Happy international DANCE day!!!
Take a minute to enjoy @addisonkay5 & @jakekepperr show you what it means to dance and entertain a crowd with class, elegance, style and sophistication while doing it “FULL-OUT with FEELING”!!!! Choreography by yours truly.
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#thefowlerfactor
I do not own the rights to this music. It is for educational purposes only.
My tribute to Rod McCune….❤️🙏🏼🕊️
I can’t believe I’m actually writing this, it seems unreal, but here it goes.
Around 1990 I went to a dancer/singer audition for a NJ Menlo Park Mall industrial show and first spotted Rod. We were the same height, the same look and talent so I knew he was my competition. We both made it to the end and as we walked out of the studio and down the street, we both stopped at a red light around Arriba Arriba in mid town and started chatting, “Hi, hi, I’m Scott, I’m Rod, you did great, yeah….you killed it too, you’ll book it…..nooooo way, you will”, the rest is history, we were just kids!!! We ended up both booking that job and then for the next decade and a half worked together constantly and became great friends and work colleagues. We ended up being bookends on most of the gigs we did, the Miss America pageant, the RCMH CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR, the MTV music awards were we danced as the ROCKETTES on the RCMH stage, countless industrial and award shows and three Broadway shows, AIN’T BROADWAY GRAND, SWING and ending with MOVIN OUT. Oh what a ride it was!!!
What I’ll say about Rod as a person is he was just lovely, always dependable, always reliable, incredibly funny and just someone you wanted to be in the room with. That’s why he worked so much. Besides being incredibly talented both as a dancer, singer and as an actor, he also was an incredible partner, and I’m sure every girl on Broadway at the time will agree with me that he knew how to take care of his girls!!!!
Rod was just the BEST at what he did and what he did was EVERYTHING. I believe he was the dance captain on most shows he did and literally could jump into any spot at any time and get the job done. He just was ALWAYS steadfast and on it.
as a friend Rod was just so caring, loving, patient and FUNNY, God did we LAUGH and I will cherish those memories forever.
I got to see Rod in December, something I’m extremely grateful that happened and will cherish forever. It was an incredible afternoon filled with every emotion you can imagine, but in the end, just love & trust between two old friends.
LOVE IS ALL AROUND YOU
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I love when I catch some on stage photos of some of the work I’ve created from this season!!! I do my best to screenshot them, here are a few I’ve grabbed from social media. It’s about the JOY of dance and the MAGIC we create together. Remember dancers….enjoy the journey, it’s a gift!!!
if any studio has pictures of their kids on stage doing one of my routines, please send them my way!!!
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Today has some extra magic because it’s our very own Scott Fowler’s birthday!🎂 We are so grateful for the magic you bring to LADM and all the dancers lives you’ve touched!
Join us in wishing a happy happy birthday to @scottfowler1967 🤩🎉 !!
#ladm #birthday #happybirthday #magicmoment #ladancemagic
As a dancer I’ve gotten to work with some of the true masters of our time, and now, as an choreographer and educator, I get to pass on what they taught me, it’s the greatest gift. I love the time spent in these studios that bring me in to choreograph on their students. To me it’s where the magic happens and where I get the opportunity to help them realize that dance is so much more than just steps. It’s a feeling a vibe a mood a chance to take the audience on a journey and experience that feeling we are expressing through our movement. I love this photo because it captures it, all of it, everything I try to instill in them. Freedom, joy, confidence, strength, beauty, independence, elegance, sophistication class, and pride fully embodied.
For years I got to feel the spotlight shine on me and now I get to turn that spotlight on the dancers I have the opportunity to work with, it’s pure joy.
Look at these dancers……simply stunning!!!
When I watched it live these dancers made me cry, so very proud.
Studio: @dancealliancesaline
Owners: @abclark611@ldclarkcomcast.net3
Photo credit: @sstormmedia
Dance: “A Tribute To Roberta Flack”
Choreographer: yours truly
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#thefowlerfactor
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LADM Pro Track @elainavarnold 💃🏻
LADM Pro assistant @jakekepperr 🕺🏻
Choreography by yours truly. 🎭
I always say a dancer is only as good as the choreography given to them and the choreography is only a good as the dancer doing it, it’s a two way street and a true collaboration. When both come together it’s magic, entertaining and just so fun to watch. THAT’S SHOWBIZ KIDS!!!
Enjoy the journey and do it “FULL-OUT with FEELING”!!!
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#thefowlerfactor
I do not own the rights to this music. It is for educational purposes only.
🇺🇸 Part 3/3 - The next week I mailed Thom a three page amends letter saying everything I ever wanted to say to him, letting him know exactly what and how I felt for him, the mistakes and missteps I felt I had made and my amends for my part in the destructiveness behavior which led to the end of our relationship. I also wrote that I had gotten sober and if he ever felt he needed help there was a solution and he could reach out to me.
