Richard Powers

Richard Powers is a social dance instructor and historian at Stanford University’s Dance Division. Richard’s focus since 1975 has been the research and reconstruction of American and European social dance forms, working from a personal collection of over a thousand historic dance manuals.

Richard was selected by the Centennial Issue of Stanford Magazine as one of Stanford University’s most notable graduates of its first century, and was awarded the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for distinctive and exceptional contributions to education at Stanford University.

Richard has choreographed for dozens of stage productions, including Broadway and off-Broadway, and for films and television. He has taught over five hundred dance workshops across the U.S. and abroad.

Further information is at richardpowers.com.