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Name: Zydecoking
Location: H-Town TX US

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As Posted in the New York Times

"Dancer, instructor and choreographer, Willie "Zydeco King" Bushnell began his reign at the age of three in the historic Ville Platte region of Louisiana, winning Zydeco dance contests in night clubs, trail rides, festivals, and dance contests throughout the Gulf Coast Area. A native Creole and fluent speaker of Acadian French, Willie has spent his professional dance career sharing the gift of Zydeco dance and music with hundreds of other zydeco dancers and dance instructors, thus preserving a vital part of American music and culture.

In demand as a performer and instructor internationally since the 1990's. Bushnell has taught Zydeco dance from coast to coast in the U.S. as well as throughout the Caribbean.

Past winner of the highly recognized Original Southwestern Louisiana Plaisance Zydeco Festival Dance Championship, and two time Winner of Texas Zydeco Dance Championship, Bushnell has also served as choreographer and dance instructor at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and for the Victor Nunez film, Coastlines.

As an instructor he is patient, positive, and highly skilled at tailoring his lessons to the various learning styles of his students. His teaching details a broad range of movements enabling each dancer to create his or her own individual style and have fun while getting exercise.

Students learn basic hip movements, undulations, shimmies, isolations, traveling steps, advanced combinations, techniques, and choreographies. Willie's classes provide a supportive learning environment so that you can explore your creative potential and feel beautiful no matter your age or dance ability. His attentive and nurturing teaching style makes even the most difficult dance skills accessible for students of all levels, and makes having fun an equal priority to developing strong dance technique.

Willie also teaches students that are at professional level that have been, plan on, or are performers. The subjects vary and may include staging, projecting, message, layering, varying mood/s along with crowd control, structure, floor, critical work and more."