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Buddy Schwimmer (born 1950) is an award-winning West Coast Swing dancer, a choreographer, and the inventor of the Nightclub Two Step. He has also been known as "The King of Swing", as well as "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. ==Biography== In 1965, at the age of 15, Schwimmer invented a new American partner dance, which he called "Nightclub Two Step". He developed this dance while practicing dance with his sister and searching for a way to dance to popular slow ballads. Schwimmer 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, Schwimmer opened the "5-6-7-8 Dance Studio" in Redlands, California. On July 31, 2006, Schwimmer's "5-6-7-8 Dance Studio" suffered a major fire while Schwimmer was in Los Angeles watching his son, Benji, compete on the program "So You Think You Can Dance". The studio, which holds both private lessons and classes with from 5 to 25 students, resumed full operations in September 2006.〔Garcia, Catherine (2006-09-07). 5-6-7-8 reopens, Benji considers offers. Redlands Daily Facts, September 7, 2006. Retrieved on 2009-09-29 from http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10976714.html.〕 In 2011, the studio 5-6-7-8 suffered another bout with mother nature and was forced to close. Buddy, being undaunted, found another building and built a bigger and better studio and reopened under a new name, "Schwimmer's The Dance Center" with over of dance floor and 3 rooms for classes, the largest being approximately . The New studio located at 1445 West Park Avenue, Redlands California 92373 held its Grand Opening in March to over 400 visitors dancing the night away to the music of (Jumpin' Jack Smith ) with special exhibitions by Benji Schwimmer, Torri Smith and Brennar Goree, Tom and Sossy Hyatt and many others. In 2012, Buddy purchased a campground in Arrowbear and plans to open a "non-profit" camp so that everyone can experience dance! His "Buddy Schwimmer's Resort to Dance" is currently undergoing renovations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buddy Schwimmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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