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Mike Fulford, Executive Director

Mike Fulford

Michael Fulford is the Executive Director of the UGA Ballroom Performance Group. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and while there was a member of the BPG from 1992-1997. After graduation, Michael became the apprentice instructor for the BPG and taught at ballroom studios in and around Atlanta, GA.

Michael is an actor, dancer, choreographer, and singer. Some of his dance credits include performing at the Cloister with Ballroom Performance Group and being one of the original performers in Ballroom Magic. While a student at UGA, Michael competed in the USABDA Southeastern Ballroom Dance Championships and in the Atlanta Open Ballroom Competition. He placed 1st in many individual dance categories and finished in the Top Ten in the Open American Smooth Division.

Michael has choreographed a number of ballroom dance performances for the Ballroom Performance Group, musicals such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Baby, Company, and Oklahoma! He is thrilled to be back working with the UGA Ballroom Performance Group and promises that participants and audiences will be truly entertained by our amazing dancers.




Natalie Grier Cox, Artistic Director


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Natalie received her A.B. from the University of Georgia in 2003 and her J.D. from the University of Georgia in 2006. While at UGA, she was a member of the University of Georgia Ballroom Performance Group from 2002-2006 and served as president her last year.  Since graduation, Natalie continues to perform and teach with Contact Dance at Dancespace, The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education, and various other venues around Northeast Georgia. Notable annual performances include DanceAthens, the DanceFX Spring Concert at the Morton Theatre in Athens, Georgia, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.  Recently, she has had the great pleasure of working with Project Safe (www.project-safe.org) for their fundraiser, Dancing with the Athens Stars. 

Continual training is very important to Natalie; she annually attends dance camps such as the Adult Ballroom Camp at Brigham Young University and the Independence Day Ball Camp in Washington, D.C.  During her travels, she has had the great fortune of taking lessons from ballroom greats such as Ron Montez, Jean Marc Genereux & France Mousseau, Pierre Allaire & Mireille Veilleux, Karina Smirnoff, and Tomas Mielnicki & J.T. Thomas.  

When not dancing, Natalie is employed with Strickland, Chesnutt & Lindsay, LLP, where she handles Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions and Probate matters.




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