Nathan Bugh is an expert in swing-era dances and methods. He performed with the Vanaver Caravan at the Rudolstadt Festival in Germany and in a televised concert in the Redlands, California. He danced Lindy Hop in Noemi LaFrance's site-specific odyssey, "Agora II.” He frequently performs for New York City organizations and has appeared in many of New York’s most exciting public venues, like Pier 54, The NYC Dance Parade, McCarran Pool, The Museum of Natural History, Battery City Parks Conservancy, Stuyvescent Cove Park, Lincoln Center, and Spiegelworld. The finest big bands, such as George Gee's Orchestra and the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, have featured him as dancer and instructor. He has shared the stage with the Tulsa Philharmonic and served as the coach of Oklahoma’s premier swing dance team, Perpetual Motion.

Most recently performed in the "Let Freedom Swing" a Celebration of America program sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center and held at Kennedy Center. It was part of the Martin Luther King day and 2009 Inaugural Festivities.

Nathan has been teaching professionally since 2000 and has taught
vernacular dance at the Frim Fram Jam, Swing 46, Oklahoma City Swing
Club, for the Houston Swing Dance Society, the Wichita S.D.S., U. of
Central Oklahoma Swing Club, U. Penn. Swing Club, at Cimarron Middle
School, P.S. 144, The Fieldston School, Tulsa Community College, and
gave Horizons seminars at the Juilliard School. He has been a guest of several artist-in-residence programs and currently teaches classes at Dance Manhattan, Columbia University Swing Club, and the Vanaver
Caravan Institute.

Bugh boasts 1st-4th place rankings in multiple Lindy Hop, Charleston,
and West Coast Swing competitions. He began his Lindy Hop training in
1998 with Tina Morales and Carnell Pipkin, and has studied tap with the great Robert L. Reed. Nathan holds a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma City University and a master’s degree from The Juilliard School.