Paul Wagner has been a DCFF staff member off and on for many years. Paul has been dancing, teaching and enjoying folk dance for over 40 years. He currently is one of the leaders of the Eau Claire International Folk Dancers, and has been a member and leader of the Eau Claire international performance group and the Bistra Voda band.

In 2018, while temporarily working in New Zealand, Paul was a guest teacher at the Farandol Folk Dancers group in Christchurch, NZ. Though he teaches dances from all over the world, Paul especially enjoys the rhythms, music and dance forms of the Balkans. Paul is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.