Buddy Schwimmer
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Buddy Schwimmer is an award-winning West Coast Swing dancer. He has also been known as "The King of Swing", and "The Man with a Thousand Moves". He was a performer on the 1977 television variety show Dance Fever with Lynn Vogen, as well as the 1992 show "Big Band Ballroom Bash".
Schwimmer has founded his own swing competition, organizes the World Swing Championships in Las Vegas, and works as a dance teacher and coach. He had a dance studio in Costa Mesa for 22 years, and worked out of Moreno Valley for 10 years, teaching on the road. In the mid 1990s, he opened the "5-6-7-8 Dance Studio" in Redlands, California, though the studio suffered a fire on July 31, 2006 while Schwimmer was in Los Angeles watching his son compete on the program "So You Think You Can Dance." The studio, which holds both private lessons and classes with 5-25 students, is partially re-opened, and scheduled to resume full operations in Fall 2006. Schwimmer runs the studio with his wife Laurie.[1]
Schwimmer's son, Benji Schwimmer (sometimes called the "Prince of Swing", after his father) as of 2006 is the reigning United States Champion of West Coast Swing, and the winner on the 2006 televised competition "So You Think You Can Dance"
Buddy also has a daughter named Lacey
[edit] References
- Instructor profile
- "So You Think You Can Dance" interviews, 2006
- 1976 photo
- "5-6-7-8 reopens, Benji considers offers", September 7, 2006, Redlandsdailyfacts.com
- San Bernardino Sun, September 15, 2006
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