Dean started dancing while in college in 2000. His sister started a swing club in his hometown of Abbotsford, BC and insisted he try it out. It didn’t take long before he was going every sunday. After a few years, he started to teach east coast, lindy hop, musicality and spins/tricks workshops. Dean also started traveling to different cities to dance including LA, Denver, Portland, Seattle and Chicago. He specializes in smooth lindy, west coast swing and blues. Dean has been fortunate to get private instruction from Hasse & Marie (from Sweden) and to apprentice under Myles and Tessa (Canadian West Coast Champions) for a year and a half. In this time he has been developing his teaching as well as his dancing. Over the last couple years Dean has started teaching in Seattle as well as continuing to teach in Abbotsford as well as offering private lessons.
Dean on social dancing:
“I have always been a fan of the social dance floor. Of the competing I’ve done, I still don’t think it compares to being in the moment of spontaneity on the floor. The best moments in my dancing career are when it is just my partner and I. The music and everything else just disappears. It’s the energy that you find in that place that I want everyone to experience."
