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We have been organizing dance cruises since 2003. Our business grew so rapidly that Vivian closed her dance studio in 2016 to focus 100% on dance cruises and cruises for dancers. We call a cruise a dance cruise when we escort the cruise and arrange for private dance events for our customers. However, most of our customers are dancers, so if you book with us, you will probably be traveling with dancers.
We are experts in luxury travel, especially with companies like Cunard and Crystal, who have ballroom dancing, dance teachers, and dance hosts on many of their cruises. We can book you on any cruise line and will help you find a compatible cabin mate if necessary. Our customers become our friends and see each other over and over again, as we cruise and dance around the world.
Our Staff:
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Vivian Beiswenger, Owner, Director, and Travel Agent: After more than twenty years in corporate management at a Fortune 500 company, Vivian started her dance studio, the Ballroom, Latin & Swing Dance Center, and shortly after opened her travel agency under the same name, BLSDC. She was a long-time volunteer of USA Dance and organized many dance competitions for them. In 1997, as Senior Vice President of USA Dance, she chaired the National DanceSport Championships. Today, her full-time focus is on dance cruising. She is a "commodore" with both Cunard and Princess Cruise Lines. She escorts eight to ten cruises per year (sometimes accompanied by her husband, Barry, or her dance partner, Joe Closs), but she organizes hundreds of other groups every year. She has one son and two adorable granddaughters. |
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Lori Molyneaux, Office Manager, and Travel Agent: Lori had varied business experience before coming to work at BLSDC part-time as Vivian's assistant in 2014. Fairly soon after, she switched to full time and was promoted to Office Manager. Lori keeps the office running smoothly, especially when Vivian is working from a ship. She occasionally escorts a cruise when we can spare her from the office. She has two sons, Kyle and Erik, in addition to being a doting grandmother to five grandchildren. Lori does a great job of covering the office, sometimes seven days a week, while caring for her special needs son. |
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Kim Zellers, Kim has been an Emergency Medical Technician for 40 years while working in the service business, managing an industrial health center servicing over 1000 employees.
Kim (formerly Kim Carr) was also the Central Director for the State of PA in the Search and Rescue Council. She formed and managed White Deer Search and Rescue, Inc. since 1991, She was the primary trainer for all the search teams' K-9s. Most were airscenting search dogs, however Kim went on to become a Cadaver Dog Handler and Cold Case searcher with her dogs, Bullett and Bella. Kim and her husband. Curt share their home with MacGyver and Maizy, two beautiful German Shepherds d Tulip, her foster fail puppy. They live in North Central PA. She and Curt, share six children.
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Luanne Phillips, Luanne comes to us with a well rounded skill set after numerous years collaborating with Fortune 500 companies on the design, development and deployment of payroll, work force management and human resource software.
Luanne enjoys teamwork, is enthusiastic about travel and has a passion for dance that started at age seven with ballet and tap and she has been dancing ever since, adding ballroom as an adult. She is an elected member of the Board of Directors and volunteer Treasure for a local social chapter of USA Dance, Inc. in Charlotte Harbor, FL, where she lives in the winter months (she is not a fan of snow and ice). She also lives in Montgomery County, PA, enjoying holidays, changes of seasons and spending treasured time with son Christopher, daughter-in-law, Angela and granddaughter Ava Rose.
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