Kathy Hunyadi started her dancing career at the tender age of three as a ballet dancer. Soon discovering that tap shoes made a “great sound” she quickly switched, “much to my mother’s dismay”. Throughout the years ballroom, jazz and a long stretch of competitive synchronized swimming figured into the mix. She has been a line dance instructor since 1993, starting off as just a fill in instructor for K & K Entertainment (now Premier Entertainment). As Project Manager for the Cowboy Beat newspaper for two years, Kathy was in direct contact with the country music scene, interviewing artists such as Trace Adkins, Jeff Moore, Greg Holland and many others. Teaching line dance has become a passion. Several of her own dances such as MAX-a-mized, Bad Weather, and Frontier Breakdown, have been published in Step By Step, Country Dance Lines, the UK’s Linedancer Magazine and The Dance Card from Nashville. Tricky Moon, a dance choreographed for Capitol/Nashville recording artist George Ducas, was featured in Country Weekly Magazine. Two of her dances, Ghost Train and Come & Go Cha Cha, were featured on Volume 11 of Jo Thompson’s Dance Link video series. Ghost Train, Now or Never, Majik Touch, Slow Burn and Can’t Get Enough have been used as UCWDC competition dances. Now or Never was nominated for Dance of the Year by Linedancer Magazine in 2000. In 2002 and 2003 Kathy was nominated for two of the UCWDC prestigious Star Awards — “Favorite Female Line Dance Instructor” and “Favorite Line Dance Choreographer”. In 2003 she became a Certified Line Dance Sport Instructor. And in 2004 Slow Burn, co-choreographed with good friend John Robinson, was voted Australian Dance of the Year-Best Foreign Dance and Winner of the Pro-Choreography Challenge at the JG2 Line Dance Marathon.

Kathy is agent for the world-renowned choreographer/instructor, Max Perry. As Max’s long time companion and partner, she has been able to travel all over the U.S., Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore and Europe. She has taught dance classes at Yesterday’s Café, Fireside Inn, Pinecrest and numerous other clubs in CT as well as resorts in the Catskills, Poconos and the Hunter Mountain Country Music Festival. She has also, along with Max, taught in Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Scandinavia, Australia, Tasmania, Japan, Singapore and Estonia (where she was the first female dance instructor to tour the country). She has taught classes and judged line dance competition at UCWDC, Masters in Line, and other independent dance events and judged a CMT Dance Contest. She also served as Production Assistant on the Rick Tippe “Get Hot Or Go Home” instructional line dance video, and choreographed a dance routine for a contestant in the Miss Watertown, CT / Miss America Pageant. She was also one of the performers at the half-time show for the 1997 New Year’s Eve Orange Bowl game in Miami FL. Kathy can be seen on numerous instructional videos featuring Max Perry. Max and Kathy demonstrate the basics of “Hustle”, as well as line and partner dances.

“Dancing has become a way of life for me. I love all forms of music and dance. Whether it is country, rock, disco, ballroom or jazz. Just as long as the music gets people up on the dance floor, that’s all that matters.”

Max and Kathy reside in Ocala, Florida.

Kathy Hunyadi, 2843 SW 20th St. #8, Ocala Florida 34471, 352-854-0942, DanceOrDie@cox.net, www.maxperry.net