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Dimitri Petrides
Dimitri Petrides (August 1912 in Cyprus – 1985 in Blackpool) was a ballroom dancer who was instrumental in pioneering and developing Latin American dancing in England. He left Cyprus when he was eighteen with his mother after the death of his father, eventually settling in England. He was one of the founding members of the Latin-American Faculty of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, and wrote the first English text-book on the subject. He was a Fellow and Examiner of the ISTD.
Dimitri was also an adept linguist speaking Greek, English, French and Italian, so much so that, during World War II he worked as a translator on an prisoner of War Camp for Italian Prisoners of War. Later, after the war, Dimitri was in a jewellery shop buying awards for a competition, when he met Nina Hunt. She asked him to teach her to dance. They were later married, and had a son, Ian.
== Latin dance in England ==
The rhythms that make Latin American dance popular today were first brought to this country in the early 1930s. It was a Frenchman who introduced this style to the English dance scene. He had come to Britain as a young man, and was known professionally as ''Monsieur Pierre'', (Pierre Jean Phillipe Zurcher-Margolle, Toulon, France, circa 1890 – London, 1963). Pierre was already an accomplished dancer and teacher in the English ballroom style when the Peanut Vendor started the rumba craze in Europe and America in 1931. The rumba and the beguine were demonstrated in London in 1932 by the French champion couple M. & Mme Chapoul at an event organised by ''The Dancing Times''. Pierre was present and went to the ''Cabine Cubaine'' club in Paris to take a look at the dancers.〔Spencer, Frank and Peggy. 1968. ''Come dancing''. Allen, London. p137〕
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