Graduates of MIT and Brown University respectively, Dan and Suzanne gave up their careers for the love of ballroom dancing. Since teaming up in 1979, they have amassed many titles, including North American Champions, United States Champions, Eastern U.S. Champions, United States Ten-Dance Champions, and New England Champions. They were chosen on four separate occasions to represent the United States at the World Championships, and have been invited to compete all over the world. They attribute their sucess to hard work and the continuous training they received from the fourteen former World Champions who were their coaches in Standard and Latin during the five years they were resident in England.For thirteen years, from 1983 to 1995, Dan and Suzanne appeared on Championship Ballroom Dancing as well as dozens of other television shows both here and abroad. In 1995 they were honored in a national television tribute to their many years of competitive dancing on the occasion of their retirement from professional competition. They have performed numerous exhibitions throughout the U.S., including at Boston's Symphony Hall, where they danced for the Boston Pops Orchestra. They are two-time recipients of the prestigious Feather Award for Best Professional Dancers in the United States, which they won in 1992 and 1994. Recently, they choreographed and appeared in the dance scene in the movie "Substitute 4." Dan and Suzanne are the recipients of over one hundred Top Studio and Top Teacher Awards, and Suzanne has won a Feather Award for Best Female Dance Teacher in the United States (1997). Their students include other professionals, several U.S. Pro-am champions, several United States Senior Champions, the North American Senior Champions, the #2 North American Amateur Champions, the Eastern U.S. Professional Rising Star Champions, the Eastern U.S. Amateur Champions, the New England Amateur Champions, the #2 ranked amateur couple in the U.S., and the #2 College Team in the U.S. Dan and Suzanne's professional accreditations include membership in the National Dance Teachers of America and the Professional Dancers Federation. They are Licentiates of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing in both the Ballroom and Latin American Branches. They are registered World Class Adjudicators (a small group of officials selected to judge World Championship events) with the National Dance Council of America, Inc.Dan and Suzanne teach ballroom dancing at their studios in Watertown and Southborough, Massachusetts. They offer a full range of ballroom dance activities, group classes, private lessons, and social dance parties open to the public. Dan and Suzanne are available for exhibitions, seminars and private functions. The Watertown studio is conveniently located on public transportation. From Harvard Square take bus #71. Other bus routes convenient to the studio are #52, #57, #70, #502 and #504.
For information, call 508-620-7138.