Darrell Dieringer

DARRELL DIERINGER began dancing in his first year at UW Madison, actively participating in, and eventually helping to direct, the social ballroom dance organization at the University. As a way to introduce more people to the excitement and satisfaction of ballroom dancing (and to counterbalance the sedentary work proscribed by his degree in computer science), he began teaching people to dance.

His unique approach to teaching borrows from other movement disciplines, emphasizing not the reproduction of steps, but the fluid, comfortable and expressive production of movement based on an individual dancer's own strengths. Now, fourteen years after attending his first dance and five years after opening his own dance school, he is still an avid social dancer. He especially enjoys meeting people who are just beginning their adventure into ballroom dancing. He currently trains and competes in American style rhythm with his professional dance partner Sarah Calhoun.