Mark Wheeler

Professor of Dance

Undergraduate Major and Minor Advisor
Director, UGA Ballroom Performance Group
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
E-mail: mwheeler@uga.edu

Mark Wheeler holds master's degrees in dance and in literature from Indiana University and the Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. His training in ballroom has centered at Brigham Young University. Outside the academic setting Wheeler studied modern dance at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center; jazz with Phil Black, Gus Giordano and Luigi in Chicago and New York; and tap with Michael Fredrics and Henry LeTang in Chicago and Las Vegas. He has acted, sung, and danced with Equity theatre companies in and out of New York.

At UGA since 1981, Wheeler founded the UGA Ballroom Performance Group in 1991. He has published widely on dance history and on current trends in dance education, and pieces which he has choreographed at UGA have been performed by university dance companies in California, Kentucky, New York, and Texas. Wheeler teaches dance history, rhythmic analysis, methods for teaching social dance, and ballroom, jazz and tap technique. He has guest taught in numerous dance programs including those at Columbia University, Vassar College, and the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil.