Dance Instructors

		Rick Dominguez (Los Angeles) has been has been a country-western DJ for more than 16 years. He has taught and choreographed line dances for the past 13 years in the Los Angeles area, merging pop and country styles into a unique style of dance. Rick is also the founder and lead choreographer for the award-winning line dance troupe, The LA Wranglers, now in their fifth year at the Sundance Stompede.
		Jim Drew (Seattle) has been dancing country-western for over fifteen years and teaching for nearly ten. He currently teaches and DJs for Rain Country dance events and dances with the Rain City Rhythm Riders dance team. During the 1990s, he lived in the Bay Area and performed with the San Jose Spurs and the San Francisco Saddletramps. Look him up online at dancetravelguide.com.
		Matt Ellinger (San Francisco) has been performing with the award-winning Barbary Coast Cloggers since 1991 and has served as the Artistic Director since 1999. He finds great joy in clogging, and now teaches the dance form throughout California. Matt Ellinger is a teacher-educator and researcher with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching at Stanford University.
		Lee Fox (Ft. Lauderdale), IAGLCWDC Director of Dance, has been teaching country-western dance for 17 years. He was a finalist in ballroom at the 1998 and 2002 Gay Games and IAGLCWDC’s first champion in 1998. He is a member of Southern Country South Florida and has served as choreographer for the Southern Country South Florida Dream Team and the SunDancers, and is a founding member of the 2005 IAGLCWDC champion team, Crossfire.
		Dave Hayes (San Francisco) started dancing in Orlando, Florida in 1993. He was a board member and performer with Southern Country Orlando. He moved to Dallas in 1999, where he was a founder of the Texas Twisters and member of Team Twister. Dave moved to San Francisco in 2002 where he serves as a volunteer manager and line dance instructor at Sundance Saloon. Dave is also the Webmaster for the IAGLCWDC.
		Andrew Johnson (San Francisco) started teaching line dancing in1997 with the Capital Country Kickers dance club in Albany, New York. He currently lives in Oakland and teaches line dancing at Sundance Saloon. He is also active in the Leather Community and holds the title of Pacific West Mr. Bootblack 2004. If you find him staring at your feet when you’re not line dancing, he’s probably admiring your boots.
		Troy Inman (Atlanta) has performed with the Ball State Dance Theatre, Banevolks International Folk Dance, Dance Force, DanceFx, and Contact Dance Theatre. Recent choreography/performance projects include the Georgia Shakespeare Festival, International Fitness Supershow, the UNICEF Party, Legendary Ball, Spoleto Festival, Ballroom Magic, and Androgyny. He teaches ballroom at Dancespace and country-western at Hoedowns.
		James Leyva (Dallas) has been dancing for 35 years., starting in high school with Ballroom, Ballet, Disco, Country and Western, then back to Ballroom, and finally to the love of his life: Swing –specifically West Coast Swing. He’s looking forward to coming back to San Francisco and sharing his love of “the dance,” and equally excited about having the opportunity to teach the coolest line dance.
		Michael McGee (Minneapolis) started dancing in 1989. A friend actually told him, “You may be one of those people that never quite gets it.” But since his first IAGLCWDC convention in 1993, you’d be hard pressed to keep him off the dance floor! Michael’s teaching career began with the debut of country dancing at The Town House Country Bar in St. Paul. People haven’t gotten tired of him yet, so he’s still doing it!
		Citabria Phillips (San Francisco) loves to dance. In 2000, she completed with honors the Bronze and Silver levels of Diane Jarmolow’s Teacher Training College. At the 2006 Gay Games she and her dance partner took the Bronze medal in the A-level Women’s Standard Ballroom. Currently Citabria and her dance partner are the 2007 US Women’s International Standard Ballroom Champions. For more info visit www.lightonyourfeet.com.
		Stina Rogal (Chicago) started country-western dancing at Charlie’s in Chicago 12 years ago and has been teaching “Virgins” to dance for the last 8 years. She loves the energy from people learning and loving to dance. She is a longtime member of US Figure Skating and has taught competitive figure skating for 31 years. She is very honored to be at the Stompede.
		Susanna Stein (New York) traces her country-western dancing roots to San Francisco’s Rawhide Bar in the mid-1980’s. After moving to New York City, she began competing in and teaching dance, and co-founded the Manhattan Prairie Dogs. In 1997, Susanna co-founded the Big Apple Ranch, New York City’s only weekly country-western dance club, which she still runs with Jon Lee.
		Mike Topal (Austin) started line dancing in 1992, but then he found dance partners who liked to be tossed in the air. He has been teaching since 1994, full-time since 1998. He has performed at the last eight US Open Swing Dance Championships, UCWDC Country, and everywhere else in the NASDE and WSDC swing circuits. He judges at most events, and is Event Director of MadMAC, a swing dance event in Madison, Wisconsin.
		Patrick Turnbull (Los Angeles) started training started while attending UCSD, then jazz and ballet classes in Los Angeles. Patrick caught the 2-step craze at his first gay Rodeo in 1990. Patrick and his partner Collie Valadez won the advanced dance division competition at the 1998 GSGRA Los Angeles rodeo. They are gregarious and approachable, and by all means please do not hesitate to ask them for a dance, or two.
		Collie Valadez (Los Angeles) is a native of Houston and has been dancing for most of his adolescent and adult life. A chorus boy, choreographer, musical theater and dance teacher, now plants-man par excellence, Collie tends to the gardens of the rich and famous in Los Angeles. He and his partner Patrick Turnbull taught at The Rawhide in North Hollywood from 1997 to 1999, and they currently teach at The Cobra in North Hollywood.