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Mark Harris

   
                   
  Mark Harris enjoys working with beginners, as well as advanced students. He teaches all styles of dance, specializing in West Coast Swing. Mark is a U.S. Open Swing Dance Championships Award Winner, an Eight time State Swing Dance Champion, and was 1st in the Nation on the Masters Tour (Masters National Swing Dance Championships) for ten months during 2008!    
         

Mark has a vast background in dance. He was a Judging Coordinator for the Oklahoma/Kansas State Swing Dance Association, a former State Director of the NTA (National Teacher Association), and was a Co-Event Director of Dancin' Up A Storm For The Shrine Hospital For Children, and the Heartland Dance Festival & KC Swing Challenge. Mark was a featured dancer in the feature film, "Blog, The Movie."

   
         
  Mark was also the instructor for the Cow Town Swing Dance Club and the Topeka Swing Dance Club. He, and his partner, Glenda Evans, finished the 2008 Masters Tour in second place, missing 1st Place by one point, and were also 2nd in the Nation on the Masters Tour in 2007. Mark and his wife, Mary, won 3rd Place on the 2006 Masters Tour.     
                   
                       
 

Mark enjoys dancing with his students, at the social dances, in studio shows and in Pro/Am Competitions and Showcases. Many of Mark's students, and former students, have done very well in competition.

 

   
                       
  Recently, Linda Ashley won 1st Place Overall in Newcomer Gold at the 2008 Oklahoma Country Challenge, and is the 2008 Newcomer Gold National Champion in the ACDA. Mark & his students, helped Walters Dance Center win Top Studio (Out of State) at the 2008 Nebraska Invitational Ballroom Championships!

   
           

 

   
Mark travels to many dance events during the year, either working as part of the event staff by teaching workshops, judging, scoring, as MC or DJ, or competing on the Masters Tour. He teaches private lessons all week, and teaches the regular Tuesday & Saturday night group classes at Walters Dance Center, as well as Youth Ballroom Dance classes at several area schools. Check out this Kansas City Star article about those classes!  

   
       
Mark also enjoys helping couples prepare for their "First Dance". He can either teach you a few moves that fit "Your Song", or choreograph the whole song to give it that "Special Touch" that everyone remembers. The choice is yours! Mark will be glad to edit the music for you. You will find a note from one couple that Mark helped here!     
                   

To contact Mark about Workshops or Private Lessons, you can call him directly at: (816) 665-6275 or mark@waltersdancecenter.com

   

 

 

 

   

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