Mike Fowler has been teaching people how to dance since he was about 18 years old, and now at age 62, he still gets great satisfaction in helping people learn how to move to the music.
He spent the first part of his career — more than 20 years — with Fred Astaire Dance Studios. He started at a studio in Birmingham but then opened his own studio in Tuscaloosa and later bought studios in Mobile and Montgomery.
Around 2006, he sold his shares in those three studios, went independent and opened Magic City Ballroom in Cahaba Heights…