Instructors

Team Class Instructors

• Dan Calloway

Social Class Instructors

• Ballroom and Latin Dance
  • Katherine "KC" Kulwiec
  • Georgina Murata
  • David Niu
• Swing Dance
  • Georgina Murata

Past Instructors

• Charlene Brown
• Craig Bukowski
• Ian Chyun
• Kim Howell
• Laura Luppens
• Katherine Magalif
• Steve Thomas
• Meg Zellers

Team Class Instructors

Dan Calloway

Dan Calloway teaches the beginner and intermediate team classes.

Daniel Keith Calloway is a Dual Fellow of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD), and has been competing, coaching and adjudicating for over 26 years. He is an Asian-Pacific and United States Professional 10-Dance Grand Finalist, and has garnered several "Professional of the Year" awards, among many other professional awards and titles. He often serves as a judge or head of judges in many major competitions, including the International Dance Festival, the Manhattan Amateur Classic and the DC Dance Inferno. Along with Wendy Davies, he organizes a bi-annual collegiate competition in Baltimore, The Chesapeake Classic.

Apart from being extremely qualified, Dan is a friendly and experienced teacher. In his teaching, he emphasizes connection, frame, presentation, and floorplay. His sense of humor and easy-going approach to dance add to the quality of lessons. He often proffers such precise and astute insights, such as "You call that hip action?" He is well versed in all dances at all levels of the syllabus, excepting his tendency to perform a "whip throw-away" in Lindy Hop. He is particularly fond of such figures as the Knee Brush and the Robotic Bull. He is highly connected in the ballroom dance world, and in other circles as well; so much, in fact, that he is privileged to know the preferred beverage of Jackie Chan.

Social Class Instructors

Katherine (KC) Kulwiec

Katherine (KC) started dancing social ballroom in 7th grade with Nordquist Dance in Santa Rosa, California. During high school she helped to teach the same classes that she had taken in middle school, passing on her knowledge of American Style Waltz, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Night Club 2-Step, Cha Cha, Latin Hustle, Rhumba, Tango, and Foxtrot to hundreds of gawky preteens. When KC started dancing at Georgetown she joined the competitive team and was elected Newcomer Liaison for 2004-2005, Treasurer for 2005-2006, and will be Team Captain for 2006-2007.

Georgina Murata

Georgina began dancing almost as soon as she could walk, including jazz, African, and modern, and has even traveled to Russia to perform. It was only when she arrived at Georgetown that she re-discovered her love for the rhythms and musicality of the Latin dances, and she now takes advantage of every opportunity to teach anyone and everyone how to shake their booty and shimmy like Shakira. She has competed and won several awards with the Georgetown Ballroom Dance Team in all of the ballroom dances for the last three years, performed in several of the team's showcases, and also brought back an obsession with Argentine Tango and Salsa since her study abroad in Argentina last fall. She was the President of the Georgetown University Ballroom Dance Team for the 2004-2005 school year and was re-elected President for the 2006-2007 school year.

David Niu

David Niu is a wonderfully delightful man. He has been dancing ballroom for about 6 years and has competed in many competitions across the USA. Probably best known for his ultra-modern Polka (for which he placed first in a national competition), David dances all types of social and ballroom styles. David competed with a formation team in college, as well as individually. He is genuinely excited to be teaching the Latin and Ballroom social classes, and will do all in his power to make the class fun, educational, and a great way to meet people

Past Instructors

Charlene Brown

Charlene is a senior in the School of Foreign Service, and has been dancing with the Georgetown University Ballroom Dance Team since her freshman year. This is her first semester co-teaching the latin social class, although she assisted and supported the students in the past. After spending a year abroad in Paris (where her only ballroom-esque experiences involved social latin dancing), Charlene is excited to return to Georgetown this year to teach Social Latin Classes.

Craig Bukowski

Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Craig got his first exposure to ballroom dancing at a dance studio in Madison. He soon developed a passion for dancing and music which prompted him to begin his professional teaching career with Fred Astaire Studios in Seattle, Washington, where he was ultimately promoted to management. Craig holds an Associate's Degree with "The Imperial Society of Teacher's of Dance". Craig's love of teaching dance fulfills his passion for life. He loves to impart to his students his understanding and feeling for the art of movement to music. He teaches both American and International Styles of ballroom. His students enjoy his patient manner and his easy method of instruction. A seasoned competitive dancer, Craig has been successful at state, regional and national level. He always looks forward to presenting his students at competition. Craig has gained a reputation for being one of the area's outstanding and fun instructors.

