SOUL Dancer Kayak Lifes A beach Color.We've been working with the original mastermind behind the Dancer, Perception's founder Bill Masters, on this. Corran worked for Perception as a designer from 1987 to 1991. It had been his dream to work for the company that created the boat he loved so much and that he grew up paddling. Now, almost 40 years after the original Dancer concept was born, Bill has been going over with Corran what he was trying to accomplish with the design. Obviously times