Dana is the CEO of the Kunze Entertainment Group, LLC, a company formed with business partner Dave Lindsay, who serves as President of the organization. Their mission is to revitalize the sport of professional high diving and to enhance the water show business through various media-related activities and enduring projects.
They have teamed up to spearhead an international collaborative effort to preserve and enhance the sport of Professional High Diving. In addition to the endeavors surrounding Dana’s NEW WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT, KEG is presently conducting an extensive series of videotaped interviews with legendary performers, comedians, athletes and Aqua Follies producers from as far back as the early 1940s for a series of TV documentaries. Those and other more in-depth stories will also be reflected in a series of upcoming books.
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The prominent list of Contributors & Participants to date includes:
Olympic Gold Medalists; Adolph Kiefer, Micki King & Cynthia Potter
US Olympic Coaches; Hobe Billingsley & Dave Burgering
World Champion High Divers; Dana Kunze, Dave Lindsay, Tom Gompf
Acapulco Cliff Divers; Rick White, Dene Whitaker, Victor Whitaker,
John Tobler, Dan Anthony, Donnie Vick & John Carney (Champ in 1976)
World Record Holders (highest dive); Dana Kunze, Dave Lindsay,
Don Columbo & Donnie Vick
Water Show High Divers, Performers & Comedians; John Bower,
John Carney, John Deininger, Lucky West & ‘Crazy’ Pete DiCroce
Water Show Producers; Norma Maxwell, Bob Kerper & Dana Kunze
Others; Bruce Wigo (ISHOF), Dick Gutting (World Acrobatic Society),
Stathis Avramidis (Greece) & young Jordan Windle (10 year old hopeful)
There are simply too many to list and more interviews are scheduled.
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A series of four books and TV documentaries are scheduled for development from KEG’s unprecedented video & audio archive. Some fabulous behind-the-scenes stories (hilarious, poignant and often very touching tales) are shared in a revealing narrative format by those who actually experienced them…
Olympic Gold Medalist Adolf Kiefer shares memories of meeting the infamous Adolph Hitler at the 1936 Olympic Games and racing “Sharky The Seal” in early-era water shows.
Olympic Coach Hobie Billingsley tells the emotional story of the tragic loss of his dear friend Bruce Harlan.
Olympic Diver Micki King sheds light on circumstances surrounding her Gold Medal presentation at the 1972 Olympic Games.
7x World Record Holder Dana Kunze tells the WHOLE enlightening story of the peculiar circumstances that led to the beginning of his career at the age of 13.
Water Show Comedian Johnny Bower tells how he barely escaped from an alligator pit filled with LIVE crocodiles at Silver Springs, FL…too funny!!!
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Click the link below to watch excerpts of our informal and unedited participant videos
"Video Teasers"
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Going Up!
Click to read the synopsis
Dana Kunze; Just for the Record
Dave Lindsay is authoring this enlightening biographical novel featuring intriguing insight into the life-history and remarkable career of Dana Kunze. The book, which is being promoted via the Kunze Entertainment Group, tells the incredible story of how Dana came to be America's High Diving Superstar and a bona fide Living Legend.
"Going up" is not yet scheduled for release, but will soon be available in hardcover & trade paperback online or at your local bookstore.
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Color Of Water
Click to learn more about this new book
The history of Professional High Dving & Water Shows
Dave Lindsay is writing this amazing book, which will depict an incredible behind-the-scense history of the sport of Professional High Diving and the Water Show business.
An extensive library of narratives from numerous and prestigious icons of the sport lead the reader through a compilation of "unheard stories".
Work is in progress, but a release date has not yet been determined.
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KEG Literary ProjectsClick to learn more about books in progress High Diving books written for the Kunze Entertainment Group and other Futuristic Fiction novels by Dave Lindsay
DL BooksClick to visit the DL Books website home of "Encore"
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