The Ballroom Performance Group (BPG) is a pre-professional student dance company at the University of Georgia. The group promotes an appreciation of ballroom dance through performances on campus and around the community. The company was founded in 1991 by Dr. Mark Wheeler.

BPG hosts its annual showcase, "Ballroom Magic," the second semester of each school year. The show consists of between 20 to 25 choreographed pieces in Smooth and Latin dancing, along with guest performances. The majority of pieces in, "Ballroom Magic," are choreographed for and premiered at the show.

Mark Wheeler founded the University of Georgia Ballroom Performance Group in 1991. A professor in the UGA Dance Department, Wheeler received masters degrees in dance and in literature from Indiana University, a Ph.D. from Ohio State University, and also studied ballroom at Brigham Young University.

Outside the academic setting, he studied modern dance at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, jazz with Phil Black, Gus Giordano and Luigi in Chicago and New York, and tap with Michael Fredrics and Henry LeTang in Chicago and Las Vegas. In addition, he has acted, sung, and danced with Equity and non-Equity theater companies in and out of New York City.

At UGA from 1981 to 2014, he was published widely on dance history and on current trends in dance education. Pieces choreographed by Wheeler have been performed by university dance companies in California, Kentucky, New York, and Texas. Wheeler taught dance history, rhythmic analysis, methods for teaching social dance, ballroom, jazz and tap technique as well as guest taught in numerous dance programs including Columbia University, Vassar College, and the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, among others. We are forever grateful to Mark for creating this company and allowing it to grow to what it is today.