With Great Sadness, we must announce that Bruce Perrotta passed away on Saturday, October 12, 2024. He is greatly missed! Our deepest sympathy, thoughts and prayers are with Beth and their family.
Beth Perrotta continues teaching West Coast Swing Classes every Monday Night at Goldcoast Ballroom.
Beth and Bruce Perrotta were, and Beth continues to be, among South Florida’s foremost West Coast Swing instructors. Together, they were the owners/directors of “Florida Dance Magic,” an annual WSDC registered swing event on the 3rd week of July. They founded DanSynergy, Inc., and through their company have been a part of the foundation of WCS growth in Florida.
In 2003, Bruce and Beth began competing together nationally in WCS, and attained their GSDTA dance teachers certification in 2006 after training with Skippy Blair’s Golden State Dance Teachers Association. Together, they taught weekly private/group lessons at Goldcoast Ballroom in Coconut Creek and in Wellington Florida for approximately 20 years, and Beth continues teaching those classes and lessons at Goldcoast Ballroom.
Together, Bruce and Beth developed and sponsored monthly workshop weekends with national level instructors and hosted dance weekly and monthly dances to share with the community. Their goal together, now continued by Beth, has been to elevate the level of dance through strong fundamental instruction, and introduce new music and dance ideas from around the country.
Beth studied dance as a lifelong passion. Focusing on ballet and jazz, she performed in musicals throughout school and then professionally in musical productions with the “Pennington Players” theatre group in New Jersey. Beth eventually moved to Florida where she trained with ballroom professionals, bringing her to the dance scene in South Florida.
Bruce Perrotta played semi-pro football for over 20 years, but switched to dancing. In 2000, he was exposed to West Coast Swing and continued consumed with it until his death.
After a near fatal car accident in 2007 and in an effort to give back to the dance community that supported him, Beth and Bruce started the Perrotta-Midiri Foundation in 2008. They committed to personally fund the scholarship for 5 years. Annually they raised money and presented a $500.00 Florida Youth Swing Dance Scholarship to a Florida youth for achievement in West Coast Swing, good citizenship, and academic excellence at Miami Dance Magic.
Bruce and Beth won and placed in many Masters and skill leveled Jack n Jill’s and Strictly Swings both in Florida and nationally. They trained with top nationally known professionals and brought back the latest in style and technique to their growing student base.
Beth and Bruce worked as Pro Staff, competing, teaching and judging, at several Florida weekend WCS events, including Summer Swing Classic, Tampa Bay Classic, Sweetheart Swing Classic, River City Swing, Floorplay Swing Vacation, Orlando Jack n Jill Jam and the Big Event. They were frequently invited to teach workshops at local dances/studio’s and traveled throughout the state to teach workshop weekends for various Florida dance clubs and studios.
In this video Bruce and Beth Perrotta are shown competing at the 2006 Florida State Swing Dance Championships at the Floorplay New Years Swing Event in Orlando:
