RANDY ATLAS is an accomplished dancer and deejay in the Swing and Hustle dance worlds. He taught Swing, Ballroom, Latin, and Disco dancing to support himself through graduate school at
Florida State University, and eventually competed on “Dance Fever” in 1983, dancing Jitterbug Style Swing to “Jailhouse Rock.”

While, at Florida State, he formed the FSU Ballroom Dance Club and taught more than 5,000 persons how to dance. In 1999, he danced swing and salsa in the Miami Superbowl half-time Show with Big Bad Voodoo Daddies, Gloria Estefan and Stevie Wonder. Randy was president of the South Florida Swing Dance Society (SFSDS) for several years and assisted in bringing the SFSDS to the national spotlight with the development of the “Swing into Spring” dance weekend in March 1996 and 1997, which attracted more than 1,000 dancers from around the country each year. Randy has deejayed at the national dance conventions Dallas Dance on Labor Day Weekend for up to 2,000 dancers, the Sunshine State, Swing Fling in Ft. Lauderdale, the Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise, The Hollywood Blues Festival, The Riverwalk Blues Festival, Swing into Spring, Boopin on Beale Street in Memphis, and many of the SFSDS monthly parties. Randy’s unique mix of Swing, Hustle, and Latin dance music reflects the musical and cultural diversity required to thrive in South Florida.

In 1998, Randy created with partners Katie Marlow and Billy Fajardo, a new national dance event called the International Hustle and Salsa Competition (IHSC) which featured Swing, Salsa, and Disco/Hustle music and dancing
competitions. Randy has taught capacity filled workshops in Lindy style Swing, Salsa Casino and Hustle in South Florida and around the country and the world. Randy has trained with Frankie Manning, the founder of Lindy Style Swing, and he co-sponsored bringing Frankie Manning to South Florida for a Lindy workshop in October, 1998. During the peak of the Retro Swing craze, Randy was teaching Lindy Swing up to 1,000 people a week in seven local nightclubs. He has taught Latin Hustle workshops at the Chicago Salsa Congress, the Puerto Rico Salsa Congress, the Turino Italy Salsa Congress and The Marseilles France Salsa Congress. In recent years he has been staff of the “Hustle in Pompano” dance event, where he taught a unique, “Defensive Dancing” class, and helped judge the hustle dance contests. Most people know Randy for his role as a club/mobile deejay and dance instructor, but what most people don’t know is that he is also both a registered architect and a criminologist, and he has received his Doctorate of Criminology from Florida State University.