"Ballroom Rules" now available for viewing outside of Australia

Ballroom Rules, a documentary about same-sex dancers preparing for Gay Games VIII, premiered on Australian TV earlier this week.

The broadcast was a great success, and now viewers outside Australia can view the film online.


Artscape - Ballroom Rules A group of Australian gay and lesbian ballroom dancers battle homophobia, injury and personal dramas to compete in the world's biggest same-sex dancesport competition.

Ballroom dancing is the ultimate traditional sport. With a reputation for being overtly heterosexual and inflexible rules that specifically bar same-sex couples from competitions, it should be the last sport on earth in which gay men and lesbians would participate. But at a small studio in Melbourne a passionate group of same sex ballroom dancers is defying the rules.

Anny Salerni is the owner of Melbourne's only gay and lesbian ballroom dancing studio, and is the driving force behind the art of same-sex ballroom dancing in Australia. Anny has been threatened in the past by the governing body for ballroom dancing in Australia but she is determined to provide a safe space for her students to dance.

Banned from the mainstream, Anny and her students have limited opportunity to compete. So they must look overseas to find bigger competitions in order to improve. The world's biggest same sex dancesport competition is about to be held at the Gay Games in Cologne, Germany. Anny and her students make the decision to travel half way around the world to take on the world's best same sex dancers.