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Marc Anthony Thomas was born March 8th, 1975 in Columbus, Ohio. Marc comes from a family where the arts were always around him. Whether it was music, dance or visual arts, he got a bird's eye view of art in all it's beauty. His passion for the arts & creative spirit were further cultivated at his performance arts high school, Fort Hayes M.E.C. Marc joined the after-school street dance team while at Fort Hayes. Being a proud member of the street dance team led him to the world of urban dance: a form of dance used mainly with rhythm and blues or hip-hop music. Marc credits Mrs. Yolanda Connors, a dance teacher at Fort Hayes, for introducing him to the world of urban dance. Mrs. Connors even became one of his dance students 13 years after she was his dance teacher!!
His love for this rhythmic art form led him to extensively learn it and love it. Marc has been teaching urban dance for the last seven years. Marc has taught "Soul Line Dance" classes at Barnett Recreation Center for the last six years. He started off with 10 students and has expanded to over 125 students. He estimates that he has taught over 1500 people over the last six years. He thanks GOD for trully blessing him with the gift of rhythm and the gift of teaching.
For the last two years Marc has been teaching "Chicago Steppin'", a form of African-American ballroom dance. Marc wanted to get into Chicago Steppin after viewing R. Kelly's "Steppin' in the Name of Love" Video. He began to make up his own version of steppin until Tony Dow, of Dow Productions, based in Chicago came and put on a Stepper's Ball here in Columbus, Ohio. Tony hosted two workshops where Marc got to learn how to step. Every since that day Marc has been perfecting what he has been taught and has even added some Columbus, Ohio flair to his steppin style.
Marc plans to teach dance until he can't dance anymore.
He teaches in a way where anyone can learn, even if they have two left feet, or are "rhythm-challenged".
His teaching philosopy is very simple. "Everybody can count, so I always use numbers. I am not big on using fancy dance lingo. It only confuses people." Marc also prides himself on having fun and making sure the class is fun. "If it's not fun then why do it at all?"
