register credits them with the title in every year from 2009 through 2018—ten consecutive championships. During this decade, they represented the United States and became a defining International Standard partnership, with documented first-place finishes at the 2013 Kiev ranking event, the 2014 World Professional Ballroom Championship and the 2018 Korea Open. Their competitive archive spans the five Standard dances—waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, slow foxtrot and quickstep—along with showdance and teaching appearances.

Bižokas and Demidova ended their competitive career at the 2019 Blackpool Dance Festival. Since retiring, Bižokas has continued to work in dance leadership and event production. The World Dance Organisation's board lists him as president, and its calendar identifies him as organiser of the WDO World Pro/Am Ballroom event at the Vilnius Dance Festival.