He is a professional dance instructor, competitor, and judge. He has multiple titles at national competitions (including West Coast Swing, Country, Salsa, and Hustle). He is a Florida State West Coast Swing Dance Champion and retired All-Star J&J Competitor in WCS. He has also competed in Pro-Pro on the UCWDC Country Circuit with Raquel Reynolds. He has over 28+ years dancing and over 19+ years of experience teaching West Coast Swing, Ballroom, Country, Latin, Salsa, & Hustle. He had been the owner and head instructor for 14 years at Sultry Swing, the dance studio. He is now a freelance instructor. If you are interested in booking with him, text him at (561) 676-9989 for the quickest response.
John Harris' Dance Story
When I was 15, my Dad left my Mother. For about a year my Mom was a complete mess until she ran into a dance studio named “Dance Connection”. It was not a place filled with the prettiest or wealthiest of people, it was just filled with some of the nicest, caring people you ever will meet. I will tell you that the family my Mother created with the members of that studio saved her from her misery. They danced together, they would get together on holidays and celebrate together, they would even get together to help move each other, they were a dance family. Fast forward several years and I was turning 20. I was a shy kid with very little self-confidence when it came to meeting new people or having conversations with groups of people (some of that had to do with the awkwardness of going though high-school at 6’4″ and rail thin and part of it had to do with the fact that I’m half deaf). My Mother, looking for a second miracle, pushed me into going to “Dance Connection” (I was more than a bit unwilling, as I was told frequently by people that I lacked talent in dance) with the hope that I would be able to make some new friends. Over the next 6 months, I spent every single night dancing there, followed by a trip after class to a local country dance bar for social dancing afterwards. Not only did I meet some awesome individuals and find plenty of self-confidence I also became quite the dancer. I had found a dance family of my own. We would dance together, eat together, sometimes we’d go on vacations together, it was everything I needed, it was my miracle. Now fast forward 28 years, I have closed my dance studio of 14 years and now am an independent instructor. I hope I have been and will continue to be even close to as successful in creating an atmosphere that will allow each of you to find your dance family as Grant Austin’s Dance Connection down in Fort Lauderdale did for me and my Mom. With that in mind, I still run WPB's longest-running weekly Ballroom dance party! Where each of you can come to dance, make new friends, and become part of a community, part of our dance family.
