Dave Arns has been a member of Good Times Dance club since 2006. He began his journey into dance at an early age. While changing classes in high school he would walk down the halls trying to figure out precise rhythm tap steps. That surely was an early indication of his path in life!

He began tap dancing in the mid-nineties and in 1998 he was part of a performance group doing choreographed dancing when he was exposed to the “lead/follow” (partner/ballroom-type) dancing and was intrigued wanting to learn more, so he signed up for lessons in November and by May of the next year, began teaching. He first taught “The Lindy” then Salsa, Cha-cha and on it went from there.

He is a full-time dancing instructor with a studio in his home. “Dave Arns, The Dancer Guy” teaches at many other venues including Friends Of Traditional Dance. In 2006 he was teaching dancing at the Loveland Chilson Center where he met Mel & Sally Engleman who invited him to the Good Times Dance Club, and he’s been a member ever since.

He still dances at other venues, though not as much as he used to, he says, when he was often dancing at four different places per week — with three dances on Friday evenings! 

One memorable dance moment happened at a dance at City Park Center in Fort Collins sponsored by the Jump & Jive Cats. He was dancing with a small/petite lady and at the end of the song he was distracted momentarily and when he looked back at his partner, she was flying straight at him. He caught her, and “dipped” her as the song ended. Another time he was dipping his partner at the end of the song, it was a “lead, not follow-driven dip,” upside-down, foot pointing to the ceiling, and no hands. But the song didn’t end – it kept going and going. With his partner in that position, blood rushing to her head, it seemed a long time before the song actually ended. As he up-righted her and they were preparing to leave the floor, a gentleman strode up to him and said, “Now THAT was a dip!”

When not dancing or teaching dance, he writes, mixes and records music. He also writes books. Additionally, he is continually formulating ideas and writes recreational programs on the computer to help him with his books and music because “computers are faster!”

Glad you are a part of our GTDC family Dave!