12 Facts About Pierre Dulaine

Pierre Dulaine was born on 23 April 1944 and is a dance instructor and dancer.

Pierre Dulaine founded Dancing Classrooms, a social and emotional development program for 5th grade children that uses ballroom dancing as a vehicle to change the lives of the children and their families.

Pierre Dulaine was born in Jaffa, British Mandate of Palestine in 1944.

Pierre Dulaine began his dancing career at the age of 14, and took his Associate Degree as a professional dancer when he was 18.

Pierre Dulaine took three further majors exams aged 21 and became a full member of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.

Pierre Dulaine moved to Nairobi, Kenya and worked for a year at the Nairobi Casino in cabaret with the Bluebell Troupe from Paris.

Pierre Dulaine then got a job at an Arthur Murray dance studio.

In January 1976, Pierre Dulaine became dance partners with Yvonne Marceau, who had arrived at the dance studio in 1973.

In 1994 Pierre Dulaine founded the Dancing Classrooms program for the New York City Department of Education.

Pierre Dulaine invented the "Dulaine Method" to encourage children to dance together.

Pierre Dulaine later travelled to Northern Ireland to teach the same program.

In 2011 Pierre Dulaine travelled to Jaffa, the city of his birth to teach the method and make the 2013 film Dancing in Jaffa.