Hans Laxholm

Hans Laxholm is a Danish ballroom dancer, coach, author, and adjudicator whose career has spanned competition, elite instruction, and international governance. Competing with Anne Laxholm, he is listed as the 1980 British Open amateur ballroom champion and the 1985 European Standard champion. After competition, Laxholm became known for a distinctive teaching method centered on body-training exercises. In a 2010 interview, dancers Emanuel Valeri and Tania Kehlet identified him as their Danish coach and credited his specific exercises with influencing other leading dancers and coaches, including William Pino, Alessandra Bucciarelli, Luca Baricchi, and Loraine Barry. Laxholm also worked extensively as an adjudicator at major competitions. He served on the panel for the 1994 International Ballroom Dancing Championships at the Royal Albert Hall and later adjudicated events across Moscow, Copenhagen, Steenwijk, and other venues, including European Championships in both Standard and Professional Division categories. The World DanceSport Federation issued him a General Adjudicator license in 2012 covering Standard, Latin, Ten Dance, and their professional equivalents. Recent listings show his continued participation in the dance community: Nordic Ball's 2026 competition in Aarhus includes him among its international adjudicators. Across competition, coaching, and institutional adjudication, Laxholm represents how Danish ballroom knowledge circulated internationally through students and judging panels.