SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS was the title sponsor for the USA Dance 2011 National DanceSport Championships at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland on April 8–10, 2011. Celebrating its 31st Year, the USA Dance Nationals is the official national championships for DanceSport and the largest event of its kind in America.  Those who attended experienced a new dimension in design brilliance, with costumes encrusted with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS and worn by USA’s most exciting dance talents. SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS collaborated with four leading costume designers to create costumes and accessories to interpret the latest trends in ballroom fashion. An elite group of ten top-ranking pairs wore the custom-made designs that sparkled with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS throughout the championship event.

 
In keeping with the company’s principle of staying at the cutting edge of design, SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS created a new crystal, the enhanced 2058 XILION Flatback No Hotfix, which was used in these dazzling costumes. This new element has a unique patented cut, proven in light laboratory tests to be even more brilliant than its predecessors in the SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS assortment. It is a perfect crystal for a high-profile dance competition that gives enhanced glamour to the costumes, jewelry and accessories of the elite dancers.