Ian Chyun

Ian has co-taught the Swing section of the Social Dances for Georgetown Ballroom. A Washington native, he has danced all over the metropolitan area for many years. Swing (he prefers "Lindy" and "Jitterbug" nomenclature) has been his dance of choice for years, Hollywood-style Lindy in particular. He is happy to be dancing and teaching again after an extended absence from both while living and working internationally - mostly in Montreal, Québec where he recently finished his blessedly cheap undergraduate degree.

Kim Howell

Kim Howell was drawn to swing for its energy, and over the course of hundreds of hours on the dance floor, has come to treasure musicality, connection, and improvisation. She started swing dancing five years ago, after seeing the movie "Swing Kids," and immediately founded her own group of Swing Kids at her high school. Her first teaching experiences were at this club, and she has been teaching social lessons at Georgetown for 3 semesters. She has repeatedly attended Beantown Lindy Hop Summer Camp, and has participated in numerous local workshops. Particularly influential instructors include Steven Mitchell and Virginie, Sylvia Sykes, and Jeff Cayer. Her dancing has taken her from San Francisco, California, to Montpellier, France, but she enjoys dancing in DC most. She recently placed 1st in the Lindy Competition at the DC Dance Inferno, and in the Jack-and-Jill competition at the Catholic University of America.

Laura Luppens

Laura co-teaches the Ballroom social dance classes. A Denver native, she became actively involved with Georgetown Ballroom Dance her freshman year. She competes in collegiate ballroom competitions such as DCDI, Ohio Star Ball, Manhattan Amateur Classic, and Keystone Classic. Furthermore, in addition to teaching Ballroom social classes, she is the Vice President of Georgetown University Ballroom Dance Team for the 2004 - 2005 school year.

Katherine Magalif

Katherine has co-taught the ballroom and latin classes at Georgetown for several years. She first started ballroom dancing in junior high, as soon as the first ballroom dance studio opened in her area. She had always danced, whether it was Belarusian folk dancing, jazz at a local studio, or her own strange version of the lambada at four, but ballroom dancing always seemed especially attractive. Since then, she has competed and won numerous awards in both the pro-am and amateur divisions and danced in many showcases. She is particularly fond of latin dancing and also any kind of exciting moves such as dips, lifts, and drops. In fact, part of the reason that she chose Georgetown, is for its fabulously fun ballroom club. One of her favorite things to do is to introduce others to ballroom, which she tries to do on a daily basis. At the times she is not perfecting her Rumba technique or shaking it up at a local Salsa club, she enjoys learning new languages, reading novels in Parisian cafes, taking covert, illegal trips into dictatorial countries, and exporting contraband kittens.

Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas has co-taught the Social Ballroom and Latin classes at Georgetown since their resurrection in Spring 2003. An original member of the Georgetown Ballroom Dance Team (1996), Steve has been dancing for ten years, competing for six of them as an undergrad and grad student at Georgetown. He has placed first or second in numerous competitions as an advanced amateur ballroom dancer, and was a member of Georgetown's two World Cabaret Championship teams and its 2000 Ohio Star Ball Championship Team. He is also choreographing Georgetown's current Cabaret routine. He loves Latin and Ballroom dancing but is not a big Swing fan. In time off from dancing, Steve enjoys developing economies, watching Georgetown Basketball, and saving the world daily with his two supercats in tow.

Meg Zellers

Meg Zellers began swing dancing four years ago and despite having learned many ballroom dances since then, swing has remained her first love. Due to a severe shortage of leaders in her swing hometown (Detroit/Windsor), she learned how to lead almost as soon as she learned how to follow. She is widely known in her circle of non-dancing friends for her unceasing petitions that they learn how to dance. Within the ballroom arena she gets weirder, as she has been known to analyze dance moves in her sleep, making her able to do a move in the morning that she did not know how to do the night before. Despite experience dancing in many places, including Paris, France, she prefers the Washington, DC, scene for its friendliness and large numbers of leaders.