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About Shawn
Your Online
Instructor: Shawn Trautman
Learn About The Dancer, Teacher, Author, Innovator,
and more...
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Shawn's
decades of dance instruction
experience and devotion to
helping others allows him to focus his
efforts and provide an outlet for everyday
people to dance. Best known for his easy
learning, no-nonsense dance lesson
videos and full-color dance
instruction book, Shawn continues to
empower people around the world and get them
excited about dancing.
 Whether wanting to learn
to dance to prepare for an event like
a prom or wedding, to connect with your
partner, to have fun on vacation, or just to
learn a new skill, Shawn's will inspire you to
reach your goals. Who is Shawn Trautman? Below
is a brief overview of your new instructor.
The Dancer
Long before Shawn
Trautman's success as a dance instructor, he
was known for his dancing. Early in his dance
career, Shawn was featured in countless
newspapers, on NBCs Wes Side Story, Jack Harris
Show, and TNN’s Club Dance as well as
many others. Shawn is considered by many to
have one of the best all-around
leads on the social dance
floor and is a favorite of many when it comes
to line dancing.
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The Teacher
Shawn Trautman is a
top-rated dance instructor who
understands just how difficult it can be for
folks to get started in dancing. Time, money,
confidence, body type, and ability are just
some of the factors that come into play. Shawn
addresses these factors and has a unique way of
communicating steps and methods in easy to
understand ways. His broad experience in both
dance and advanced learning techniques makes
his system of instruction easy and fun. Having
won numerous Top Teacher awards, Shawn has
honed his teaching skills to cater to the
specific needs of dancers regardless of their
skill or talent level. He can easily teach new
dance student the basics, and coach world
champion students on progressing with their
dance technique and advanced choreography.
Shawn has trained and educated countless
individuals, couples, and entire dance teams
since 1991 and has had many students move on to
world champion status. During the late
90’s through 2001, Shawn continued to
enjoy success with his students both through
private lessons and group classes while he
pursued his undergraduate and graduate business
management degrees as well as career in program
management.
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"Teaching dance is much more than showing
someone footprints of where to step or how to
spin as fast as possible. It's about
partnering, connection points, foot
positions, music, timing, leading, following,
etiquette, having fun and personalized
attention from the instructor - all at the
same time. My DVDs are the only ones that
bring all of these concepts together as if I
were standing right there with you. My goal
is to teach you everything you need to be
successful on the dance floor using fast,
easy, efficient, and fun methods that you
won't find anywhere else. Learn to dance with
any of my DVDs today and find out for
yourself."
- Shawn Trautman
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In 2002, he found he
had a vision for a new and very innovative way
to teach students worldwide how to dance.
Consequently, Shawn and his wife, Joanna, then
launched an acclaimed line of popular and
unique dance seminars called Dance Xpress and
XI Dance. Through the course of a one-day
seminar, Shawn and a team of instructors led
groups of 20-100 people through sports-based
curriculums and multi-media presentations. Even
the most skeptical students were dancing with
confidence by the end of the day. With the
launch of Shawn Trautman’s Dance
Collection in 2005, Shawn was able to take the
personal feel of his private and group
traditional dance lessons and combine it with
the advanced learning techniques and up-to-date
technology used in the XI Dance curriculum. His
collection takes the dance lessons out of the
studio and into every viewer’s living
room making it easy for anyone to learn to
dance.
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The Author
Shawn and Joanna
recently co-authored a unique dance instruction
book called Picture Yourself Dancing, which can
be found at Barnes & Noble, Borders, BJ's,
and other retailers. Picture Yourself Dancing
is a written from the perspective of the
dancers themselves, and offers an account of
their knowledge and understanding of dancing
with nearly two decades of experience. The book
provides easy-to-follow dance instructions for
anyone, although Picture Yourself Dancing was
written specifically for beginners with very
little or no dancing experience. Shawn and
Joanna assist the reader as they explore
advanced learning techniques and dance floor
basics while jumpstarting their
dancing.
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Picture Yourself Dancing
examines the world and etiquette of social
couples dancing and provides an in-depth look
to dance cultures to prepare you for the dance
floor in various dance communities including
Ballroom, Country, Latin, and Swing. In
addition, there’s also a section
dedicated to preparing to dance for weddings
that gives a very detailed look at the
necessary elements that every couple should
consider when getting married. Last, the book
was packaged and written in conjunction with
the Trautman’s original product for
beginner couples, Dance Lessons 101.
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The Innovator
Shawn has developed one
of the most original and successful dance
instruction methods for teaching new dancers.
Shawn Trautman's Dance Collection has taught
countless numbers of people how to dance in the
comfort of their own homes since early 2005 and
is now one of the best-selling dance lesson
collections worldwide. His dance lesson videos
make it easy to learn to dance with
brand-unique features such as the “what
you see is what you dance” format,
close-up shots of the feet and tips for leaders
and followers. Shawn does an excellent job of
clearly communicated instructions, and
split-screen technology helps you see the
instruction from several different
angles.
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Shawn is a
consultant, corporate trainer, choreographer,
and public speaker on many different forms of
lead-and-follow dance, as well
as line dancing. He continues
to constantly improve the quality of his
products and continues to produce instructional
DVDs, teaching both private and group classes,
and designing curricula. In addition to holding
an MBA in organizational leadership and
communication, Shawn has an extensive project
management and planning background with the
defense industry, the Federal Government, and
the commercial sector where Shawn is the
founder and CEO of Xpress Innovations, Inc.
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