There’s a reason why only a few dance studios last over 30 years.

Phill Lowers began his dancing and teaching career in 1967 after returning from a tour of duty in Viet Nam. He successfully trained and graduated from a teacher training program with the Arthur Murray organization.

Continuing his training and working with the Murray Organization for 10 years he learned the business from the ground up through teaching, director of dance, staff training, supervising and managing winning many awards as Top Teacher, Top Supervisor, Top Manager and Best Studio for the organization. During this time he also competed in local and national dance competitions with students and with a professional partner winning many First Place Awards. He and his amateur partner held the title of 10 Dance Champion for two years in the Pro-Am Division.

Going as far as he could go with Murray’s he headed for California to open his own school. He worked for a short time in a small independent school and within a year in 1978 opened Phill’s School of Dance in the city of Garden Grove, which eventually became Phill’s Ballroom Dance Studio in the city of Orange and has been in Orange to the present making it the longest operating independent dance studio in Orange County.

After opening his studio he continued with competitions as well as teaching but realized his passion was not in competition, but in teaching people to be able to go out to a club or a wedding and feel comfortable getting up on the dance floor. Putting his energy into teaching Phill has taught many satisfied students for over 30 years in Orange County. His studio was the first to offer, “first dance” wedding dance lessons.

Phill has been successful not only teaching adults and senior citizens, but also has many happy teens and pre-teens. The studio is a private lesson dance studio offering one on one lessons so each individual student can progress at his level. There is however, one free group lesson available weekly in each dance level to complement the private lesson His studio has a 2300 square foot raised “wood’ floor, with a state of the art sound system, very cool AC for your dancing pleasure, skylights and a beautiful reception area for relaxing before or after your lesson.