He never did.
Less than a year later my AA sponsor called me to tell me that he had heard Thom had died. I had one of those moments you have when everything stops, even your heart beat, and you think “This can’t be true”, it was.
So here I am, it’s 2026. I’m now almost 22 years sober. I’m so grateful for that encounter at Eatwell and I’m so grateful that I know Thom got that letter I wrote him even though I got no response. He knew how I felt, he knew I was sorry, he knew I had changed and he knew there was a solution.
Thom passed at the age of 39 in 2006.
It is said we are only as sick as our secrets and Thom I feel had many. My belief and what I’ve learned is that Thom died due to a combination of his untreated HIV and his crystal meth addiction which led to a staph infection that traveled to his brain and became untreatable due to his compromised immune system.
It was a death that could have been avoided and that is the biggest tragedy of all.
I often wonder what could have been if he had reached back out to me. We both had demons, we both had secrets, we both did unkind things to each other, we both were so distracted from all the attention we were getting, we were young but had love for each other.
Happy Birthday Thom!!!
I’m sure there are many out there who loved you like I did.
You are remembered and I’ll never forget you … my first love.” 📖 by Scott Fowler @scottfowler1967 #whatisrememberedlives
🇺🇸 Part 2/3 - For years we would avoid each other when our paths crossed and both separately fell into the LA underground scene and drug addiction.
In 2004 we had an encounter at the Hollywood Spa, it’s a moment that I’ll never forget. I walked passed his room and with his door open, him lying on the bed, our eyes met. I stood there frozen and he too laid there staring at me for what seemed like a solid minute. We both said nothing to each other but it was clear what we were both thinking. How did we get here? How did this happen? What happened to the two of us? This wasn’t the plan! We were so young when we met yet there we were, exactly 10 years later, lost, high and both in the depths of our addictions. He slowly, with his foot, reached over from the bed he was lying on and closed the door on me … I let him.
That moment was gut wrenching.
Less than 6 months later I was given the gift of sobriety through an intervention by my family and a few close friends, my life forever changed.
3 months after that while eating breakfast outside Eatwell on Santa Monica Blvd. Thom pulled up and got out his car. I could tell Thom was not sober but was also not high and I could tell he knew that clearly something had changed with me. I got up and he came over and we said hello’s to each other, it was uncomfortable but also what we call a “God Shot” in AA … meant to be. I felt it was my chance to say something to him, to reach out, to make an amends. I asked for his address telling him I wanted to send him a letter, he gave it to me and I told him there were some things I wanted and needed to tell him. So much had changed in my life and it was time to make my amends to him. We had a moment, we looked into each other’s eyes and smiled, I saw the Thom I had met back in 1994. We hugged, tight, we kissed each other briefly and paused looking in each other’s eyes. It was all awkward and strange yet something I think we both wanted to do and feel.
That was it, off he went and unknowingly it would be the last time I would ever see him alive.
🇺🇸 Part 1/3 - “Remembering Thom Fleming (pictured right) on what would have been his 59th birthday.
They say you never forget your first love, I believe this to be true because Thom was mine.
We met on my first night of a weeks vacation in LA in 1994, we were both 27. I was with my best friend Tachi @tachi_taylor at The Rage when I felt a tap on my shoulder, I turned around and there Thom stood smiling at me. We chatted for a moment before Tachi and I headed down the street to The Revolver, 30 minutes later I felt another tap on my shoulder and found Thom standing behind me again smiling with those dark/sexy puppy dog eyes … the rest of the week I was his and it was magical.
Three months later I moved to LA telling people it was for my career but that was only half true, I moved there for Thom as well.
Our relationship was complicated. We were young and at the time both getting a lot of attention and easily distracted. He was a player with a lot of secrets and I was no angel myself but the truth is when we were alone, in each other’s eyes and in each other’s arms it was just so special. I felt I got to know and learn about a part of Thom few got to see and he also with me. Our fears, our dreams, our hopes and our love. His letters, notes and cards I still have and cherish, his words thoughtful, clear, sweet.
We saw each other on and off for years, each having other relationships, affairs, hook ups during that time but always finding our way back to each other … for a month, week, weekend, night. This lasted for about 5 years until the hurt, pain and lies of our outside distractions became bigger than our connection to each other.
In honor of last nights Super Bowl and Bad Bunny’s message of “The only thing more powerful than hate is Love” I pulled up my Super Bowl commercial from 1999 for Hormel 🌶️ with the lovely @mamacina !!! Oh what a ride it’s been. Enjoy the journey and let’s LOVE the hate OUT!!!!
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